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Building Up On Humour

To add to the funny moments here is a rather blurry photograph (sorry!) taken at the Antique Salon in October 2012. When wandering through the splendid displays I caught the shelf where an antique bookend stood. To indicate the way it should be used, the owner of the stand, not thinking much, stuffed a DVD there instead of a book. Maybe he’d forgotten to bring a book, but so better for our story. So it came out that two warriors used their shields to support a DVD with a TV miniseries “Likvidatsia” (Liquidation) starring the world-known Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov. This was a serialised story of the crime fighting in the Ukraine in the post-war period, and Mashkov’s character was a chief of criminal investigations.

Just another proof of how popular this series has been since 2007 – the DVD even graced the Antique Salon.

Mashkov-Gotsman at the 33rd Antique Salon in Moscow

 

How the World Was (Not) Ending

It is an historical anecdote that around the year 1000 the pious medieval Christians willingly gave up their possessions to the Church, fully expecting the world to end the moment the clock struck 12am on the first day of the year 1000.

A thousand years later nobody seems to be donating their goods to either Church, or state, or any cause or person. Instead there was this burgeoning curiosity – will the Mayans be correct or will they be wrong. I suppose we know the answer, although a Russian newspaper printed an article claiming that one Russian scholar deciphered the Mayan prophecy “correctly”, and the real end of the world is looming on December 23.

Considering that December 23 is the last day for buying Christmas gifts, it’s safe to predict that in certain parts of the world the traffic will be collapsing thanks to all late shoppers.

In the meantime, here is a Someecard on the subject:

someecards.com - Just a heads up that your panic about a Mayan doomsday sounds insane even to Mayans.

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