h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What for, exactly?

Oh, just wondering if you had a CD with the old Soviet national anthem.

Ermm, how about a 78?

Ah, don't have anything to play it on. Why don't we just sing it together?

"Soy'ooz neroosh'imi resp'ooblik svob'odnikh
Splot'ila nav'eki vel'ikaia Rus
Da zdr'avstvooyet sozdanni voley nar'odov
Yed'ini mog'oochi Sov'etski Soy'ooz

Sl'avsa ot'echestvo n'ashe svob'odnoye
Dr'oojbi nar'odov nady'ojni opl'ot
P'artia L'enina, - s'ila narodnaya
Nas k torjestv'oo kommun'izma vedy'ot"

(For the benefit of those in the shop who only like to hear English , this means:

Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics,
Great Russia has welded forever to stand.
Created in struggle by will of the people,
United and mighty, our Soviet land!

Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!

)

Makes me feel so patriotic!

Sounds so much better in Russian! But what's that strange accent you sing it in? Sounds faintly familiar!

Oh, yes, I forget you may not be familiar with it!

It's from the Mor'Een region of Saaf-LanDin.

Interesting. Is it a dialect spoken by many people? Or just a few stupid ones? ( )

Oh, it really is a sign of *intense* stupidity!

Hmm reminds me of someone I used to know. Before the purges, that is!