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

*brushes away cobwebs*

*coughs*

*helps herself to a cup of from the samovar*

I'm curious about the 'smith' - how on earth did you come to that conclusion from learning my RL last name?

Actually, I hate to say it but it was a joke. It's one if the most common surnames here, or we think it is.

Is that the derivation then?

Rauta = Iron

*takes another sip*

I'm trying to remember a Russian expression I've come across somewhere in the past - although it might be 'kitchen Russian' just like 'njet ponimai' - something most of the elderly generation of Finns know how to say, but it's hardly grammatically correct, is it?

The trouble is I can't remember the first two words, it's hearing the third that triggered my memory.

The first word rhymes with the third, and the one in the middle is, I think. Russian for 'and'.

Trabota

Heyup. I'll ask B.

How you?