"All words are symbols that represent unspeakable realities. Which is also why words are magical." (Donald Miller tweet)

Saturday, April 12, 2008

eezveenetya, pazhalsta

I don't laugh much at movies. I laugh inside, if they're funny. But not out loud. Most movies just aren't that funny.

But last night, there was a movie on TV, and I mostly got hooked into it because the beginning was all in Russian. I was listening to see if any of the words spoken were on the list of 9 Russian words that I know. (I do that with The Hunt for Red October too.)

And they were, by the way - "Eezveenetya, pazhalsta!!" Anyone know what that means? I do! I've said it, in Ukraine. And I even got an appropriate response to it from a stranger. But I digress.

The movie was The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

And I laughed, and I laughed, and I laughed. All by myself. Mostly at the crazy little tourist town that panics so thoroughly for little to no reason. Oh my. That is ONE FUNNY MOVIE.