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CatmanV2

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Not worried about google. We are men (mostly, but I'm sure there are some ladies around) of honour. With a few notable exceptions :D
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zagatoes30

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OK an easy one for AndyK with his immense football knowledge

Didier Deschamps is the 3rd person to win the World Cup as both player and manager who were the other two?
 
Wanderer

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Diego Maradona and Jurgen Klinsmann? Fecking hope I'm wrong I've only got a question about Russian noun infections in the question bank.....
 
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CatmanV2 said:
I *REALLY* hope you meant 'inflections', although with the Novichok thing......

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I did! haha!

Was only regaling a Russian joke about their complicated grammar, the five pokers joke 'pyat kochergeri'

"The genitive plural of a noun (used with a numeral to indicate five or more of something, as opposed to the dual, used for two, three, or four) is a rather unpredictable form of the Russian noun, and there are a handful of words which native speakers have trouble producing this form of (either due to rarity or an actual lexical gap). A common example of this is kocherga (fireplace poker). The joke is set in a Soviet factory. Five pokers are to be requisitioned. The correct forms are acquired, but as they are being filled out, a debate arises: what is the genitive plural of kocherga? Is it Kocherg? Kocherieg? Kochergov?... One thing is clear: a form with the wrong genitive plural of kocherga will bring disaster from the typically-pedantic bureaucrat. Finally, an old janitor overhears the commotion, and tells them to send in two separate requisitions: one for two kochergi and another for three kochergi. In some versions, they send in a request for 4 kochergi and one extra to find out the correct word, only to receive back "here are your 4 kochergi and one extra." (In reality, a bureaucrat would likely resort to a trick like "Kocherga: 5 items"
 
CatmanV2

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Wow! I think you needed to be there ;)

I prefer the joke about 'Why do KGB agents go around in threes?"
'One can read, one can write and the other one is there to keep tabs on the two intellectuals.....'

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Wanderer

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CatmanV2 said:
Wow! I think you needed to be there ;)

I prefer the joke about 'Why do KGB agents go around in threes?"
'One can read, one can write and the other one is there to keep tabs on the two intellectuals.....'

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Or Neil Armstrong telling deliberately cr@p jokes about his moonwalk and getting no laughs and then saying "Guess you had to be there..."
 
zagatoes30

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OK in the sprirt of question of the day and keeping things moving.

The other person to win a world cup both as player (1958 & 1962) and manager was Mario Zagallo (1970) of Brazil.

As Markmas got Beckenbauer the baton will be passed to him
 
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