Author Topic: Randomex's Random Thread of Random Randomness (Read 51727 times)

Kobe Bryant · « **Reply #40 on:** December 16, 2020, 08:10:01 PM »

Quote from: Randomex on December 15, 2020, 06:54:37 PM

The apple and pear trees blossomed,
Clouds and fog spread over the river.
Out for a walk on the banks was Katyusha,
On the steep, sharp bank of the river.
Softly, softly, she walked along,
And remembering, she burst into song
About the blue-colored eagle, so brave and so strong.
About the one she is waiting for,
About the one whose letters she reads again and again.
Eagle, remember the simple girl,
Pilot, remember your promise so true.
Guard and defend the native soil
And Katyusha will be faithful to you!

(Song popular in Russia circa WWII, trans. Chaim Shapiro)

Quote from: Randomex on December 16, 2020, 07:11:09 PM

Artillery men! Stalin gave the order!
Artillery men! The Fatherland is calling upon us!
From a hundred thousand batteries,
For the tears of our mothers!
For our Fatherland!
Fire upon the enemy!

(Russian military song from WWII era, trans. Chaim Shapiro)

Sounds like Russian disinformation...

yungermanchik · « **Reply #41 on:** December 16, 2020, 08:31:08 PM »

Quote from: Randomex on December 15, 2020, 06:54:37 PM

The apple and pear trees blossomed,
Clouds and fog spread over the river.
Out for a walk on the banks was Katyusha,
On the steep, sharp bank of the river.
Softly, softly, she walked along,
And remembering, she burst into song
About the blue-colored eagle, so brave and so strong.
About the one she is waiting for,
About the one whose letters she reads again and again.
Eagle, remember the simple girl,
Pilot, remember your promise so true.
Guard and defend the native soil
And Katyusha will be faithful to you!

(Song popular in Russia circa WWII, trans. Chaim Shapiro)

Quote from: Randomex on December 16, 2020, 07:11:09 PM

Artillery men! Stalin gave the order!
Artillery men! The Fatherland is calling upon us!
From a hundred thousand batteries,
For the tears of our mothers!
For our Fatherland!
Fire upon the enemy!

(Russian military song from WWII era, trans. Chaim Shapiro)

@Randomex Are you in the process of reading "Go My Son"?

Kobe Bryant · « **Reply #42 on:** December 16, 2020, 08:34:25 PM »

Quote from: yungermanchik on December 16, 2020, 08:31:08 PM

@Randomex Are you in the process of reading "Go My Son"?

Trying to make sense of the randomness?

yungermanchik · « **Reply #43 on:** December 16, 2020, 08:35:45 PM »

Quote from: Kobe Bryant on December 16, 2020, 08:34:25 PM

Trying to make sense of the randomness?

It just doesn't seem so random

Randomex · « **Reply #44 on:** December 16, 2020, 11:09:06 PM »

Quote from: yungermanchik on December 16, 2020, 08:31:08 PM

@Randomex Are you in the process of reading "Go My Son"?

No, I just wanted to post those. I might also post "Wide Is My Native Country," having just discovered
that I can see page 30 on Google Books (my family's copy is missing everything before page 31), and
perhaps the then-new national anthem (both of which are most definitely Russian disinformation).

Randomex · « **Reply #45 on:** December 17, 2020, 07:23:44 AM »

Randomex · « **Reply #46 on:** December 17, 2020, 08:52:59 PM »

The asterisk in my current signature is because I had to modify the quotation to make it fit the signature size limit.

Randomex · « **Reply #47 on:** December 17, 2020, 08:58:17 PM »

The way I work things like this, and this is why I will never amount to
anything in my life, is I have those ideas, and then I get very focused
on something like, "Well, what would the font I use be?" - Dan Hughes

I used to think I didn't like music, but in actual fact,
I just don't like '80s music, and I grew up in the '80s.
- Dan Hughes

(Not one of the Dan Hughes that you find by casually Googling.
His Twitter handle is dghughes28, but it's deactivated at the moment.)

Randomex · « **Reply #48 on:** December 17, 2020, 09:29:38 PM »

Translation by Chaim Shapiro. An alternate translation is available here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_is_My_Motherland

You can also read about the other songs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_(song)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Artillerymen

(Also featured in Go, My Son:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Is_the_Night_(Soviet_song) )

Randomex · « **Reply #49 on:** December 20, 2020, 11:42:15 PM »

Randomex · « **Reply #50 on:** December 21, 2020, 06:39:02 AM »

Randomex · « **Reply #51 on:** December 30, 2020, 08:42:58 PM »

Randomex · « **Reply #52 on:** December 30, 2020, 08:46:47 PM »

Thanks to Googling to find this thread, I now know that this exists:
https://www.lustria-online.com/threads/the-random-thread-of-random-randomness.22570/

Euclid · « **Reply #53 on:** December 30, 2020, 08:57:55 PM »

Quote from: Randomex on December 30, 2020, 08:46:47 PM

Thanks to Googling to find this thread, I now know that this exists:
https://www.lustria-online.com/threads/the-random-thread-of-random-randomness.22570/

The rich get richer.