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From: alexei@hagar.ph.utexas.edu (Alexei Beklemichev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: zagadka
Date: 24 Dec 92 19:42:31 GMT
Organization: Institute for Fusion Studies, UT-Austin

Merry Christmas!
	I have decided to contribute a new topic to the discussion of
Rculture,S namely, the folklore of funny "exam" questions going around
in the russian scientific community. Its range is from real serious
questions with real (but non-boring) answers, to "zagadki" for first-
graders. Here is an example brought by my brother from the Steklov Math.
Inst. in Moscow (I do not know its real origin, it even might have been
already published somewhere):

One day came Ivanushka Durachok to Zmey Gorynych and challenged him for
a combat (he wanted to free some captive maiden in distress...) 
-- This is going to be a battle of wits, said Zmey, and I will set the
rules as follows:
   There are 10 wells with enchanted water in my garden, and though the
 water seems ordinary, whoever drinks of it turns into a frog (in a 
 little while). But the water of each well with higher number can act
 as a counterspell for the water of wells with lower numbers. (Say,
 if you drink once from the well No.3 and then from the well No.6, you 
 will survive. There is no remedy for the water of the 10th well.)
   We will go in the garden, in secret fill our glasses with water, and 
 then each will take a drink from the glass of another. Then we are 
 free to go and drink all we want, BUT, my servants will prevent you 
 from approaching the 10th well, which I reserve for my exclusive use
 (Zmey was'nt a fool.)
-- Agreed, said Ivanushka (he was a fool, after all), and everything
went according to the rules.
   In a little while, to the general surprise and consternation of
the public <vsego chestnogo naroda>, Zmey Gorynych became a frog, and 
Ivanushka married the princess (and they lived happily ever after.) 
   Question: how did this occur? 
   Remarks: Zmey was'nt a fool; there are no other poisons and counter-
spells around; solution does not involve little green men from Mars, etc.

This zagadka is a little bit too long and involved, but you will be
really pleased if you arrive to the answer by yourself (this is also
a good test whether your solution is the real one; my friends liked it.)
Happy holidays! 
					Alexei Beklemishev.
From: schoinas@fox.cs.wisc.edu (Yannis Schoinas)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Bulgarians, Bosnians, and Croats (was re: Will Russia stand beside Serbia?)
Date: 22 Dec 92 06:48:34 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

>In article <1h3p3oINNb1a@agate.berkeley.edu> 
>muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:

>>In article <1992Dec20.154305.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> 
>>mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:

>MM:
>>>Now, if you talk about "Slavic brothers", then don't include Bulgaria in this
>>>list, for it's a common mistake to call them Slavic, while they are not Slavs
>>>at all.  The other point is, that Serbs are not the only Slavic people of
>>>x-Yugoslavia.  What about Bosnians and Herzegovinian, along with Croats?  Well,
>>>Croats are Muslim, but they still Slavs, and the obligations of Russia toward

>YM:
>>Let others correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Bulgarians slavs? I would like
>>to see some more arguments against this. They were concurred by Bulgarians from
>>Volga, from whom they inherited the name and about nothing else, but who of
>>slavs was not?

>Bulgarians are an authentic thorn in the side of the Baltic fascists:
>Orthodox Christians, speaking a Southern Slavic language, but descended
>from an ancient Finnish tribe, who conquered the Slavs of Moesia in the
                 ^^^^^^^
>seventh century C.E.; the facts are well-known, and incontrovertible.

I will not go into the discussion of the blood of the modern Bulgarians but
the Bulgars were a turkic tribe. Of course, if you take into account the 
relationship between turkish and finnish you can talk about common uralo-altaic 
ancenstry.

>YM:
>>As for Croatians, aren't they Catholics. It's Bosnians who are Muslims, aren't
>>they. It's true that Bulgarians and Serbs, beeing Orthodox were closer to Russia
>>then other Slavs.

>Correct.  Croats have the One True Church written all over them.
>Bosnians are the descendants of the urban elite, who were converted to
>Islam by their Ottoman Turkish rulers.

In case you didn't know, something similar to the assimilation of the
Bulgars by the Slavs must have happened with the Croats too. You see
the very name of these people is of turkish origin(Krobat). In fact,
a creation myth of the Croatians involves 2 brothers and 3 sisters with
slavic as well as turkic names. Since no historical trace of this process
is known(as in the case of the Bulgarians), it is believed that this must 
have happened long before they came to the Balkans. Perhaps while they were 
passing through central Europe.

					 Bye,
					Yannis.
From: mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re:    . .
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:24:33 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

In article <15301.2b45e1bd@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
> andrey@leonid.stavropol.su (Mishchenko Andrey Leonidovich) writes:
> > ....deleted....
>
>   q PRINIMA@ PRIGLA[ENIE.
> zAPI[I MENQ W SWOE WOJSKO.
> 
> s nOWYM gODOM, aTAMAN.
> 
> kOZAK sEREGA

A suka!!! Ispugalsia!!!  Reshil v Stavropol' sbezhat'?  Ia tebia, kozla, i 
tam tostanu!

Necha s"ebyvat'sia, koli kashu zavaril.  Budem drat'sia kak vzroslye: na
palkakh!!!

National Guard

Michael Martynov.
From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Bulgarians, Bosnians, and Croats (was re: Will Russia stand beside Serbia?)
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:57:43 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK

In article <1992Dec21.033927.18749@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
>Bulgarians are an authentic thorn in the side of the Baltic fascists:
>Orthodox Christians, speaking a Southern Slavic language, but descended
>from an ancient Finnish tribe, who conquered the Slavs of Moesia in the
>seventh century C.E.; the facts are well-known, and incontrovertible.

The facts are well-known and incontrovertible, except the above
contains three grave errors: (1) the Proto-Bulgars were not a Finnish
(or even Finnic), but a Turkic tribe, (2) they came to the south side
of the River Danube as settlers, not as conquerors, and they became
allies of the Slavic population in their struggle against Byzantium,
and (3) since the Slavs were much more numerous than the Bulgars,
present-day Bulgarians are descendants of the Slavs to a much higher
degree than they are descendants of the Bulgars.

-- 
 `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
Ivan A Derzhanski  (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)    Gospel)
* Centre for Cognitive Science,  2 Buccleuch Place,  Edinburgh EH8 9LW,  UK
* Cowan House, Pollock Halls, 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh EH16 5BD, UK
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg)
Subject: Re: FAQ
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:51:08 GMT
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In <1hatrqINNkdi@agate.berkeley.edu> muh@physics1 writes:

> Yury M.
> 
> Disclaimer: I'm nobody's phylologist.
                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sorry, but you should write either ``philologist'' or ``logistophyl'' to
sound more literate :-)

Cheers,

Greg
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.europe
From: Sorokin@ps1.iaee.tuwien.ac.at (Sorokin Zhenya)
Subject: Results of WW II (was: Russian speakers in Estonia)
Organization: Inst. of General Electronics and Electroengeneering, TU Vienna
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:56:41 GMT

In article <Jan.2.18.07.20.1993.13432@pilot.njin.net> hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) writes:

>
>One can see similar (economic) expansions in this century. The
>defeats inflicted on Japan and Germany did not permanently
>halt their progress, whereas some nations which did not
>enter WWII are still behind. And some nations which won
>WWII are still lagging behind.
>

Just to start new discussion:

To my mind, the results of the WW II are really very controversal.

Losers:
1. Balts, Poland, Tschecho - Slovaks, Hungary (obvious).
2. ALL USSR nations, because of concerving of a pre-war society (do I need 
to characterize it?) + enormous losses.
3. Eastern part of Germany (losses + communism).
4. Yugo nations except for Serbs. Interesting, that for Croats all possible 
ends of war were bad: back under Serbs or fascist Ustascha state.

Participants with  almost zeroed net outcome (*moderate* material damage and 
human losses):
1. Italia.
2. Romania and other Balkan states. 
3. Serbia.
4. Austria.
5. Other european nations to the south, west and north of Germany.
6. Asiatic countries except for Japan.
7. Finland.

Winners:
1. USA.
2. Western part of Germany. They got rid of a fascist regime and made an 
enormous jump to democracy and welfare under US rule: it would have taken 
decades to do it alone (as it did in case of USSR, and the result is not 
clear yet). The price, however, was also enormously high.
3. Japan. It is fantastic, but current Japan is exactly the country of 
victorious national-socialism in Hitler's sense. The only thing they failed 
to do is territorial expansion. 
4. European neutral states, especially Switzerland.


>
>	mark	
>
>   hubey@amiga.montclair.edu         hubey@apollo.montclair.edu
>   hubey@pilot.njin.net               ...!rutgers!pilot!hubey    

SIncerely,
Sorokin Zhenya
Vienna, Austria.
From: acs_anshakov@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: RUSSIAN ROCK
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:05:01 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls


HI, PEOPLE !

I COULD SEE THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE AROUND WHO ARE REALLY
INTERESTED IN RUSSIAN MUSIC (ROCK, BURDS). WE ALL KNOW
THAT IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET GOOD RUSSIAN
STUFF IN U.S.. SO, MAYBE, IT WILL BE A RESONABLE PROPOSAL 
TO DO AN EXCHANGE OF TAPES BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED
IN THIS KIND OF MUSIC ? WE ALL CAN BENEFIT FROM IT.
ANY IDEAS ?

REGARDS,
MERRY CRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR !

IGOR
V GLUSHI VISCONSII
From: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Boris Grebenschikov
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:16:56 GMT
Reply-To: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Followup-To: soc.culture.soviet
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Dec20.024119.2266@panix.com> jackz@panix.com (Evgueni Zabokritski) writes:
>In article <LEONID.92Dec19131458@tuna.uchicago.edu> leonid@tuna.uchicago.edu (Leonid Andreev) writes:
>                    ..................
>>Well, "Gorod zolotoy" ( City the Golden ) - as for this one,
>>nobody really knows, where it comes from. Bob used to refere
>>to it as to "narodnaja", but this piece of lyrics is pretty 
>>strange just for a folk song. Do you know anything about
>>it's origin?
>
>Well, I guess I will be the 1001st to point out that the author of this
>lyrics is Alex Hvostenko, AKA Hvost.

I did some nivestigation a long time ago, as far as I recall
results were the following:
Text resembles some medieval christian poet ( I saw reference somewhere),
which in its' turn is done after ... "Yerushalaim shel Zahav" - 
by a wonderful Jewish medieval poet - Yehuda Halevi 
(  Heinrich Heine has a poem about him - old (190..) Russian edition
by Veinberg(?) has it).

Yerushalaim shel zahav (Jerusalem from gold, bronze and air) is
partly adopted and added by Naomi Shemer and is a popular Israeli
song, you could here it - can somebody with better musical talents
than me can compare 2 songs - although why should be the same after all..

Other hint about connection Grebenchikov with Yehuda Halevi
(which actually triggered my interest in this question) is
Lion and Oven (?) mentioned there - these are signs of the tribes of
Yehudah and Benjamin, Yerushalaim was built on the border of these
tribes.

If somebody can post Grebenchikov text - I'll try to find other
hints of "hidden Jewish agenda"

Cenya

p.s. sorry for all Russophiles, who loved this song (:[
From: muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Communism as a Russian guilt (racist conception)
Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:38:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics1.berkeley.edu

In article <kosinov.725057990@ceg.uiuc.edu> kosinov@ceg.uiuc.edu (Greg Kosinovsky) writes:
>  So now I return to my question which Mr. Mukharsky mocked: Can anyone name me
>any book -- written in Russian, Kalmyk, Native Papuan, or anything else -- which
>dealt with a life of a Soviet 

Landau, by Anna Livanova. 
V Kruge Pervom, by Solzhenitsyn.
....
These what came to mind, I usually do not care about nationality of characters
that much, but just open some book in Russian and read it. You'll find couple
of Jews there, in 50% of them. So what? 

Yury M.
From: 11856DAU@msu.bitnet ("Joe.Daubenmire")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE
Date: 27 Dec 92 13:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

PLEASE remove my name from this list

thankyou

joe daubenmire
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg)
Subject: Re: Communism as a Russian guilt (racist concepti
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:48:14 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <1992Dec23.182121.18805@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@brauer.harvard.edu writes:
> 
> 	Well, Rybakov wrote "Tyazhelyi pesok", haven't he?

Yes he did wrote "Tyazhelij pesok."

> 	Kanevskii is a great Latvian (or Lithuanian) Jewish
> 	author. He writes semi-surreal (like Altist Danilov)
> 	prose about Jewish life in Baltics, before and after
> 	Soviets. L'vov is Soviet author who wrote about
> 	Odessa Jews, and his novel Dvor is quite good.
> 	He emigrated, and live in America since.

Vecheslav  Kanevskii is a Lithianian  Jew. You probably  mean his brilliant
novel  "Svechi na vetru"  which was  published  around 1982  (in Russian, I
mean).

> 	Naturally, as Yiddish is dead language in USSR,
> 	they used Russian. Note that Jews were assimilated
> 	on big part and (like Pasternak and Galich)
> 	became great Russian writers.

This is true only  for Jews who  lived in large cities  (like Pasternak and
Galich).  A lot  of old  people in  small  settlements   ("mestechki") know
Yiddish (well, if they still live  there and not yet repatriated to Israel,
I mean :-) ).

> 	Misha.

Greg
Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:11723 soc.culture.europe:10938 talk.politics.soviet:10130
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.europe,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Bilingualism
Date: 2 Jan 93 11:15:06 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

Tanel Tammet (tammet@cs.chalmers.se) writes:
>IF you make Russian as a second official language, you will
>not get a happy coexistence, but a dominance of Russian with
>increasing attacks of Estonians against this dominance, with
>counterattacks, etc.

Are you sure that not making Russian an official language will
give a happy coexistance? That, if anything, looks like a recipe
for trouble.

>Considering foreign politics, this will seriously simplify 
>reconquering Estonia by Russia.

And so will not making Russian an official language.

The best recipe for making Estonia a difficult conquest is to
make everyone in Estonia be against any reunion with Russia,
which is achieved by making Estonia a state of prosperity,
wealth and freedom. And you can only reach this if you work
hard - Estonians and Russians together. But if you disenfranchise
the Russians, why should they be interested in any sacrifies
for building the Estonian state?
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Jag gav en k{ck tjeck en check.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: thietaniemi@cc.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: The future of Russia: 4 alternatives
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:56:50 GMT

Who stole my subject? Here you are, in any case!

- Tapani Hietaniemi

Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:11756 soc.culture.europe:10966 talk.politics.soviet:10173
From: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Boris Grebenschikov
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:27:24 GMT
Reply-To: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Followup-To: soc.culture.soviet
Organization: Boston University

In article <BzL2xH.8DG@cs.columbia.edu> igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich) writes:

>as you rightly noticed, could not possibly be "folk" one. It is one of the
>parts in Kabballistic cosmogony, just put into verses. If anybody read "Altist
>Danilov", they will remember the part which the Blue Bull played there. It is the
>same one as "Sinii vol ispolnennii ochei". Anyway, bull, lion and an eagle go
>together trough a whole lot of cosmogonic concepts, not only the Kabbalistic one.
>
This sounds in line with  my guess, that the original is from
Yehuda Halevi.
Although I don't know, if he wrote anything kabbalistic (maybe due
to my ignorance), he for sure lived in the times and places, where
many of kabbalistic writings were created.

Senya
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: morgoth@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Scott M. Rogala)
Subject: Learning Estonian
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:57:05 GMT

Hi all!  I'm looking to learn Estonian and was wondering if anybody
could recommend any books or places where I could obtain books,
preferably with audio tapes, that could assist me.

Please send email to:
morgoth@titan.ucc.umass.edu
-- 
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Scott M. Rogala                          Internet: morgoth@titan.ucc.umass.edu
University of Massachusetts at Amherst             SCOTTRA@ids.net
"It may be that your purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.europe
From: phvas@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Vlad Soukhanovsky)
Subject: Dubovye anekdoty pro narkomanov
Summary: narkomafiya
Keywords: narkomany
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 03:34:01 GMT

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-- 
Vlad Soukhanovsky                            ,-_|\
phvas@marlin.jcu.edu.au                     /     \
see finger information for                  \_,-._/
further details                                  v
From: zmxc02@hou.amoco.com (Mike Center,PSC)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Christmas in Russia
Summary: In article 1hcjdtINNjb@quasar.genrad.com, rob@quasar.genrad.com (Robert S. Wood) writes:
Date: 24 Dec 92 15:47:45 GMT
Reply-To: zmxc02@hou.amoco.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amoco

>
>My son is 3 years old.  His first three years were spent in an orphanage
>in Magnitagorsk.  Would he have had any Christmas celebrations his
>previous 3 December 25ths?  If so what is a Russian word that he might
>remember?  He could not speak any language when I adopted him in Feb. 92.
>
>			rob@genrad.com


As you probably know, the former Soviet Union was a country with many religions,
all suppressed. Lately, however, people hav been free to worship. Your son was born
around the time that religion came into vogue. This however leaves one with the 
following question: What religion was your son born into or surrounded for the first
three years of his life. I am going to guess that he is Russian Orthodox, but he
could be Jewish, Muslim, Baptist, Roman Catholic, etc. If he is Russian Orthodox,
as most Russians are, he would have celebrated Christmas not on December 25th, but
on January 6th. The Russian name for Christmas is "Rozhdestvo Khristovo", or simply
"Rozhdestvo".  My suggestion, though, before you immerse your son in Christianity, is
for you to check with the authorities at the orphanage as to the religion of the boy's
biological parents.	

I hope this helps you.

Mike C.  
Keywords: 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich)
Subject: Re: Father Frost - the evil messenger of the Old Ones
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:50:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.020648.17088@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF) writes:
> In article <1hau4jINNitv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cl400@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Timothy Grall) writes:
> >
> >Can anyone enlighten me on this belief.  I read some time ago
> >that is the equivalent of our belief of Santa Claus.
> >
> Hmm... The best phonetic equivalent of Ded Moroz (Father Frost)
> is:
> 	DEAD MOROSE
> You can figure out yourself how much may this guy have in common
> with Santa. However, some people claim that Santa is misspelled
> Satan.
> 
........................
> Merry Xmas....
> 
> :@) :@) :@) :@) :@) :@) :@)
> 

Actually, Santa Claus should read "Santana Class". He must be teaching guitar in
his spare time...

Happy Holidays, everybody! (Universal congrat)

--Igor P.
From: viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: BUYING RUBLES
Date: 24 Dec 92 18:26:33 GMT
Organization: Midwest Rat's Hole

In article <1992Dec24.104145.439@zooid.guild.org>, adam@zooid.guild.org (Adam Lawrence Salter) writes:
>In article <15205.2b371368@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
> viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>>In article <1h6b56INNnni@agate.berkeley.edu>, robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>>> I am collecting foreign currencies....if interested, please contact me
>>> by e-mail.                            
>>
>> And me is collecting local one as well...if interested, please contact me
>>by e-mail.                            
>>
>>Serega
> 
>   Well, I'll sell you a mint condition $100 bill for $1000. This may seem
> expensive but I'm sure you know what collectors will pay for items as rare as
> this! ;->
>                                                         adam

  I couldn't find proper words to express my limitless gratitude
for this royal offer. Sure I would be able to struck a deal with you.
Send me your $100 bill and I promise it will occupy a honorable place
in my collection. In my turn I will order $1000 in valuable goods
be delivered to your premises no later than you hit the bucket.

Serega
From: ingerman@milton.u.washington.edu (David Ingerman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: zadachka: pro bochky meda i lozhku degtja
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:30:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1hnv5qINNj43
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: milton.u.washington.edu

Nekto imeet bochky meda i banochku degtja. 
Vjisheupomjanutaja lichnost' zacherpivaet lozhku degtja
is banochki i bjilivaet (ili bjitrjakhivaet) eje v bochku meda.
Dalee vreditel' peremeshivaet soderzhimoe bochki i perelivaet
lozhku smesi nazad v banochku s degtem, posle chego peremeshivaet
soderzhimoe banochki. Upomjanutji prozes povtorjaetcja tri rasa (vsego).
Vopros chego stalo bol'she degtja v bochke ili meda v banke.
(imeetsja v vidu absoljutnji ob^em).

David.