This passage I just ran across in Simon Montefiore’s Young Stalin reminded me of the classic Monty Python skit….The book which recounts Stalin’s early days talks of one of his gangs of brigands and their poverty (page 130):
The Outfit was about ten strong, including the guntoting girls Patsia, Anneta and Alexandra. The gangsters lived in a couple of apartments, men on one room,,women in another. None of them read much except two of the girls. Mostly consumptive, “They were so poor that they often had to stay in bed because there were not enough trousers to wear between them.”
and here’s an excerpt from the script:
We used to have to live in a corridor!
Ohhhh we used to dream of livin’ in a corridor! Woulda’ been a
palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish
tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting
fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
it’s kinda fitting that you tagged this post ‘humour’ spelled in the british way since yet siting Monty Python
Comment by amuirin — January 3, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
yer.
you’re.
Comment by amuirin — January 3, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
Canadian spelling. Yaaar!
Comment by aos — January 3, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
lol
hi
Comment by amuirin — January 3, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
Timing is everything.
Comment by aos — January 3, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
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