Things were so bad in Siberia...

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...that, as we had only one cube of sugar, we would put it on the shelf and watch it while drinking our tea.

― moley, Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Husky meat was prized. 'Never name your dogs, lest someday your tears salt their tender cuts' was the saying.

― moley, Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this was going to be a stencil thread.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 22 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

....that i eventually got the train outta there, Krasnoyarsk to Nizhny Novgorod...

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 22 May 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

That even when I went to Khabarovsk I froze to death in the Amur on the warmest day of the year.

― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

'Catch the string' was a pastime of the children. One child would trail a string or thread, and the other children would try to step on it. And so the darkest months were whiled away.

― moley, Sunday, 22 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

gregory hines performing porgy & bess to a small crowd of russians in White Nights = best siberia joke ever

― jones (actual), Sunday, 22 May 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Young girls would rub vodka on their ears and cheeks to simulate erotic embarrassment.

― moley, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

i jsut remember why i dont want to read any more murakami

― 696, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I had a great great uncle who was sent to Siberia for revolutionary activities of some sort - this was pre-USSR and apparently they just made you live in a cabin and fend for yourself. He actually came back healthier than he left.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

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