Like my friend, J.P., I was more than a little dumbstruck after watching the following clip from Russian television promoting a contest where women can call Caps winger Alex Ovechkin in hopes of getting married:
I really want to write some more, but I'm not sure where to start. I'll just keep my comments to noting that we shouldn't be surprised if average Russians have a distorted view of life in the USA.
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8-14-2008 @ 11:36AM
Randy Kim said...
The American girl wearing a Texas A&M jersey? Crawling out of the pig's butt? "You are my temple of poetry"? Speechless.
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8-17-2008 @ 1:37PM
Jeremy said...
did that just really happen
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