What's with the "In Russia" jokes?

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klah

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There was a show in 1986 called "What A Country" with a Russian actor named Yakov Smirnoff. He made statements such as "In Russia, phone company call YOU for information" and "In America, you jump the shark; in Soviet Union, shark jumps you". This has been mocked throughout the years on other shows such as the Simpsons. Recently it began appearing at fark and quickly spread to neffers on message boards around the internet.
 
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hamburglar

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this russian thing is NOT funny. everybody is trying to use this as their joke. its just the same thing repeated 50050000 times. get some of your own creativity.
 
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LordMaul

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Originally posted by: hamburglar
this russian thing is NOT funny. everybody is trying to use this as their joke. its just the same thing repeated 50050000 times. get some of your own creativity.
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In Russia, creativity gets YOU!
 
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Martin

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Originally posted by: klah
There was a show in 1986 called "What A Country" with a Russian actor named Yakov Smirnoff. He made statements such as "In Russia, phone company call YOU for information" and "In America, you jump the shark; in Soviet Union, shark jumps you". This has been mocked throughout the years on other shows such as the Simpsons. Recently it began appearing at fark and quickly spread to neffers on message boards around the internet.
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I first heard it on Family Guy. Peter had just brough a new Benz with GSP voice-enabled system that could be used in several different accents.

So when Peter showed Loise the Russian accent, the car said "Fork in road ahea. In Soviet Russia, road forks YOU"

cracked me up the first time I heard it :)
 
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Goldfish

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It started at somethingawful, like most of the comedy here and at the crazy OCP place, it's recycled, burned out SA comedy. SA forum goers started using this phrase with regularity, it died out, and since the userbase between SA and forums like AT and OCP overlaps so much, it carried over. Same with "tl, dr" etc.

Find your own funny.
 
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Entity

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Originally posted by: Goldfish
It started at somethingawful, like most of the comedy here and at the crazy OCP place, it's recycled, burned out SA comedy. SA forum goers started using this phrase with regularity, it died out, and since the userbase between SA and forums like AT and OCP overlaps so much, it carried over. Same with "tl, dr" etc.

Find your own funny.
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As already pointed out, SA didn't start it either.

Rob
 
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Goldfish

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SA didn't start or make up the phrase, and that isn't what I said. I said SA started using the phrase with regularity and then it spread.
 
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SerraYX

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Originally posted by: Goldfish
It started at somethingawful, like most of the comedy here and at the crazy OCP place, it's recycled, burned out SA comedy. SA forum goers started using this phrase with regularity, it died out, and since the userbase between SA and forums like AT and OCP overlaps so much, it carried over. Same with "tl, dr" etc.

Find your own funny.
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I've been meaning to get an SA subcription..
 
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Goldfish

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Many of the forums are viewable now for unregistered users, get a chance to see if you like it or not.
 
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