Diamonds are girl's best friends:
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Wrong - but then - we are going to economy! =))

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But... If she can afford such kind of car - she can probably afford a personal driver/bodyguard as well. And such car calls not just for a bodyguard or two, but for SWAT team on a heavy SUV or even M2 Bradley :))
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Funny enough Oksana is driving by herself.
Bodygards? What for? Чужие здесь не ходят (с)

up-up:
http://www.reginabrett.com/blo ...

Excellent stuff Ctervotochinka
To all girls
Many happy returns of the day!
Be happy and irresistably attractive!;-))

Дамы - с 8 марта!
Ну и по теме ветки...

Forget the pain...
Whatever you can stay,
Equality - this does not mean a bit,
We ARE "the different":
" The creatures under God"
And to fulfill - we staying in the rain.

The rain of tears - of Pain and of The Love,
Of Happines and Destiney - the equal.

But what I want - to kiss your lips My Dear,
And I don't think WHAT is - is going further.

Ээээ, Леди - Вы как бы не судите строго - там размер как бы меняется, но вот
так вот попытка просто ВАС поздравить.

На английского стихосложенца я явно не тяну.

Happy 8 of March, dear girls!
Many happy returns of the day.
And also many flowers and a lot of love!

Dear girls, ladies, missis, miss, ma'ams, wives, girlfriends, coworkers, roommates and other Significant Others...
Happy March 8th! Dealing with us - rude, crude and socially unacceptable creatures, released by God just as a beta version of a true human, takes a lot of strength, patience and faith. The Universe would be much better organized without a man - but, unfortunately, you need somebody to love. So do we.

A Woman's Prayer:

I pray for:
Wisdom, To understand a man.
Love, To forgive him and;
Patience, For his moods.
Because if I pray for Strength
I'll just beat him to death.

Thank you sooooooooo much, boys !It's a privilege to have you here. Just to hear your
poems and prayers - at least once a year!!!

Hello to all!
Back on track! Will download here some pictures if you are interested.

Островитянину: зато с каким чувством написано поздравление! Thanks a lot!!!

Опять старая проблема. Ведь правильно device isn't working, the server isn't working, потому что аппараты работают сейчас, но не доступны как сервис. Ведь неправильно the server doesnt work? Или я уже всё забыл. Насколько помню, doesnt work применимо к работе человека в фирме, т.е. работает вообще, а не работает в настоящее время...

А вот настоящее продолженное используется как раз иногда вместо обычного, только уже забыл когда.

Новичок
-курсант Галинка-былинка


Островитянину: зато с каким чувством написано поздравление! Thanks a lot!!!
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You are mostly welcom, Lady. =))

Опять старая проблема. Ведь правильно device isn't working, the server isn't working, потому что аппараты работают сейчас, но не доступны как сервис. Ведь неправильно the server doesnt work? Или я уже всё забыл. Насколько помню, doesnt work применимо к работе человека в фирме, т.е. работает вообще, а не работает в настоящее время...

Is not working - не работает в данный конкретный момент времени. Does not work - не работает и работать не будет, пока не будут приняты какие-то меры (синомимы: екнулся, гикнулся, накрылся медным тазом :))
Обычно вместо is not working используют is not available или еще какой синоним. Our service is not available until 6AM tomorrow, sorry for inconvinience. Вообще, is/are - это не только данный момент, но и ближайшее, но определенное будущее. We are meeting tomorrow at Murphy's Pub at 7PM. Do/does, в отличие от - или что-то постоянное, или желание подчеркнуть свою позицию. We do not tolerate sexual harrasment in the office - не терпели, не терпим и никогда не будем терпеть.
А вообще, в корпоративной переписке эти вещи перемешаны сплошь и рядом. Причем клиентам пишут is/are по поводу негативных вещей (мол, это временное, и мы над этим уже работаем), а по поводу позитива - исключительно do/does :)))

Snafu
А вообще, в корпоративной переписке эти вещи перемешаны сплошь и рядом. Причем клиентам пишут is/are по поводу негативных вещей (мол, это временное, и мы над этим уже работаем), а по поводу позитива - исключительно do/does :)))

Спасибо. Вроде бы учил и знал уже, но забыл.

Насколько помню, doesnt work применимо к работе человека в фирме, т.е. работает вообще, а не работает в настоящее время...

А здесь может быть и так и так. He works with us for 3 years или He is currently working on Marketing Director position. В обратном смысле тоже два варианта - He is not working with us anymore и He does not work with us anymore. В первом случае легкое сожаление (может еще вернется), во втором - удовлетворение (избавилисть от козла, и слава богу).

Васк with you!

'wing flap seal' - what's it? It fell off the a/c on landing.

Без контекста не скажешь. Wing Flap - понятно что закрылок. А вот Seal - это печать, контровка, пломба, изоляция, заглушка, обтюратор, гидравлический затвор... А также морской котик, тюлень и спецназ ВМФ США :)

Well, I think that Snafu did all his best with the "seal" Vocab...can't add anything more!

However, here is a bit of a monologue from an allien, the so-called Venus type representative, just to tune you all into the weekend sling..

The Bathing Suit (by a middle-age woman unknown)


When I was a child in the 1950’s, the bathing suit for the mature figure was-boned, trussed and reinforced, not so much sewn as engineered.
They were built to hold back and uplift, and they did a good job.


Today's stretch fabrics are designed for the prepubescent girl with a figure carved from a potato chip.



The mature woman has a choice, she can either go up front to the maternity department and try on a floral suit with a skirt, coming away looking like a hippopotamus that escaped from Disney's Fantasia, or she can wander around every run-of-the-mill department store trying to make a sensible choice from what amounts to a designer range of fluorescent rubber bands.


What choice did I have? I wandered around, made my sensible choice and entered the chamber of horrors known as the fitting room.
The first thing I noticed was the extraordinary tensile strength of the stretch material. The Lycra used in bathing costumes was developed, I believe, by NASA to launch small rockets from a slingshot, which gives the added bonus that if you manage to actually lever yourself into one, you would be protected from shark attacks. Any shark taking a swipe at your passing midriff would immediately suffer whiplash.

I fought my way into the bathing suit, but as I twanged the shoulder strap in place I gasped in horror, my boobs had disappeared!

Eventually, I found one boob cowering under my left armpit. It took a while to find the other. At last I located it flattened beside my seventh rib.



The problem is that modern bathing suits have no bra cups. The mature woman is meant to wear her boobs spread across her chest like a speed bump. I realigned my speed bump and lurched toward the mirror to take a full view assessment.


The bathing suit fitted all right, but unfortunately it only fitted those bits of me willing to stay inside it. The rest of me oozed out rebelliously from top, bottom and sides. I looked like a lump of Playdough wearing undersized cling wrap.


As I tried to work out where all those extra bits had come from, the prepubescent sales girl popped her head through the curtain,
"Oh, there you are, " she said, admiring the bathing suit.



I replied that I wasn't so sure and asked what else she had to show me. I tried on a cream crinkled one that made me look like a lump of masking tape, and a floral two-piece that gave the appearance of an oversized napkin in a serving ring.

I struggled into a pair of leopard-skin bathers with ragged frills and came out looking like Tarzan's Jane, pregnant with triplets and having a rough day.



I tried on a black number with a midriff and looked like a jellyfish in mourning.

I tried on a bright pink pair with such a high cut leg I thought I would have to wax my eyebrows to wear them.

Finally, I found a suit that fitted, it was a two-piece affair with a shorts-style bottom and a loose blouse-type top. It was cheap, comfortable, and bulge-friendly, so I bought it. My ridiculous search had a successful outcome, I figured.

When I got it home, I found a label that read, "Material might become transparent in water."

So, if you happen to be on the beach or near any other body of water this year and I'm there too, I'll be the one in cut-off jeans and a T-shirt!


Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain, with or without a bathing suit!


Women are angels...and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly on a broomstick.. We are flexible like that!

Snafu, спасибо за версии.

Там и контровка присутсвует, которая, как я понимаю, сломалась от перезатяга в процессе эксплуатации. Вот что она контровала? Заглушку? Lockwire, опять же, мне очень интересно. А контекст - вот он:

The aircraft had landed in Kelowna seemingly without problems when a passenger reported he had seen a part fall off the aircraft upon landing. A runway inspection recovered a wing flap seal from the runway. The Canadian TSB reported maintenance identified the "RH Inboard aft flap outboard lower bulb seal" had separated from the aircraft. That seal is normally retained with lockwire which was found "work hardened" and failed. The part was re-installed, a service difficulty report will be submitted.

А, теперь понятно. Это уплотнение, закрывающее щель между закрылком и крылом при убранном закрылке. Улучшает аэродинамику на крейсерских скоростях. Судя по фразе "RH Inboard aft flap outboard lower bulb seal", там многосекционный закрылок с целой системой уплотнений. Наверняка есть какой-то специальный термин, но я его не знаю.

ZILANT

http://prikol.i.ua/view/145225/
13/03/2012 [20:05:38]
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Thanks!
a kind of "upper class" communication..))))

Из игрового чата:
: - Hi guy. You whence?
: - I not speak english!
: - A-a, Russia! Vodka, bears...
: - You right, gandon, and still Kalashnikov and Topol-M...

Oh, this sweet Russian accent! yes, we know..)))

- Which watch?
- Six watch.
- Such much?
- Whom how.
- MGIMO finished?
- Asked...

Hi Snafu
This joke has got its own history...))

This joke has got its own history...))

"Хорошо выдержанный баян становится классикой" (с) :))

Seal - это печать, контровка, пломба, изоляция, заглушка, обтюратор, гидравлический затвор... А также морской котик, тюлень и спецназ ВМФ США :)

Mila Love
Well, I think that Snafu did all his best with the "seal" Vocab...can't add anything more!

I can:

S- Sea
E- Earth
A- Air
L- Land
= SEAL

Стервоточинка
I can:

S- Sea
E- Earth
A- Air
L- Land
= SEAL
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You certainly can! and have done it beautifully!

Snafu
- Which watch?
- Six watch.
- Such much?
- Whom how.
- MGIMO finished?
- Asked...

The original lines come from famous "Casablanca". ))))

A b s o l u t e l y. SEALs or Navy SEALs - Sea, Air and Land team, an acronym for US Navy special forces. "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday".
A new movie "Act of Valor" has been released about three weeks ago. Anybody got a chance to watch?

http://actofvalor.com/
http://www.youtube.com/results ...

Snafu
...A new movie "Act of Valor" has been released about three weeks ago. Anybody got a chance to watch?

I am waiting when my husband will return from his business trip to watch it! He is in London right now.
They say it is a "big propaganda" and advertising of NAVY movie. We've seen its trailer so far.

Well, all of such movies are "propaganda" of this or that sort, on both sides of the Iron Curtain. I'm pretty sure that you remember "Случай в квадрате 36-80" or "Одиночное плавание". But it's nice to watch it anyway.

I’ve recently come across a very interesting way to say that a pilot is no longer flying and I'd like to share it with you, guys:
"he hung up his wings"
sounds great. or maybe too romantic?

Wow!
Thank you for this topic. Now I have one more way to improve my english!
But while I was writing this massage I did a lot of mistakes.
And I still don't know where they are.

just a reasonable sum of money and I'll tell you

The most valuable currency - BIG thank you!)))))

Mirage,
First of all - English is very respectful language, so please start it with the capital E.
Also, massage is very good thing (especially the thai one), but you probably meant 'message'. A proof word is 'mess', because most of the messages contains just a mess and nothing else ;)

Speaking of so-called Venus type representatives...


Moon is slowly rising, and the town is drowsing,
But the crooks are meeting in the night,
We're the Urkagani, mean and tough and scrawny,
For our kind of deeds we need no light.

Our chief she is a looker, goes by the name of Murka,
Crafty and audacious as a guy,
Even the toughest bosser knows better than to cross her,
While we rob and steal and eye her on the sly.

All at once we're wound up, there's a police roundup,
Lot of us get chucked into the can,
How'd they come to raid us? Which one has betrayed us?
Who's the stoolie that tipped off the Man?

First things first, I'm thinkin', let's do a little drinkin',
We drop in the Shikarni restaurant,
There sits Murka chatting, and so gently patting
A police agent's hand ---- what more d'you want?

Down in that dark alley where we used to dally,
Back in that tiny cul-de-sac,
Okay, this is it, man, who will be our hitman
To go and take down Murka in this whack?

Hello, darling Murka, hello, you little smirker,
Hello, darling Murka, aren't you sly?
You're the damned impostor, you're the double crosser,
You've betrayed our gang, I wonder why.

Murka, I don't get it, how'd you come to let it
Happen? Damn, I dressed you like a queen,
Wedding ring and bracelets, sexy skirts and jackets,
What kind of gold-digger have you been?

You used to wear revolting galoshes that were molting,
You carried a bucket in your hand,
I gave you black market high heels like a starlet,
Patent leather, of the Bolshoi brand.

Now, my darling Murka, now, you little shirker,
You've been such a mistress of disguise,
You have plowed us under, it's your final blunder,
Here's a bullet right between your eyes.

The black raven's dying, and my heart is crying,
And my thoughts are screaming in my head,
In this very alley where we used to dally,
Murka lies all crumpled, cold and dead.

Murka, there you're lying, take your sweet time dying,
In that lousy trenchcoat like a sack,
There's our darling bleeding, not what we were needing,
Off we go, not even looking back.

about aviation or, at least, avis:
http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8/

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

And here he comes! Come in, St Patrick! Vivat Ireland!))))Vivat Guiness!...

It's Saturday night, drizzle and dark outside, the cats are sleeping cosily by my side and I am just listening to Melanie C..

So I found a reason to stay alive,
Try a little harder, see the other side.
Talking to myself -
Too many sleepless nights,
Trying to find a meaning to this stupid life.
I don't want your sympathy,
Sometimes I don't know who to be.
Hey what ya looking for?
No one has the answer -
They just want more
Hey who's gonna make it back?
This could be the first
Day of my life

So I found a reason
To let it go
Tell you that I'm smiling
But I still need to grow.

Will I find salvation in the arms of love?
Will it stop me searching? Will it be enough?

I don't want your sympathy.
Sometimes I don't know who to be.

Hey what ya looking for?
No one has the answer, you just want more
Hey who's gonna make it back?
This could be the first day of my life.

The first time to really feel alive
The first time to break the chain
The first time to walk away from pain

Hey, what ya looking for?
No one has the answer - we just want more
Hey, who's gonna make it back?
This could be the first day of your life.
Hey what ya looking for?
No one has the answer they just want more...


Hey, who's gonna shine a light?

This could be the first day of my life...

and a bit more...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

Брюс Уиллис в 1996 году снялся в фильме, известному у нас под названием "Герой-одиночка"

Оригинальное название - " Last Man Standing "

Переведите плиз доступно

Last Man Standing - Последний на ногах

Авторитет
Last Man Standing - Последний на ногах
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хммммммм .......

"Последний оставшийся", "Последний выживший", "Тот, кто остался", "Тот, кто выжил", ну и далее в том же духе. От идиомы "Fight until the last man standing" - сражаться до последнего.
Вообще, названия (и не только фильмов) никогда не переводятся дословно. Уже потому, что в название стараются впихнуть два-три смысла, и при переводе это обычно пропадает. Вот для примера один из моих любимых фильмов, Cutaway:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt02 ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...
Попробуйте подобрать адекватный русский перевод :)