DeMotivators

[mh3kgt]

Kinda funny it's almost like saying "Pokemon village" but other than that I don't really get it

[IPD]

you guys need more history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kij%C5%8Fng-dong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Gun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_deception

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_tank

or for those of you with the attention span of a gerbil, watch the end of "blazing saddles". i swear, intellectual humor is a dead breed.

[AgentOblivious]

you guys need more history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kij%C5%8Fng-dong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Gun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_deception

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_tank

or for those of you with the attention span of a gerbil, watch the end of "blazing saddles". i swear, intellectual humor is a dead breed.

Please, I've heard they're selling plots on the moon for less. I got one right next to John Travolta.



http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...rm=Nerd%20Burn

[deadlylegacy]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Ya'll got trolled hard. Since it happened over a week ago I'll blow the secret. http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Has...look_more_like

[-dLs-]

-dLs-

[deadlylegacy]

wrong on 1001 levels.

p.s.

i call utter BS on the kinsey report. either that, or i'm a freak of nature.

Wait, so you're a gay dude with a small pecker?

[-dLs-]

In order to recieve a Darwin, one must die. I thought this was common knowledge?

And LOL at Frankie Muniz.

You are inncorrect...The darwin award goes to people who 'remove their genes from the gene pool' in sometimes 'death' incurred incidents. =] Its fun having a first name of Darwin.

-dLs-

[Telionis]

Potemkin villages or Potyomkin villages (Russian: Потёмкинские деревни) is an idiom based on a historical myth. According to the myth, there were fake settlements purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigory Potyomkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787. According to this story, Potyomkin, who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the monarch and her travel party with the value of her new conquests, thus enhancing his standing in the empress' eyes.

"Potemkin village" has also frequently been used to describe the attempts of the Soviet government to fool foreign visitors. The government would take such visitors, who were often already sympathetic to socialism or communism, to select villages, factories, schools, stores, or neighborhoods and present them as if they were typical, rather than exceptional.

Good God. I am a huge nerd and have a particularly large repository of useless or obscure historic knowledge in my head and even I didn't get this one. I knew of the practice by the Soviets, my parents actually spent time in such a fake village*, but never knew it by name. Your nerdiness must be epic!

* It was for some international Aerospace conference, and they were not fooled at all by the Potemkin Village. It was obvious as heck that the Soviet government had "borrowed" the best furniture and bathroom fixtures from neighboring villagers and tried to build the "conference facility" overnight. None of the stuff matched, even the bathroom fixtures were mismatched color and style wise.

They have some crazy stories from the trip too. One time the entire group was rounded up and got bussed two hours in the bitch black wilderness to some location that turned out to be Eastern Poland for what turned out to be a traditional Polish feast of some kind. The problem is, nobody bothered telling any of the visitors this, and being that everyone was an Aerospace expert, they were SURE they were being kidnapped. The Soviets also refused to let my parents leave early when my Mom got sick. Their visa said the trip was for X number of days, so they had to stay for exactly X many days, period! "If sick, visit Soviet Hospital" they said. Also they failed to heed the advice of my Dad's colleagues and bring American toilet-paper; bad idea! My Mom also got yelled at by the pilot of Aeroflot flight to Moscow when she had the balls to jokingly ask the pilot "Aeroflot boom?" with hand gesture of a crashing plane (she didn't know any Russian, but it was pretty obvious what she meant), he was not amused at all and started screaming at her in Russian, but also repeating "Aeroflot NO boom, NO boom!" a few times for her benefit. In her defense, the plane looked ancient and there were caged chickens in the passenger compartments. Crazy experience. One I'd never care to have personally.

[IPD]

you can thank unreal 2 for exposing me to the proper terminology. i always joked that my callsign would end up as either "decoy" or "potemkin" someday....

[xwire]

that is just crazy right there, never had the thought to jump off of my bike mid flight....