1. "RE: Our Witches at War Ep. 1"
In response to message #0
>Ivan Ivanovich - This joke is based in reality: early Soviet >spacesuit tests really did involve an instrumented crash test dummy >masked with a warning sign reading MAKET, so that peasants who might >run across it wouldn't mistake it for a dead or injured cosmonaut, and >the people who worked with it did nickname it Ivan Ivanovich ("John >Johnson").
Ivan Ivanovich is also the RSO (Russian Standards Organization) Standard name for the idiotic bureaucrat who's obstructionist not out of malice, but because it policy to do it this way, and he has all the human understanding of a rock (and that may be unfair to the rock).
-Z
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