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This sounds more like gossip than an entry. Should it be removed? Maxim isn't noted for its scholarly reviews.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.17.205.130 ( talk) 23:45, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Someone needs to tell Yakov Smirnov that Ali G is ripping off all his schtick. -- M.Neko 00:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia helps the world change YOU! -- aparapal —Preceding comment was added at 14:25, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
O.D.!-- Krashlia ( talk) 03:15, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
I suggest we split off the Russian reversal section to make it easier to email the link to people. We can always use transclusion to make the section appear to still be here. What do you all think? -- unforgettableid | talk to me 17:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Great idea!!! -- 82.101.190.184 18:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I agree :) I agree, but I think the article should be called In Soviet Russia, maybe In Soviet Russia (joke), as that is what it's best known as I would have thought. Nuge talk 12:00, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I was looking for this on Wikipedia, as I thought it would have an article, and eventually found this one. I earched for "Russian Reversal", as thats what I thought it was known best as. Born Acorn 23:10, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I agree, we should split to a new article called "Russian Reversal (humor)" or "In Soviet Russia (humor)" :)
DJLarZ 21:54, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes, please split out.
Yes to split. -- TheTruthiness 02:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes -- Sillybulanston 23:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes -- Luigivampa
Yes damnit yes. But Russian reversal should do - no need for the "(humor)" part. What else could be called Russian reversal? As a matter of fact, Russian reversal already re-directs here. Jobjörn ( Talk | contribs) 01:16, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes to splitting, though "In Soviet Russia" is the more familiar term to me. -- Grace 04:57, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes... although, in Soviet Russia, article splits YOU! -- Bobak 22:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes. The article should split, with the actual title of the article being "Russian reversal", but I also think that "In Soviet Russia" and "In Soviet Russia (humor)" should redirect to "Russian reversal" to ease finding the article in the first place. > Iridescence < ( talk )( contrib ) 05:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
yes to the split -anonymous
yes to the split, it would also be better if more "in Soviet Russia" jokes were included in the article - Ariel
Yes, but I say we create a new article and leave this section here. -- Snake712 05:02, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, Russian reversal is often mentioned in popular culture, it's important enough. -- Rake 01:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I agree to split the comment since it has become a phenomena apart from yakov. I came here looking for it and did not find it by typing "soviet russia". had to goggle to get here. -- Xenocidic 20:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes! to the split -- Smileman66 20:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
In the US you split articles, in Soviet Russia article splits you! Definetly Yes! evil_oatmeal 16:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, and I vote for "In Soviet Russia" for the title -- Caleb 19:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree, I imagine most visitors to this page are looking for the "In Soviet Russia stuff..."
Yes: I agree to the split Dfrg.msc User talk:Dfrg.msc 09:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I think this should be split. -- Psiphiorg 15:16, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, and use transclusion, and call the article Russian reversal, with a redirect on "In Soviet Russia" -- Quintopia 17:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
See it here. (I've fixed redirects)
1947 Rand HUAC transcript of possible interest: ...Mr. Taylor is an American who came there apparently voluntarily to conduct concerts for the Soviets. He meets a little Russian girl [...] He asks her to show him Moscow. She says she has never seen it. He says, "I will show it to YOU." http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/texts/huac.html—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.223.242.38 ( talk • contribs)
I think this article should include the best one: "Roses are red, violets are blue, in Soviet Russia, poem writes you!" Grsz11 ( talk) 05:25, 26 January 2008 (UTC) In America you catch train In Soviet Russia train catches YOU!!! Sioraf ( talk) 01:37, 21 September 2008 (UT
I took out one of the two russian reversals, because they display the exact same joke with different words. and they are not yakov jokes, and yakov jokes, and have no place here except to tickle the author of them 71.62.245.166 ( talk) 17:10, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
I edited the "Family Guy" reference to fit the actual quote from the episode, I happened to be watching that particular episode while reading this article Parcanman ( talk) 00:20, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Do all of Smirnoff's "In Soviet Russia" jokes date from the time that the USSR still existed - if so then presumably the Big Brother one isn't by him, since the TV series didn't exist in 1991. MFlet1 ( talk) 09:45, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
The Russian Reversal section mentions that it is a type of Chiasmus, but the Chiasmus page says that there must be no repetition of words. Since Russian Reversals frequently do repeat words, it would be what the Chiasmus page calls a Antimetabole instead. But the Antimetabole page says that a Antimetabole is a special case of Chiasmus. So either a Chiasmus does not repeat words, or else it sometimes does and is called something else because it's a special case. In any event, the actual Russian reversal page never mentions a Chiasmus at all. Moose Hole ( talk) 19:59, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Lollerpedia is dead. Not only that, but the cache is dead, too. Should we get rid of it? -- User:Thematrixeatsyou/sig 04:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
In Crimes of the Hot Fry cites Yakov Smirnoff's phrase "That ice dispenser is so big, the ice crashes you.". Leela claim that he didn't say that. --Yuriy Lapitskiy 21:09, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Someone added, someone removed... Why is that? I liked that idea and added that numbers to the russian interwiki page, what should I do with them know? --Yuriy Lapitskiy 22:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
-- In Soviet Russia, phone number errase YOU! (sorry, I couldn't resist. I'll see myself out) Allthenamesarealreadytaken ( talk) 07:22, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Part of this article is from here. It says nothing about the text as far as I could find, but I'd just like to bring this up. TέΉ ѕΡίɗΣR ( ŢάḶκ | ÇόηṬŕĺβs ) 06:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
The first sentence of this article says that Smirnoff is "according to his own description, a Ukrainian-born American comedian and painter". Why the "according to his own description"? Is there doubt about whether he is actually Ukrainian-born? Actually, I question whether his own description is that he is Ukrainian-born, since his official site refers to him as "famous Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff". [1] -- Metropolitan90 05:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
The Russian reversal page should be redirected to Yakov Smirnoff, at that page the only content there is a definition and a trivia section. There is already a definition at the Yakov Smirnoff article, and the addition of a trivia section does not make a good article. The manual of style also suggests avoiding trivia sections, and without that the only content there is pretty much redundant to what is here. Also the entire russian reversal page is solely sourced to two wikis, one of which is a satire and comedy site Uncyclopedia,while being funny, it also becomes inimical to reliable sourcing. -- MichaelLinnear 19:55, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I'd very much like to continue to be able to reference the russian reversal, without having to link to some comedian my readers aren't interested in, and won't at all help them understand the russian reversal. -- 213.235.202.173 09:08, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Under Russian reversal only examples of online communities using russian reversal are shown, no examples of TV shows or movies are given although it is stated that russian reversal appears in "television parodies", perhaps some examples should be added? The only one I can think of is when Family Guy made a reference to it in the episode "There's something about Paulie" from season 2, Peter's new car says such things as "In Soviet Russia, car drives you" "In Soviet Russia, road forks you" etc. Some feedback on this would be appreciated, I'm unsure of whether this kind of information is worth a mention. -- Marshmellis ( talk) 06:14, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
'nuff said. I'm off to suggest this become policy. -- 66.129.135.114 ( talk) 21:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
If there is a groundbreaking Russian reversal joke generator available on the internet, should it not be linked to in the "Russian Reversal" section of the page? 72.241.252.97 ( talk) 01:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
I can't seem to fix the image size and formatting. Can someone look at the code and fix it? Bearian ( talk) 13:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
was it also on family guy that it said:
It is a bit jarring to see Yakov Smirnoff's nationality referred to as "Ukrainian Jew". His national origin is Ukrainian; his ancestry is Jewish. This is like claiming that the nationality of Barack Obama is "African-American". He is black, but that doesn't mean that's a property of the country he comes from. I can understand that Nationality: Ukrainian; Race: Jewish would be even more bizarre and objectionable by current standards, and perhaps changing "Race" to "Ancestry" or even "Ethnicity" wouldn't fix it entirely.
Of course, this is a general question, and does not apply to only this one article. 75.158.3.244 ( talk) 18:32, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Does anybody else think that this guy looks like a Russian version of Ray Stevens? Jdaniels15 ( talk) 19:59, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Nice article ya wrote Yakov. (By party?) Now can someone else write it instead? Tapered ( talk) 02:50, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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