So yesterday Isaac, Dave, Dr. Buffington, and I visited the US Embassy in Moscow. It was a very cool experience. After initially having to wait to get through a bit of security we were met by Morgan Haas an Agricultural Attache for the embassy. Then we ate dinner in the embassy's food court which had an amazing spread of food, and many of us were delighted to find the best hamburgers, pizza, and even donuts we had eaten in four months. They did taste a bit ironic though. After eating Morgan and one of his colleagues talked to us for about two hours on what they did and how they worked to meet the US government's needs in Russia. Overall a really good experience. Also, stock photo because we were not allowed to bring cameras inside the embassy so we ended up leaving ours at home.
I am so glad you all got to visit the embassy. By the way, how did Morgan and his colleague taste? Commas, Joey, commas! No wonder the burgers tasted ironic.
ОтветитьУдалитьSee this Web site, which is where I got the joke below... (also, there is a popular book with the same name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_&_Leaves
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
'Well, I'm a panda,' he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots, and leaves.'