"Rick Chappell" > wrote in message
...
> Back to tea glasses - I just can't help mentioning two of my favorite
> words, which are relevant he "finjan" and "zarf". A finjan is a
> handleless glass or ceramic container for drinking tea, and a zarf is
> a kind of metal holder for it. These are Arabic. I don't know the
> Russian, but I imagine that Sasha can tell us.

I am not very knowledgable about Arabic culture (Alas!) but I always thought
finjans are coffee cups. Israelis also call a large coffee pot (with a
bird-like beak and a metal handle a finjan. In Azerbaijzhan peopel drink tea
from small glass or chrystal glasses which have a "waist" which make them a
little bit like hourglass shape, but these are no finjan and they are not
used with any zarfs.
And these are just small pieces oif my ignorance for the mountains of your
wisdom. And Allah knows best.


> Alex Chaihorsky > wrote:
>> People use many of these, which are more like preserves than jams.
>> Real tea-drinkers wouldn't do that to a good tea. However there is one
>> popular anti-cold remedy - raspberry preserve with very hot tea right
>> before
>> bed that makes you sweat hard while you sleep and really helps to get rid
>> of
>> cold and wake up and go build socialist paradise like nothing happened.
>
> Well, that's the trouble with a socialist paradise - nothing ever
> happens (if I get a visit late tonight from a guy named Levrenti and
> am never heard from again, I'm counting on you to raise a fuss).

Rich, what the hell are you talking about? (BTW, Beria's name was LAvrenti,
not LEvrenti). You should read his son's book. Fascinating.

> Last, as long as I'm riding a train of irrelevance here, why would you
> say that Russian Jewish women drive you crazy? I'm married to an
> American-born but pure blooded specimen and (in case she's reading
> this) must say that she is as meek as a lamb. No trouble at all. My
> thinning hair, stagger, nervous tics, extreme reactions to loud noises
> and spontaneous weeping are all due to other causes.

I am very glad to hear about your happy marriage. If Her Highness would read
these lines of yours, I am sure you will be duly rewarded, your thinning
hair, nervous tics, etc. notwithstanding. Certainly we are not here to
accuse every lady of Hebrew descent of being an intolerable, loud,
opinionated, jewelry-greedy and loud (or did I mentioned loud before?).
However, for reasons unknown to me, among Russian women these treats are not
distributed evenly and are much more common among the descendants of former
Egyptian slaves. However we also have to say here that on the bed of
passion, Jewish women of Russia retain the ancient vigor which is not at all
tempered by post-Mosesqian piousness (due to growing up in an atheistic
society?) and can make you completely forget about the previously-mentioned
shortcomings. No need for home gym if you have one of these ladies share
your house. But I (as a Jewish boy) still very much recommend a Slavic
Russian lady with the eyes full of deep-gray pool waters, her heart made of
kindness and tenderness itself, her smile capable of stopping a raging water
buffalo. And yes, you will experience plenty of love and passion, but in a
less WWF manner
http://www.wwe.com/ You spontaneous weeping WILL go away. And may be even
you tic.
But nothing better than Russian Jewish wife if you want to better yourself,
be challenged, educated, learn how to expect a nuclear attack at any moment,
develop a feeling for threatening flying objects, fight ten adversaries
blind-folded and develop a stomach of pure iron. If you can withstand this
training for more than several years, all the Special Forces and Blind
Samurai in the world will be not good enough to wipe your ass. In skill of
which, BTW, you will also be thoroughly trained.

Sasha.