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by mc32 1626 days ago
For those unaware, this is in the form of the old Radio Yerevan joke:

Question to Radio Yerevan: Is it correct that Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev won a luxury car at the All-Union Championship in Moscow?

Answer: In principle, yes. But first of all it was not Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev, but Vassili Vassilievich Vassiliev; second, it was not at the All-Union Championship in Moscow, but at a Collective Farm Sports Festival in Smolensk; third, it was not a car, but a bicycle; and fourth he didn't win it, but rather it was stolen from him.[1]

[1]http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000810.h...

2 comments

This was hilarious, thanks for sharing.
usually abbreviated to just ".. and haven't won but rather lost"