Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from 09.12.2018 01:22   
      
    AK>> Well, once I have found the most stupid question asked on Earth --   
    AK>> to ask a drunken man why he had sat behind the wheel drunken. ;=)   
      
    AS> That reminds me of an opposite occasion: an ingenious question from   
    AS> a drunk man to a sober. It happened in the cusp season when late   
    AS> autumn yields to early winter and the weather is damp, cold, murky,   
      
   I heard in this context about "we are on the cusp of winter season". Not sure   
   about "cusp season".   
      
    AS> and depressing because there is no snow yet to amend the early   
    AS> darkness, the barren trees and bushes, and the general greyness of   
    AS> the world. It is in such mean weather that my father and his friend   
    AS> were standing at a bus stop and shivering in the cold when a drunk   
    AS> bedraggled man, probably a bum, accosted them in this respectful   
    AS> manner: "O fathers!", said he, "what is the time?", to which one   
    AS> them said it was eight. "Fathers!", said the bedraggled man after a   
    AS> pause, "it is in the morning or in the evening?"   
      
   In Russia we also know a famous story about a drunk man who mistakenly got to   
   Leningrad instead of Moscow by plane, then he got on the taxi to the equally   
   named street, the same block of flats number, and the same flat. There he   
   found a girl and they fell in love after a funny mess. And every year, on the   
   New Year eve, Russians love to watch the screen version of this story on TV.   
   =)   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2018   
      
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