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   Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin   
   I read your message from 03.09.2023 00:04   
      
    AK>> At first Bender decided to upset the Koreyko's balance and make   
    AK>> him nervous. And he sent him some telegrams, like this:   
      
    AK>> "LOAD ORANGES IN BARRELS"   
      
    AK>> It sounds confusing and crazy in Russian, and I have thought for a   
    AK>> long time it is crazy in English too.   
      
    AH> Perhaps Bender meant this stuff to come across as a riddle, a   
    AH> secret code, and/or the ravings of a madman in order to upset   
    AH> Koreyko? :-)   
      
   Yes, probably. He even said to his accomplice to pretend to be a ragged, mad   
   beggar and follow Koreyko asking him "Give me a million, give me a million!" ;)   
      
    AK>> But all of a sudden I heard on American TV like this:   
    AK>> "Bad apple spoils barrel".   
      
    AK>> Aha, I thought, now I know where they load apples in barrels, not   
    AK>> baskets, and probably they load oranges in the same way, too. So,   
    AK>> Bender probably knew some English. ;-)   
      
    AH> ... even if he did the expression may simply not translate well. I   
    AH> first heard it as a teenager when it was clearly being used in a   
    AH> metaphorical sense to refer to one of my fellow students. The way I   
    AH> heard it was "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel [i.e. the whole   
    AH> kit & kaboodle]".   
      
    AH> Years ago hand-picked fruits & vegetables were loaded into baskets,   
    AH> then transferred to wooden crates or barrels for shipping   
    AH> elsewhere. Grocery stores often displayed their wares in such   
    AH> containers... whereas nowadays you would be more likely to eee   
    AH> cardboard cartons used for this purpose. But the principle is the   
    AH> same: a rotten piece of fruit can easily infect others.: - Q   
      
   Although it is strange a bit when you put next "wooden crates/barrels". Crates   
   have gaps between planks and fruits feel better in such condition. But if we   
   put apples (or oranges) into a barrel... IMHO it is a bad idea. ;)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2023   
      
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