# Russian speakers - help making a gag gift please?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 21, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-speakers-help-making-a-gag-gift-please/285977 "2005-01-21T21:15:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-speakers-help-making-a-gag-gift-please/285977/1 "2005-01-21T21:15:21Z")

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A friend of mine will be leaving early next month to study abroad in Russia for a semester. A going-away party is being thrown next week, and since I don’t really have money to buy her anything, I thought I might get her some sort of gag gift instead. Since she’s leaving for Russia (St. Petersburg I believe), I was thinking maybe was funny little quips or phrases in Russian, printed out on some nice paper for her. One problem… I don’t speak a lick of Russian (she, obviously, does).

One phrase I’ve thought of is “Toto, we’re not in Oklahoma anymore.”

Please add any you think might be good for a smirk or chuckle, and please include an English translation that I could put on the back to help her out if she gets stuck while deciphering it.