Need A Guinea Pig?

[Cold_Zero]

Ok, so a 13 year old Russian girl emails her President's blog asking for a Guinea Pig.

http://medvedev.be/

At first the local officials show up at school and chide her for wasting the President of Russia's time with such a frivolous request. The parents write the President to complain and later officials show up at her door with three Guinea Pigs and food for them for a couple of months.http://en.rian.ru/society/20090206/120018207.html

From talking with Igor here at work, apparently the 1970's-1980's if you had a son born to your family, you named him Leonid. Then you wrote a letter to the General Secretary informing him that you were so inspired by his foreign or domestic policy that you named your son after him. Low and behold a TV (color) would arrive from the government. Apparently, it caught on in the Soviet Union, who needed to move TVs that no one was buying.

This got me thinking.. maybe I can name my son (yet to be born) Barack and then write him a letter asking for a guinea pig.. no.. a new TV.bud

[480sx]

The story began when 13-year-old Nastya Ivliyeva, from the village of Kalitvensky in the Rostov Region, wrote to the official website of President Dmitry Medvedev to ask for a second guinea pig to go with the one she already had.

That was when what Russian media have described as the "theater of the absurd" began.

Indeed, lol. Wow what a bizarre story.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

Protip: I love guinea pigs.

Seriously, I'll start awwwwing like crazy if you give me one.

What if I name a guinea pig Barack? Can I atleast get one of the TV converter thingys?

[Cold_Zero]

I dont think Obama is going to send you anything, but I dare you to ask Uncle Demitry for one.

[audtatious]

Wonder if naming a daughter HOPE would get you anywhere?

[Cold_Zero]

Nah, you might have to 'CHANGE' her name later.