dank tank
Russian translation: бадья
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| 15:20 Oct 24, 2004 |
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|  Selected response from: Irene N United States Local time: 00:01 | ||||
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| 4 +6 | dUnk tank |
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| 3 +1 | бадья |
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11 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +6
peer agreement (net): +6dUnk tank Explanation: Sorry, I can't explain this well in Russian. It's a large vat (бассейн?) of water. A person (often a public figure doing this for charity) sits on a sort of "diving board" above the tank. People pay for an opportunity to thrown a ball at a target. It the ball hits the targe, the board retracts and the person falls into the tank, to the amusement of all -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2004-10-24 15:53:15 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I believe this was also used as a form of public punishment in the colonial era of the US, and this may be the more likely intended meaning: a person would be strapped to such a \"diving board\" and lowered into a бак с водой until they were gasping for air. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2004-10-24 16:01:58 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- как форма наказания, чаще всего, \"dunking board\". похож на форму высшей меры наказаний ведьм, а в данном случае...до смерти! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2004-10-24 21:23:28 (GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- P.S. It would be wrong to give me the points since I didn\'t even attempt to explain it in Russian. As an English-English question, maybe... Heck, I\'ve never heard of бадья! Баня, yes, but not бадья! |
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