A barista to the throne (a pun on the line “Borisku na tsarstvo?” — “Boris to the throne?” — from the film Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future; “baristu” sounds like “Borisku”)
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Wordplay and puns. Ba-dum-tss.
A few wonderful words have accumulated:
Stephen Kniga
like Stephen King: Russian “kniga” means “book”
Vyrastalker
like Stalker that has grown up: Russian “vyrastal” means “was growing up”
Slit audience
like Target audience: Russian “tselevaya” means “target” and “shelevaya” means “slit”
Slowcoaster
like lowcoaster: a made-up blend of “slow” and “coaster”
Nightingale the Parser
like Nightingale the Robber, Solovey-Razboynik: Russian “razboynik” means “robber” and “razbor” means “parsing”
Enthusiast narrators are no worse than professionals… And to misread “The Wild Hunt” in The Witcher as “The Wild Gnome”, you really have to make an effort 😂 (the Russian pun is “Dikiy gon” / “Dikiy gnom” — “Wild Hunt” / “Wild Gnome”.)
Lord of the Drinks
A young monk took his vows, and his first task at the monastery was to help the other monks hand-copy church statutes, psalms, laws, and so on. After working like that for about a week, our monk noticed that all the monks were copying these materials from the previous copy rather than from the original. Astonished by this, he expressed his surprise to the abbot: “Padre, if someone made a mistake in the first copy, it will repeat forever and can never be corrected, for there is nothing to compare it with!” “Hmm, my son,” the abbot replied, “we have actually been doing it this way for centuries… But, in principle, there is something to your reasoning!” — and with these words he went down into the dungeons, where the “original sources”, unopened for centuries, were kept in huge chests. And he disappeared. When almost a day had passed since his disappearance, the worried monk went down into those same cellars to look for the holy father. He found him at once — he was sitting in front of a huge open tome of calfskin, banging his head against the sharp stones of the dungeon and mooing something unintelligible. Blood ran down his face, covered in dirt and scratches, his hair was tangled, and his gaze was insane. “What is wrong with you, holy father?” cried the shocked young man. “What happened?!” “Celebrate,” the abbot groaned, “the word was: c-e-l-e-b-r-a-t-e! Not ‘celibate’!!!
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Comment (a pun on the Russian title of the first book, “Garri Potter i filosofskiy kamen” — Philosopher’s Stone — because “kamen” (stone) and “komment” (comment) sound alike)
If a shaggy black cat crosses your path at a right angle, it means it is perpendicular to you. (A pun: “perpendicular” is used jokingly in Russian to mean “indifferent”, so it also reads as “the cat doesn’t care about you”.)
@essnooker Better Sinitsyn on air than Carter in the sky. (A play on the Russian proverb “A titmouse in the hand is better than a crane in the sky” — the surname Sinitsyn comes from “titmouse” — and on the two snooker figures: Sinitsyn is a well-known snooker commentator on Eurosport, while Carter is a well-known snooker player who is also a pilot.)