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Creative association
Ekran 1982

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Dear friends, let me introduce you to me,

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Occupied with assets,
liabilities & letters of credit

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My favorite hobbies: Reading detective stories

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After accounting

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I spend all my time on my couch

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I love strawberry cake

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I despise all sports

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But today I decided to

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change my attitude towards sports

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Here is my chosen sport equipment:

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Riding on it, as I have heard, invigorates

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So this is the bike mechanic

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Engine-oil is his perfume.

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And this is - my coach, a sport trainer.

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And this is a horribly nasty boy

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Getting in the way of all underfoot,

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Laughing when he shouldn't laugh

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THE TAMING OF THE BICYCLE

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After a story by Mark Twain

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I ride it 'round freely, pressing the pedals.
you truly haven't seen anything like it yet.

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Convenient, elegant, easy, reliable
and it demands hardly any effort.

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I sing a victory song on cycling

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No better friend than a bicycle

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You will not regret if you master it,
and are able to tame this clunker.

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Giving it proper thought, I decided
that I could handle the matter.

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The instructor was happy to find that
he needed only to put me on and step aside.

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And I could step off myself.
[LEAD WATER]

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Within a week, I was almost healed.

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This was because

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I prudently always dismounted
onto something soft.

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Some recommend a railing.

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But in my opinion, the instructor was more convenient.

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Finally, the instructor left the hospital.

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Once you learn to keep the bike in balance,

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you need to move on
to the next task: to sit on it.

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Here's how.

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Get up and start all over again.

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Finally, the course was over,
at least in its rough outline.

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I was told that now
I could ride without help.

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To the right! To the left! Stand still!
To the right! To the left! Stand still!

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I ride it 'round freely, pressing the pedals.
I pressed on the pedals and caused lots of trouble.

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Convenient, elegant, easy, reliable
but staying alive is simply impossible!

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Director Rasa Strautmane, Art-director A Lyarskiy

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I sing a victory song on cycling

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No better friend than a bicycle
[camera L Kolvinkovsky, Sound V Azarovsky]

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You will not regret if you master it,

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and are able to tame this clunker.
[Music D Krivitsky, Poem A Timofeyevsky]

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Voices Zinovy Gherdt, G. Ivanova

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animators:
Alla Grishko, Ludmila Afrina, R. Karpinskaya

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I ride it 'round freely, pressing the pedals.
And any obstacles aren't any bother!

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Conveniently, elegant, easy, reliable
especially if one rides cautiously
[Puppets by N Larskaya...]

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L Doronina, E Pokrovskaya, A
Mulyukina, A Degtyaryov, A Gnedinskiy

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I sing a victory song on cycling

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No better friend than a bicycle
[Montage S Simukhina, Producer I Gelashvili]

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You will not regret if you master it,
and are able to tame this clunker!

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Buy yourself a bicycle! You won't regret it...
if you stay alive.

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The End
Subs by Chapaev & Eus, ed. by Niffiwan
October 2019/April 2020