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1. Ways to off yourself.
2. The prospective suicidal Elena.
3. Atempt 1 – Metro Diving
4. Attempt 2 – Khrushevka Leaping
5. Attempt 3 – Batman Style.



(taken from theExile.ru solely for educational purposes)

Буквально, прыжок, высоковольтный фен, глоток водки, не подходить под понятие, попытка самоубийства, вскрытие вен, не одобрять, шрамы.

Conventional wisdom has it that anyone who tries to kill themselves and fails didn't really want to die. There are numbers of ways that are virtually guaranteed to get the job done right. There's a shotgun or high caliber pistol to the head, jumping in front of a speeding train, leaping from a 14-story building, taking a bath with a high voltage hair dryer. But a few Dramamine ("Драмамин" Товарный знак таблеток, принимаемых при тошноте, рвоте, симптомах морской болезни) with a shot of vodka doesn't qualify as a suicide attempt. As for wrist slitting, this method is much frowned upon because people generally do this because they like scars.

Попытки, божественное вмешательство, стопроцентно успешный (безпроигрышный), уделать себя, хотя (и),

However, every once in a while someone comes around that can't get the job done despite their best efforts. Whether because of divine intervention or just bad luck, sometimes even surefire methods fail. Take 41-year-old Muscovite Elena. She's tried three times to do herself in, and yet she's still breathing, albeit with the help of a respirator.

без малейшей царапины (без малейшего вреда для себя), прыгнуть, с удовольствием, впадина (углубление), взбешена, ринуться, третий рельс

Her first attempt, while noble, left her without a scratch. About ten years ago, Elena flung herself in front of a Metro train as it entered a station. Unfortunately, she jumped with a little too much gusto and landed in the depression made for anyone who finds themselves on the tracks when a train is approaching. Apparently, she was so rattled by her failure that she forgot to lunge for the third rail (an extra rail from which an electric train picks up current by means of a sliding collector to feed power to its motors), which is also an effective life-ender.
The next attempt, last year, she jumped out of her apartment window. However, the apartment was only on the fourth floor, and she lived to see another day.

делать более изящным( утончённым, изысканным), безумно (неистово, яростно), распластанная, переломы, прибавьте к этому,

On May 7, she decided to refine her technique a little. This time, she went up to the 14th floor at 16 Belomorskaya ul. and jumped. She jumped in the early morning, and no one in the building heard the crash as she landed on an Audi 100 parked below. There she lay until her father, realizing that she wasn't home, frantically searched the building for signs of her. He found an open window on the 14th floor and, looking out, saw his daughter splattered on the car below.
He called the militsia and they found that she was still breathing, in spite of multiple fractures. Chalk it up to the Audi's excellent shocks. She was rushed off to City Hospital 81, where she is now in critical condition.



Conventional wisdom has it that … – Традиционно считается (народная мудрость гласит… lol), что …
Rumor has it that … – Ходят слухи, что
Legend has it that … - По легенде, …

Rumor has it, he’s like kicked the bucket. – Ходят слухи, что он типа как окочурился.

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1. Look at the size of his putter.
2. Oh, dang, my shaft's all bent.
3. You really wacked the hell out of that sucker.
4. After 18 holes I can barely walk.
5. My hands are so sweaty I can't get a good grip.
6. Lift your head and spread your legs.
7. You have a nice stroke, but your follow through leaves a lot to be desired.
8. Just turn your back and drop it.
9. Hold up. I've got to wash my balls.
10. Damn, I missed the hole again.

Hello, Dear English learners. In the first lines of this issue I would like to apologize for being away for so long. The fact is (1) I have been experimenting with a program called Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 8, (2) doing repairs to my room which now has laminate flooring (it feels so cool to tread on!).
Anyway I'm still alive and kicking, and now I'm ready to present issue 46 of English booster. For those of you who are new to this mailing: get out of here before it's too late.

Deadly word boost.

Before reading this story, make sure that you know the words below:

Cremated - to burn the body of a dead person at a funeral ceremony

Spot - to see or notice a person or thing, especially suddenly or when it is not easy to do so

Missing alive – Пропавшие без вести.

Strong-minded - not easily influenced by other people to change what you believe or want

Decomposed - rotten

Wander - walk or move in a leisurely or aimless way

Confirm - establish the truth or correctness of

Snr – Senior

Jnr - Junior

to jog one's memory - cause you to suddenly remember something that you had forgotten.

to blast - to criticize something very strongly

Rigorous - extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate.

Cremated' dad spotted on TV



A Manchester man spotted his father alive and well on TV - five years after his funeral.

John Renehan, 42, had the wrong man cremated after police said they found his missing dad's body, reports The Sun.

But then he caught a glimpse of 71-year-old John Delaney in a care home on BBC1 show Missing Live.

John Jnr said: "I was in shock. I have always tried to be strong-minded but to see who we thought we had cremated..."

His dad, who vanished in 2000, was declared dead in 2003 after cops found a decomposed body in similar clothes.

In reality he had lost his memory after a blow to the head and was found wandering around Oldham, Greater Manchester, weeks later.

John Snr was given the name David Harrison and put in a home. He still has amnesia but DNA confirmed his identity.

His son, of Didsbury, now spends every day with his dad hoping to jog his memory. He blasted police for "identifying" the body with no DNA test and wants compensation for funeral costs.

John Jnr added: "There is no silver lining. It would have been nice to have a proper conversation with my father."

Police apologised and said rigorous tests were now routine. They are trying to ID the stranger.


P.S. Архив рассылки можно найти тут http://enboost.ucoz.ru/

In case someone is interested in talking to his or her computer, here’s the link. I hope the comments to the post will be useful for you, too.

P.S. На сон грядущий, в порядке бреда, можно прочитать вот это.

This issue has been very cold, because we're still experiencing problems with central heating.

(Taken from the Exile solely for educational purposes)
Read the article paying attention to the highlighted words [the words with the translation in brackets.] Answer the questions that follow it and do the tasks suggested.

Task 1. Try to memorize the words and word combinations below the article.

Sometimes there's a murder so twisted that it defies comparison. The following account of a man spooned to death in front of his family is one of those murders without precedent. The story begins in the Mayorov's apartment in the Kollinsky region after the husband and wife returned home from celebrating an anniversary or some such occasion. There was some drinking involved, and by the time they got back the husband was close to passing out. He crashed on the living room couch but could get no peace. In the kitchen,
his 17-year-old daughter Lida was hanging out with two classmates, Andrei Sanzhara and Kostya Ivanichenko and making a racket. The trio was shooting up and showing no sign of slowing down when the drunken father finally decided to put an end to it. He hauled his ass off of the couch and bitched out his daughter's guests. He was, but still managed to get his point across. They didn't have the desired effect, though. After he returned to the couch, the two boys started to contemplate revenge. Kostya grabbed a
foot long wooden spoon and started menacingly beating it against his palm. Andrei figured a beating with a wooden spoon was a bit pedestrian, though. He decided it would be more entertaining to stick the spoon up his ass. He grabbed the spoon and went to the other room. Lida asked Andrei to restrain himself, saying not to do it because her dad "would start cursing." But Andrei was inspired. By now Lida's mother and younger brother were also trying to change Andrei's mind, to no avail. He pulled off the unconscious
Mayorov's pants and plunged the spoon all the way up his ass. "Sweet," he commented. "That went well. He'll wake up with a spoon in his ass!" And indeed, he did, wake up with a spoon up his ass, that is. He was so wasted (= drunken), however, that he couldn't make it to the bathroom for almost a quarter hour, and only then did he finally remove it. Then he fell right back asleep on the couch. The next day he started suffering from severe internal pain; the foot long spoon had ripped up his intestines and other
organs. He checked into a hospital, but he was doomed to a slow, painful death. Four days after the anal encounter, he died from his injuries. Both Andrei and Kostya have been detained, and Andrei confessed his crime. He's looking at 7 years, where he will no doubt become acquainted with all sorts of anally inserts.


2. Find the English equivalents for the following. Plus make up sentences of your own using the highlighted vocabulary.



1. According to the article:
the spoon was plunged all the way up the man’s throat
the spoon was plunged all the way up the man’s ass
the spoon was plunged all the way up the man’s ear

2. What do you think the father's feelings were when he found he had been injured?
It didn't hurt him to be the victim. So he was happy.
He was depressed because he realized he had been wronged.
He felt little. He died soon afterwards.

Vocabulary Extension. (Working with a dictionary)
When do we say "die of" and "die from"?

Questions for discussion

What is spoonerism?
Why is the article so entitled?
When did the accident happen?
Were the characters sober?
Why was the father angry?
How did the bad guys kill the father and where did he go to before death?
Would you like to die such a death? If not, why?

divorce – разводиться
a mistress - любовница (OLD-FASHIONED)
voluntary - добровольный

A German woman, aged 83, has divorced her 81-year-old husband after 60 years of marriage because he was caught having sex with his mistress at work.
George Meister met his lover, who is 30 years his junior, while doing voluntary work at an animal breeding centre.

quickie - нечто, сделанное быстро
pull the curtains – задёрнуть занавески
expose - делать видимым, обнажать; показывать, выставлять на показ
antics - нелепые выходки

The affair was exposed when they forgot to pull the curtains while having a 'quickie' in one of the centre's offices.
His wife Ruth who was told about her husband's antics threw him out of their home and he has now moved in with his younger lover who lives just two doors down the road.

Allied bombs = бомбардировка союзных сил
Exist - существовать

The divorce court heard the couple had met over 60 years ago as Allied bombs fell on Bonn and have since raised three children together.
Mrs Meister said: "I had a good husband and he was a good father but that man does not exist any more.
"It's a sad end for us, but I showed no mercy. I just threw him out. I see them kissing on the streets and it is disgusting."

Advanced Reading
Deadly Word Boost + Amazing But Тру
2-in-1
1. FACT (taken from www.amusingfacts.com. Thanks, Gauher) Read the fact, find the words by it's definition, learn the words. Give a Summary of the article.

Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath.


Halitosis is nothing new. Man has suffered from it since the beginning of time, despite the development of such beauty/hygiene products as mouthwashes. While those give temporary relief, at least to the people around you, they don't really have the ability to cure the problem.

The vast majority of bad breath problems originate in the mouth, and are related to bacteria, as opposed to what you ate last.
Conditions such as hunger breath or menstrual breath, are related to chemicals from the pancreas entering the stomach during fasting, and hormonal fluctuations, respectively. Both can be alleviated with mouthwashes temporarily, and in the case of hunger breath, by eating.

Some diseases and conditions of your organs are occasionally responsible for halitosis, including diabetes, which produces a sweet ketone smell; liver failure, which gives off a sweet/musty odor; or kidney failure which can produce an ammonia or urine
smell.

By far and large, bad breath is due to the millions of bacteria that live in our mouths, the decaying results of meals, and snacks. Saliva that flows through our mouth during the day, helps to remove some of it, but a great deal remains, which makes flossing and thorough brushing of the teeth imperative, not only for fresh breath, but also dental health. The reason
you have "morning breath", is that during the night your production of saliva is slowed, and the bacteria build up in your mouth. The odor will disappear as soon as you rinse your mouth.

Approximately 65% of Americans are said to have bad breath, with some 40% suffering what qualifies as chronic halitosis. Fighting it off, makes sales of halitosis-related products hit a billion dollars a year.


Task I Find the words by their definitions
1. smelling bad (formal)
2. a condition in which someone's breath smells very bad
3. the practice of keeping your body clean
4. lasting for only a limited period of time
5. to make someone who is ill well again, to remove a problem, or improve a bad situation
6. to make something less painful or difficult
7. a smell, especially an unpleasant one

Task II Translate the following sentences into Russian
By far and large, bad breath is due to the millions of bacteria that live in our mouths, the decaying results of meals, and snacks. Saliva that flows through our mouth during the day, helps to remove some of it, but a great deal remains, which makes flossing and thorough brushing of the teeth imperative, not only for fresh breath, but also dental health.

If you notice this notice,
you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
Deadly Word Boost
What’s up, dear English learners? Today we present 10 easy-to-pronounce tongue twisters. Have a go at these:

Number 1
If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor
who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the
doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor
the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

Number 2
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,
Or some stickler who is slicker
Will stick you of your liquor
If you fail to lock your liquor
With a lock!

Number 3
A Tudor who tooted a flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
"Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
Number 4
A twister of twists once twisted a twist;
A twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist;
If in twisting a twist one twist should untwist,
The untwisted twist would untwist the twist.
Number 5
How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies?
A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
Number 6
I need not your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.
Number 7
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Number 8
There was a young fisher named Fischer
Who fished for a fish in a fissure.
The fish with a grin,
Pulled the fisherman in;
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.
Number 9
You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.
Number 10 - Oops
Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
Now.....if Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
Success to the successful thistle-sifter!



Задание только для русскоговорящих
If you translate the following word combinations into Russian, you’ll find they are devoid of meaning. So what do they all mean?

1. More Doe Boy
2. Bar Duck
3. Poop Sick
4. Poo Poke
5. Score Tinner
6. Pre Duo Rock
7. Pod Looker
8. Swallow Chew Gar
9. Dirt Dome
10. Dead Skip Latch
11. Knee Moo Sorry!

For those who’ve been unable to solve this language riddle, here are English clues!

1. fisticuffs
2. terrible mess
3. sweetie
4. navel
5. brute, cattle
6. jerk
7. a mean person
8. dirty scum, generally a bad guy
9. an asylum
10. baby’s crying
11. Do not litter!

Dear English Learners,
Доунт форгет зэт ай ныд ёр фидбэк… соу зэт ай куд мэйк инглиш бустер мор еджукейшэнал. Any kind of feedback is appreciated!
Терпеть не можешь эту рассылку? Читаешь её с отвращением? Однако уверен, что должен продолжать изучение английского языка? Выплесни весь негатив/позитив в самом нездоровом сообществе рунета DEADLY ENGLISH!


Issue 18 – Гигиена прежде всего!
Smelly Grammar Boost
Сегодня, dear English learners, мы поговорим о времени Past Simple (или, как его ещё называют, Indefinite).
Past Simple обозначает действие, произошедшее в прошлом; последовательно произошедшие в прошлом действия; повторяющиеся действия в прошлом.
Образование.
Past Simple правильных глаголов образуется прибавлением суффикса –ed к основе глагола. Форме Past Simple неправильных глаголов соответствует II форма глагола в соответствующих глагольных рядах, приводимых в специальных таблицах, которые обычно приводятся в конце любого учебника английской грамматики.

Now that you’ve read all of the meaningful something above, I suggest you do the following tasks:
1. Найдите в этой познавательной статье все глаголы в Past Simple.
2. Обратите внимание на неправильные глаголы.

Слова, которые помогут Вам прочитать это текст побыстрее!
тошнотворный, вызывать (влечь за собой, разжигать), гниющий, вонь,

Smelly feet spark police raid

A man's smelly feet sparked a police raid in Germany after neighbours reported the smell of a rotting body.
Police who broke into the home of Johannes Helmut, 41, in Kaiserslautern, found him asleep in bed.
Neighbours, who had not seen him for a week, believed he had died because of the smell.
But police said the "nauseous stench" was found to be coming from his feet and a pile of unwashed socks.

Deadly Word Boost


Find the following English words in the story:

Надеяться, книги рекордов, развивать, вкус, утверждать, любовь, уверен в том, что, страх,

An Indian man hopes to get his name in the record books by eating 50 cockroaches in a minute.
Ramesh Kumar, from the southern city of Coimbatore, says he has eaten cockroaches since childhood.
He says he has developed a taste for the pests and also claims a fondness for other insects and lizards.
The goldsmith told Asian News International the current cockroach eating record was 36 in a minute but he was confident of eating 50.
He said: "I do not have any kind of fear from them. One day I tried to taste a cockroach and I liked it very much and thought of making a record by it."
The 26-year-old is also planning to stay in a glass case filled with 25,000 cockroaches for three days.


P.S. The 26-year-old is also planning to stay in a glass case filled with 25,000 cockroaches for three days. – А о чём мечтаете вы?

Hey there, devoted zombies of the internet age. Here's the long-awaited issue #4 of Enbooster, and I hope it will get you in the right mood.

THE IDIOT OF THE DAY
(sure it's not the latest news ... but come to think of it ... absurd!)
сварщик, хороший сигнал, в отчаянии, пожарный выход, поскользнуться (не устоять на ногах).

The UK Independent reported that an Italian welder, in the UK doing contracting work, after failing to get a decent phone signal in the hotel restaurant, even after banging the phone on the table several times, left the restaurant in frustration, went out a fire exit and up to the hotel roof to try to get a better signal. Still not getting a good enough signal, he left the fire escape and walked a long way around the parapet and then fell to his death 50 feet below when he lost his footing.

The Absurd Word of the Week translated and illustrated.
chiropodist - a person whose job is to treat and care for people’s feet. лицо, делающее педикюр, мозольный оператор.
"Of all the words, the word chiropodist, as it seems to me, reflects the richness and the beauty of the English language." Karl Marx
Thanks.

P.S. By the way, the Enbooster mailing lists have nothing to do with http://www.englishbooster.com/

Dear Friends, it rends my heart to tell you that Enbooster (the site) is dead. That means I won't be trying to coerce you into clicking the link to the site anymore. I'm in distress (after all, I've put so much effort into creating the site). I need your feedback badly. Please, don't take it as a personal insult and say something here http://blogs.mail.ru/mail/p... ... в комментариях к любому посту. Perhaps we could make learning English far more interesting together.

НО Даже в такой горестный для меня момент, я хочу подарить вам Absurd Word of the Day:
fistaloar - AM sl. someone who fights a lot. (= драчун)
P.S. Отзовитесь люди! Жду.

Ok, ladies and gentlemen, it's supposed to get harder and harder day after day, night after night. What is meant by that, you wonder? The task I'm about to present herein. To effectively learn any vocabulary item so that it's stuck in your mind for further communication, you'd better learn it in context.

(Контекст это типа когда в речи или на письме в окружении других слов)

Моя бабуля говорит it's the best way to grab the English vocabulary by the balls. And believe me, when she says it's effective she means it!

Lorry driver had no hands

Вот этими словесами в беспорядке раскиданными, но с дефинициями, вам предстоит заменить русские слова в этом безжалостно безруком триллере.

1.

Handless — having no hands
2.

stumps - the short part of someone's leg, arm etc that remains after the rest of it has been cut off
3.

overloaded — loaded more than it's intended
4.

unadapted — not adapted
5.

permitted - allowed
6.

firecrackers - firework that makes several loud bangs when it is lit.
7.

leniency — not being strict in the way you punish someone or control their behaviour
8.

beverage company — compony producing and selling drinks (la bebida in Spanish)


Police who pulled up an перегруженный lorry in China were amazed to find the driver had no hands.
The lorry was stopped for carrying five times its разрешённый load of six tonnes, reports Bandao Metropolis News.
"When we came to the cab window, we were surprised to see the driver was безрукий," says a Jimo city traffic police spokesman.
The driver, Zhang, was handling the непредназначенный lorry with the обрубки on his wrists - and didn't even have a driving licence.
Zhang insists there is no problem with his driving, and that the only reason he has no licence is his disability. His hands were blown off by хлопушки when he was 12.
"I went to six driving schools, but none of them would take me as a student," he said. "I drive very well, and took part in racing games before."
After graduating from university, Zhang couldn't find a job because of his disability, so he opened a компанию по производству напитков y in Qingdao city.
He employs a driver to make deliveries - but sometimes had to stand in for him when he is absent because of illness.
Zhang asked for снисхождения from the police, who finally only gave him a £15 ticket. He risked a fine of up to £150 and 15 days in jail.
He has promised he will never drive again.


Запомню назло всем:

Don't mess with firecrackers when you're 12 or younger. (otherwise first this you'll be missing is the pleasure of mastur .... ой, это же English Booster!)