Hey, it’s Vlad. How is everyone today? To tell you the truth I’ve been better. Why is that you say. Ok, I’ll tell you. You see, occasionally us ambassadors will get together and challenge our intellect with some word games. Your undoubtedly thinking that just isn’t fair since I am by far the smartest one here. That is very true, although we always play with a partner to even things out. We pick names out of a hat to choose our teammate. If I get Lena I am very happy and am ok with Laika, but this time I picked Yuri. Now I’m not trying to be mean here but Yuri is not known for his intellect. It’s analogous to being in a relay foot race and getting a sloth 🦥 as your partner. If this were an eating contest Yuri would have been a great pick but not here.

We were playing an anagram game. A word/phrase is given and we need to rearrange the letters to make a new word/phrase that is relevant to the first phrase. For instance, if the phrase is “The Eyes”, I might say “They see”. The first time you miss one your team is out.

I was up first. My phrase was “eleven plus two” …so obviously I said “twelve plus one”. Next was the team of Lena and Laika, with Lena answering. She got the phrase “garbage man”. After some pondering she blurted out “bag manager”. Well done Lena. Then was Sergei and Sasha. Sergei’s phrase was “father in law”. We thought he was stumped but at the last moment said “near halfwit”. It was now back to my team and Yuri was up. I hoped it was an easy one so Yuri didn’t strain his brain, but that was not to be. He got “The United States Bureau of Fisheries”. I’m sure if Yuri didn’t have fur on his phase we would have seen the blood drain out from it. The answer was clear as day, but Yuri just didn’t see it. He made a few babbling noises but then time ran out and we were eliminated. I’m sure it’s readily apparent to everyone that the correct answer was “I Raise the Bass to Feed Us in the Future”

Vlad out.