kapitoshki / капитошки

[remi-jakovlevic.livejournal.com]

Who are "kapitsohki"? Some comic strip characters? Last time I came across this name is on the last photograph here:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/velik_moguch/259952.html?#cutid1
One of the comments says it's better when they're called "mushariki". Another announces a new film "Silence of the kapitoshki" :))))))
WHO THE HELL ARE THEY??
Many thanks per advance!

Comments

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a play on "Silence of the Lambs?"

[zloizloi.livejournal.com]

It is a cartoon character - round live water droplet

[demonn.livejournal.com]

Капитошка - это персонаж мультфильма.
"Капитошка" is a cartoon hero.

[orloffm.livejournal.com]

But I am 18 now and I haven't ever heard about them.

[remi-jakovlevic.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a Soviet cartoon:
Капитошка" (Киевнаучфильм, 1980) (спасибо Гуглу!)
But I still don't understand the joke about "mushariki" (I didn't even know this word....)

[remi-jakovlevic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. By the way, do you understand the joke about "mushariki" 9it's the first time I hear this word!)

[remi-jakovlevic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. 6 files in eMule - hurrah1

[annyway.livejournal.com]

Yes. Because the toy looks like it`s mouth is shut up.

[yers.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, it was one of those toons that our generation grew up on... It's strange that there's not a single picture of Kapitoshka anywhere on the web. I can barely remember what he looked like.

[remi-jakovlevic.livejournal.com]

Ohh! Now I understand the photograph from velik_moguch ;)
Bolshoy pasip

[annyway.livejournal.com]

And Капитошка is also familiar variant of Капитон - an old name, rarely used now.
Мушарики, I think, is just a funny word, sounds like мушки and шарики at once.

[zloizloi.livejournal.com]

mushariki... hmm... for me it associates with losharik - another cartoon pony made of balls. Probably, annyway is right about it's etymology

[noser.livejournal.com]

My memory is really rusty, but I think there was another character in the same cartoon by the name of Losharik (from лошадь/horse and шарик/little ball). It was a funny horse made of balls.

But why Musharik??? Beats the hell out of me.

[mihailova.livejournal.com]

I am afraid, your are not right. look http://www.myltik.ru/db/rus/v/vozvraschaisya_kapitoshka.jpg :)
and here (http://www.myltik.ru/db/rus/l/losharik.jpg) you can see losharik

[yers.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Actually they seem to have referrer checking so direct links to images don't work, so for the sake of others, here are the links: Kapitoshka (http://www.myltik.ru/index.php?topic=db&mult=view&multid=840) and Losharik (http://www.myltik.ru/index.php?topic=db&mult=view&multid=173)...

[mihailova.livejournal.com]

it's rather strange to hear that direct links to images don't work, if they are shown when you look through the mentioned pages

[mihailova.livejournal.com]

do not be afraid ;)

shame on me, but i also did not understand the joke :(

[laier.livejournal.com]

And also air balloon (or condom) filled with water
Kids threw them from windows.

[remi-jakovlevic.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the photos. As for musharik, it mignt be a funny way to associate SHARIK with... French "mouchard" (= a sneak, ябеда).
LJ users are so un predictable!

[remi-jakovlevic.livejournal.com]

:)))))

[rem-lj.livejournal.com]

kapitoshka not only cartoon character or condom filled with water :-)
its also a popular toy - elastic bubble with eyes painted on it and filled with flour. You can make from it a lot of funny faces

[mooze.livejournal.com]

Nah, Losharik is a separate cartoon about a horsy made out of baloons and balls of assorted sizes. My son loves reading this book, and, frankly, the book is much more optimistic and interesting than a stupid cartoon made based on it.

Musharik - I think there were some creatures from the same cartoon as the one Kapitoshka featured in, but I'm not positive

[yers.livejournal.com]

Not strange at all. When an image loads from a web page, the HTTP referrer is the web page's address; when it's linked straight, the referrer is remote (in our case, it's the address of this post). A lot of servers cut off remote referring for images, to prevent what's called "traffic leeching".