Играем в колбасу!

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

One of LiveJournal's Russian members has created a new meme. I can translate it (well, except for a couple of words that aren't in my dictionary) - the point seems to be to see who has the longest sausage-chain of usernames. What I'm curious about is if this sausage game is something that the author made up or if it's a twist on an old game. If it's an old game, how does it work?

Warning for non-Russian speakers: Entering your name into the meme's form and clicking the button might automatically update your journal with the meme. =)

(I won't mention that my first reading of the title gave me dirty thoughts. Wait, I did mention it. *giggle*)

Comments

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[mymrik.livejournal.com]

Девушка, хорошая.. не надо эту колбасу
почитайте тут

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=chemodax&itemid=121885

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_irene_/]

а также тут:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/darkman666/14900.html

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[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the comment and the link.

However, please remember that the working language of this community is English. It's all right to post in Russian (it's nice to expose learners to as much Russian as possible), but if you do so, you must provide an English translation or summary for those of us who can't understand Russian. We want to keep this community as friendly as possible for them.

Thanks. =)

[yers.livejournal.com]

no, it's not a twist of an old game. In fact, nightway said he didn't know exactly what the point of his invention was.

Everyone's going crazy about it being a hack... I've designed this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/med99/241406.html) in response. And I'm thinking of actually setting it to work.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

... it would probably be wrong of me to encourage you to do so, wouldn't it? *grin*

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

BTW there's much less "secondary" dirty meaning of the word "колбаса" in Russian than that of the word "sausage" in English.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

I suspected that, since it didn't seem like the author was doing it for giggles. (And someone would never create and English game with the name "Play Sausage" without being aware of that secondary meaning...)

[the-revolution.livejournal.com]

Since your other post in this forum has 'replys frozen'

translation is not a significant issue. Use This (http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/)

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Babelfish can be a useful tool, but the translations it supplies are often gibberish. Because of this (and because this community exists for people learning Russian), we would like people to continue following that rule.

Thanks.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

AND! Last but not least...
DO NOT play it.
It is a spyware script.

[emperorkefka.livejournal.com]

How did you come to this conclusion?

[stepinrazor.livejournal.com]

Just try it out. If you're not logged in, this is the output you get:

Bad Unicode Input



Your browser sent some text which is not recognised as valid text in the UTF-8 encoding, as it should be. This might happen if you forced your browser to view the previous page in some other encoding rather than UTF-8. It may also indicate a bug in the browser. If you cannot get around this error, contact us.


--- this response is the Safari 1.0 browser response. Doesn't speak the language. Haha.
--- the Netscape response is to go to the update.bml page and ask for a password to be entered.. which it does.

[emperorkefka.livejournal.com]

acroyear70 is correct. But your problem is simple, your browser is not properly encoding the Cyrillics into Unicode. Nothing to do with spyware at all, just a probably with your browser.

[emperorkefka.livejournal.com]

-probably
+problem

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

is is NOT a "spyware". It doesn't grab your passwords (there's no way to). It does a "GET" query to the posting URL in LiveJournal (since that never changes and neither does the form parameters), through JavaScript. If you weren't logged in already, the post attempt would fail.

[emperorkefka.livejournal.com]

I second this!

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

Информационные агенства сообщают, что англоязычный Интернет подвергся атаке вредоносной программы неизвестной природы под названием Kolbasa. Пользователи сети и системные администраторы в панике - пока не существует антивирусных программ, способных "закрыть" дырку, через которую распространяется "Колбаса". Им остается лишь ругать "проклятых русских", опять поставивших весь Интернет на колени. Мы же рекомендуем всем внимательнее относиться к предложениям "поучаствовать в невинной игре". Пока неизвестно, какие именно последствия вызывает Kolbasa, но вряд ли вам понравится, если логин и пароль будут украдены, а затем использованы нелицеприятным образом.

Information agencies report that the English Internet underwent the attack of a harmful program of unknown nature by the name Kolbasa(sausage). Users of the network and system administrators panic because so far there does not exist antivirus program capable of "shutting" the hole, through which the "sausage" is extended. It remains to only scold "cursed Russians" and again placed entire the Internet on the elbows. We recommend all more attentively to relate to the proposals "to participate in the innocent game". It is unknown what causes Kolbasa, but it will not please you if login and password are stolen, and then used in a impartial manner.

My take on the meme is to mock the "Sausage Virus" (if this has been translated correctly)

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

ahh ^^;; and you've already probably discovered this through the Russian posted entries above. Heh...

[xnrrn.livejournal.com]

Okay, I died of laughter. lollydoll you made my day. I'll be sure to leave the note to blame you for my death. :DDDDD *dies*

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

oii... -_- it seems today isn't my day

[xnrrn.livejournal.com]

It isn't? :D

[lollydoll.livejournal.com]

Apparantly not if I'm making such mistakes with trasnlating and interpretation @_@ Third time today. This sausage thing is most confusing.

[xnrrn.livejournal.com]

Well, it was the funniest ever Kolbasa related blurb. ;) Also sarcastic of the mass hysteria, if there were some errors, I kind of overlooked them been swept with the force of sheer amusement. :)