Recent gems from Ivan

During a road trip, we played the following game: the first person names a city; the next person has to come up with a city whose name starts with the same letter as the last letter of the first city, e.g. Boston -> New York -> Cleveland (yes, we mixed up Russian with English).

Ivan was able to contribute three cities: Wellesley, Denver, and apparently the capital of New York State...

Leningrad.

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Ivan explaining a movie scene where a prisoner is talking to a mouse: "The guy is in jail, he and the mouse. I don't know why the mouse is in jail."

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Fencing teacher: What's your favorite vegetable?
Ivan: Fruit!

[Fencing teacher ROFL - literally.]