Ted Rall for November 29, 1999

Transcript:

It's another day in the Russian Mafia. Today "sitdown shakedown" (Man 1: Yo, yaroslawitz- Monika "the cat" Kosaristanova wants us and Dmitri "knucklehead" pobereyko-willanovski to have a sitdown.) (Man 2: I'll bring the Kalishnikov.) En route (Man 1: Kosaristanova will have that thug Nanda "pea soup" Samarawickaramawitz watching her back. If he twitches, kill him.) (Man 2: It'll be my pleasure after what he did to winogradon and tazanksky!) At the sitdown (Woman: Yaroslawitz goes back to the old leningrad days- say hello to him, samra.) (Man 3: I'm yablonsky.) (Man 4: Whatever) Shakedown (Man 5: The cat demands 5% of the beat racket.) (Man 6: Are you mad? Beets have always been the yaroslawitzes!) Then it happens (Man 7: Wait- you were supposed to kill koraponay!) (Man 8: Whatever.)