Another long-haired brunette, this one named Iskra Angelova. She invited Jimbo to pop on over to Bulgaria to take in a show.

Hubba, hubba, Jimbo!

Whoops! RANDROID ALERT!

Hey, check it out - no wedding ring!

I have to admit, she looks pretty good for someone who's just been through a long day of defending the nation against hordes of marauding Turks.

No, no. That thing she's holding is a Bulgarian Matrimony Symbol. The whole ceremony is conducted in this fashion.

O RLY? Maybe they'll play some Bulgarian wedding music:



Those people are insane, playing all of their folk dances in 17/8 or some other godawful, fucked up time signature. Hey Bulgarians: it's a wedding, not a Genesis or Tool concert!

If you read Wikipedia you would know that in the Orthodox countries (except for Romania for some reason) they wear the ring on their right hand. Bulgaria is Orthodox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_ring#...wedding_customs

Also, don't get me started on Bulgarian grammar.... according to our trusty online encyclopedia, Bulgarian verbs "are inflected for person, number and sometimes gender. They also have ..... nine tenses, five moods and six non-finite verbal forms"



Like their wedding music, why do they have to make everything so insufferably complicated?

The more complicated it is, the more information it carries. English is very easy to learn (when you get over the spelling), but one can express himself more precisely in Bulgarian, which is extremely similar to my native Serbian, than in English.

As for the wedding music/dance, I don't think that's actually used for weddings today. It was a wedding dance some hundreds of years ago, it's still called that way, but it's only used for performances, for obvious reasons.

Funfact: Iskra means spark.

<stupid_joke>
Does that make Jimbo a spark plug?
</stupid_joke>

Well, he certainly may plug something...

Sparky!

So if they wear the ring on their right hands, maybe Jimbo doesn't know she's married? That could get awkward.

I should say, Ms. Angelova is currently a red link on Wikipedia's List of Bulgarian actors and actresses (T-H-L-K-D). I have a feeling that this could get ugly, very quickly...

Perhaps being a Randian will soon replace Scientology as the "in" thing for entertainment figures to belong to.

Do you honestly believe Jimbo cares if she's married?

I used to listen to a bit of traditional Bulgarian folk singing back when it was hip (I'm serious). It's one of the most unique and sublime sounds on the planet.

Here's a traditional Bulgarian wedding scene set to Bulgarian folk singing.

Maybe then we can get a south park episode with the caption "THIS IS WHAT OBJECTIVISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE"

That is pretty cool and unexpected. Now why don't we get that sort of thing in the ever-geographically expanding Eurovision Song Contest?

(It was also very unexpected as my wife went to Bulgaria skiing some 20 years ago and came back with a large hangover from the free wine and a single of Snowy Whitey Happy Singy Lovely Bulgaria which until just now I had expunged from my mind.

I may just encode it and upload it as punishment to you all. I know you deserve it.)

The amateur video of Jimbo's Bulgaria lecture (and a lengthy Q&A sessioni) are published.

If you, like me, can't take the 90 minutes to watch all of this, I caught a screen capture of Jimbo's lecture notes, which sums up what he talked about. Jimbo's notes are very helpful and concise.

Ooh ooo ooh! Special treat for insiders!

See 5:45 in video clip #2. Guess who's surfing the crowd and holding the microphone for audience members to ask question of Der Jimbo?

Hint: she's a brunette, and she's good with a crossbow!

It looks like he is doing one of those variety acts where you have a black stage, black props, black clothes and then do something nasty to music.

You made me listen to a crap question, damn you!

Personally, I think Jon and Kate are more interesting.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/150385

I still think the Free World method of using a microphone boom is preferable.

Taken from another thread...

It turns out that Jimbo's Bulgarian / Randian contact, Iskra Angelova, was linked to a nepotistic incident on the Bulgarian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire back in 2002. And that fact was in the WP article about the show. So we'll see how long that lasts.


Edit war anyone?

Anyone here read Bulgarian well enough to see how this is handled on the Bulgarian WP? Seems not to be mentioned on the Czech one but thats scarcely surprising as they often dont know Bulgaria exists.