My God, why on earth is that being brought up again immediately in the new thread?
This, time to be a grown up and let things rest now.
My goals this year will be: make my son a healthy smart little buddy, actually work out, pwn my studies and work, be a nice person by being less jealous and focussed on what others are doing.
Its absurd how many different meanings "stok" has.
To me it means Colonel Stok, the weirdly friendly KGB officer in some of Len Deighton's early spy novels, brilliantly played by Oscar Homolka in two of the movie adaptations with Michael Caine, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.
If you've got a couple of hours, Billion Dollar Brain, Ken Russell's only film for a major studio, with great photography, a great score by Richard Rodney Bennett (the theme uses four grand pianos) and great performances by Caine, Homolka, Karl Malden, Ed Begley and Catherine Deneuve's beautiful and tragic half-sister Francoise Dorleac (who was killed in a car crash in France even before the film was released), is worth a look. It seemed fairly wacky at the time, but American exceptionalism has got so gross since then that the satire now appears quite measured.