Talk:Leninade
I think you have a fun pun here. Ideas:
- Another possible quote at the top.
“When God gives you Lenins, make Leninade.”
- You could use it as a metaphor for Lenin's influence after the revolution - it was a homemade drink he brewed up to power the Reds against the Whites, and then the Bolsheviks against the others.
- You could also employ another metaphor - the way Stalin deified Lenin after his death, but arguably warped his legacy. Instead of Lenin's body lying in state, we could have a holy vat of Leninade in Moscow Cathedral, which the people would sip from like holy wine (bearing in mind Communism was as anti-Christian as it was anti-deification, this would be a cute parallel).
- another cute joke would be the idea that the key ingredients ran out during the 20s, and had to be substituted. One of my favourite passages from 1984 has a very funny idea about the way information was falsified:
Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all.
- moving forward, it would also be possible to take a potshot at Putin's simultaneous westernisation/anti-westernisation of Russia, possibly with an oligarch gaining control of the company that produces Leninade at the fall of the regime, maybe gaining a contract to have it in McDonald's first Russian Franchises, and also you could do something about the ingredients changing/being bastardised to resemble other western drinks. Maybe a joke about how it has become as horrible as sprite/mountain dew/7up is would be funny. Leverage (talk) 08:45, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
- (log in) I quite like that.
MUN MyOwnBadSelf, The HMC Writer (talk - stalk - block) 10:08, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
I added the ideas above. We now have a bit of a clash of styles however. If you want to follow my lead and make it more encyclopaedic, one possibility would be to convert your LENINADE: A TASTE WORTH STANDING IN LINE FOR! bit into an image and say it was some sort of communist poster.
Another joke that occurs to me with your british spy reference is to do some kind of reference to all the british spys who worked for russia in the 1950s and 1960s - Philby, Burgess, et al. They were secret Leninade drinkers (a reference to this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hro4AdTYiTA ) Leverage (talk) 17:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
This is beautiful. 
LDA MyOwnBadSelf, 'Does it look different enough for y'all?' (talk - stalk - block) 23:01, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Because the best ideas always come too late...[edit source]
I missed the chance to add a joke about E. M. Forster in the 'British spies' section. LDA MyOwnBadSelf, 'Does it look different enough for y'all?' (talk - stalk - block) 02:10, 15 November 2017 (UTC)