When I was 8

[Evil Chris]

Originally Posted by Winetalk.com

The first blue jeans I bought in USSR were equal of 1 month salary
The first jeans I bought in USA were less than an hour salary.

EVERYTHING is relative in this imperfect world

I saw a documentary awhile back that did a study on the hockey players who played in that famous "Summit Series" in 1972.

For those who don't know, it was *THE* hockey contest between Canada and the USSR. An 8 game series with 4 games held in Canada, and 4 in Russia.

The study showed that all the Canadian players involved in that series all eventually went on to retire quite nicely as rich men, while the Russian players (save one or two) went on to live much less than wealthy and comfortable lives, with a handful of them even ending up broke and penniless.

Relative indeed.