Thank you Nikolaus von Twickel, I just saw your Expat.ru nomination for best Dry/Wet Cleaner in Moscow and I must say I am very impressed. It will be hard to beat your nomination of President Service right next to McD's at Metro Smolenskaya. If someone can top your nomination we all win regardless.
At first I thought Nikolaus was making a variant of the usual political joke about "people being taken to the cleaners by politicians" with a company named Presidential Service. How wrong I was ! In reply I will add my Best FREE Business Card nomination of IdeaPrint ( www.ideaprint.ru) first submitted by Charles Borden back on Dec 10, 2010. If you pay for business cards after reading this than you don't believe in Ded Morose. Yes Samantha there is a Ded Morose(Santa Claus). I checked-out(verified) the service and here is the "deal". You go to the Idea Print office which is "a stone's throw" from the same Metro Smolenskaya mentioned above. You exit the Metro and walk straight past McD's for one block down to 45-C1 Денежный Пер. It is at the first T intersection less than 100m from McD's. You will see the Idea Print sign at the second floor of the building. Their door under their sign goes downstairs. At the bottom turn left and ask-for(summon) anyone there who deals-with(processes) free business cards today. If you make-up(create) your own card using MS Word and bring the file on a flashcard each 100 cards printed is 100% Totally FREE. If you have the attendant create your biz card their it will cost you a one-time fee of 300p. You can make minor card design tweaks in future batches. Each 100 printed is free. I am on my 4th set of 100 free biz cards. I paid the 300p set-up fee so that means my amortized cost per biz is now 75 kopeks and falling. When you run-out(finish) of each 100 biz cards you just call-up(telephone) the Idea Print office and they make another 100 free cards which are ready after 17:00 the next business day. "What's the catch?" as we Yanks and Brits say. Well, on the back of each card is a small "tastefully" located IdeaPrint advert with their name, workphone and website. Nice thing is that each person who receives your card is also invited to get Totally FREE or almost Totally FREE biz cards. If you want to quit paying 10+ rubles per biz card, here is your solution if you can live-with(tolerate) the advert. But heck, you are giving-away(presenting) to each recipient a podarik with your biz card. That increases your probability that they won't throw-away(trash-US, bin-UK) it immediately. All above phrasal verbs were hyphenated and one-word-verb synonymed for Russians who care about PVs. You just got a week's worth of Native English exposure in 3 minutes. My apologies to the Yanks and Brits for being redundant. I know I "bored the heck" out of you. We Native English Speakers (NESs) haven't hyphenated our phrasal verbs for over 400 years(ex. "Gov't bailed out US banks"), although, thankfully, we still hyphenate PVs when we use them as a noun or adjective (ex's. "the bail-out worked", "bail-out policy" respectively). Good show Nikolaus ! George Dole ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *Цитата:* "Удача происходит, когда подготовка соответствует возможности". - Сенека *Quote: *"Luck occurs when preparation meets opportunity". - Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Roman philosopher from mid-1st century AD. My Linkedin.com account for Dr. George W. Dole is: http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgewilliamdole http://www.toeflmoscow.ru
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