Jokes about Soviet technology could backfire. When an 'important technological announcement' was bruited by Tass, one American wag's response was, "They're going to announce that they've invented the Waring Blender"; but what they announced was Sputnik;, and Tass then felt free to describe a new American 'Sputnik cocktail', made with two parts vodka and one part sour grapes.
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