Romanian Youth Voice

The “cucumber” sketch in the case concerning Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania vs. Ukraine)

Madam President, there is a famous sketch based on the writings of a classic Romanian author about a professor examining his student. It is known as the “cucumber” sketch. The story goes like this. The professor asks the student to give the lesson on tomatoes.
And the student answers: “The tomato is a vegetable, as is the cucumber. The cucumber belongs to the plant family of Cucurbitaceae and has 90 per cent water.” Then the professor asks the student what is a potato. And the student answers: “Well, the potato is a vegetable, as is the cucumber, which has 90 per cent water.” Well, then the professor asks what the student can tell him about mathematics. And the student answers, mathematics is a science, exactly as biology which deals with vegetables, among them the cucumber, which has 90 per cent water. Whatever the professor asks the student, he refers only to the cucumber! And this is Ukraine’s method here. Whatever Ukraine tries to argue in this case, it comes to the same cucumber - its alleged coastal predominance. But unlike the cucumber in the sketch, Ukraine’s “cucumber” is not entitled to the water it claims.

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02.02.2009. 15:47

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david 20.06.2009. 11:04

so, ”But unlike the cucumber in the sketch, Ukraine’s “cucumber” is not entitled to the water it claims” ...


:))

nice joke!