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In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you!
Yakov Smirnoff
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Yakov Smirnoff
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 24
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Yakov Naumovich Pokhis
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In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.
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