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The "perfectly safe russian slide" in the URL hearkens back to my college days, when Goldeneye ruled the console. One of the great things about that game was that almost anything would explode if you shot it enough. So the joke became about how safe all of these cheap, post-Soviet consumer goods were. "Is good, Russian chair!" *shoot chair, chair explodes*