Subj : Slogan of Russian magazine "Znanie - sila"
To   : Denis Mosko
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Mar 05 2021 16:21:12

  Re: Slogan of Russian magazine "Znanie - sila"
  By: Denis Mosko to Anton Shepelev on Fri Mar 05 2021 20:27:11

 AS>> I understood it as "Knowledge is power, France is Bacon".
 AS>> For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the

 DM> I reply to understand Your joke:
 DM> Is penny with bacon/beacon?

the person's name is "Francis Bacon"... "Francis" sounds like "France is"...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

it is an english pronounciation play on words that sound similar...


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