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failure with
plays on the name of the
Russian satellite, Sputnik, such as "
Flopnik", "Kaputnik", "Oopsnik", "Dudnick" and "Stayputnik". The failure, reported...
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international joke. The
satellite appeared in
newspapers under the
names Flopnik, Stayputnik, Kaputnik, and Dudnik. In the
United Nations, the
Soviet delegate...
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launch of the U.S.
satellite rival to Sputnik, such as kaputnik,
dudnik and
flopnik among others. The
suffix existed in
English for a long time. An example...
- in an embarr****ing fashion; the
missile was
facetiously referred to as "
Flopnik" and "Stay-putnik." To many, the
success of the
Soviet satellite program...
