The Off Topic Topic

[Liep]

Picking the right prefixes are another mess unto themselves. 

Indeed, за- I've seen before as used to begin the verb, so here I can make sense of it. Thanks btw!

[11B4V]

Hell, I'm the token Redneck and I couldnt tell'ya.

So tell me.

Sorry, spelling error. I'm only the second generation standing upright

[11B4V]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ruckus

[Liep]

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I am pretty sure "позвонить" is mostly used if you are "calling" someone.  A "ringing" phone probably uses a different prefix.  And google tells me it's зазвонить... 

Picking the right prefixes are another mess unto themselves. 

Try writing the code to remove that shit and find the base word.

[garbon]

Grammar language makes me cry.

Why am I not surprised?

[Admiral Yi]

Was listening to the BBC portion of NPR last night on the drive home from the casino.  Did a story about crying.

Americans of both genders are the top cryers.  Icelandic women, Bulgarian men, and Rumanian women cry the least.

[Eddie Teach]

That story makes me sad. 

[Admiral Yi]

I had to pull over on the shoulder i was bawling so hard.

[Liep]

Our PM rocks the kevlar west pretty good, at least better than our last overweight PM.

[Eddie Teach]

RED- the eyes of crying men. BLACK- the emptiness of the wallet.

Or maybe you were playing craps.

[Admiral Yi]

Or maybe you were playing craps.

Yup.  New chick shooter showed up, made like 8 points before she crapped out.  So I cashed out.

[CountDeMoney]

Sucks that Verizon Wireless can only allow 10 phone numbers to be blocked for inbound calls.
There's some cold-call travel outfit in Ft. Lauderdale that has more than 10 numbers in its phone bank calling me every 2 days trying to get me to buy a cruise package, and they won't take No for an answer.

[Grey Fox]

There's an app for that.

[DGuller]

Sitting and watching would be imperfective, because they are indefinite processes(even though they happened in the past).  The ringing phone would be perfective (it happened once and was done), as would be mom calling.

It could be worse...the sitting and watching could also be formed as past active participles. 

I'll just avoid the participles for now. So "Однажды, когда я сидел дома и смотрел телевизор, телефон вдруг позвонил. Это выла моя старая мама, которая позвонила."?

I don't think you meant "выла".