RUSSIAN JOKES
Apparently even the Russians have the ability to laugh at themselves. They pass around stories such as the following, which is one of President Reagan’s favorites of this genre: It seems a Russian citizen wanted to buy a car. He goes to the official agency and puts his money down and is told by the clerk that he can take delivery of his automobile in exactly 10 years. The purchaser asks the clerk, “Morning or afternoon?” The official replies, “Ten years from now, morning or afternoon, what difference does it make?” The car buyer says, “Well, the plumber’s coming in the morning.” Another Russian joke is the one about the party official who asks a farmer how things are going, and the farmer replies that the harvest is so bountiful that the potatoes would reach the “foot of God” if piled on top of one another. The commissar says, “But this is the Soviet Union, there is no God here.” The farmer…
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