Posted on 11/09/2013 11:24:04 AM PST by virgil283
I think it was Yakov Smirnoff who had a routine in which he said that while in Russia, his father bought a car, with a promised delivery on a certain day five years from now. The father asked what time of day it would be delivered. The dealer asked him why that was important. He said that the plumber was also coming that day and he didn’t want a conflict.
HA! It must be old Soviet joke day.
Megan McArdle had one in her column today:
A man stands in line all day for bread, only to have the baker come out and say there is none. He loses it, and begins ranting about the government. Eventually, a man in a trench coat puts a hand on his shoulder.
“Be careful, comrade. You know, in the old days, it would have been …” and he mimes a gun pointed at the head.
The man walks home, dejected. When he walks in the door, his wife takes one look at his face and drops the plate she is holding.
“What’s wrong, Ivan? Were they out of bread?”
“It’s worse than that. They’re out of bullets.”
The title of her piece - Obamacare is running out of bullets.
When I was in Uzbekistan a local newspaper advertised a restaurant in Tashkent that featured Chinese & German cuisine.
It was said to be very good except a half hour later you were hungry again - for POWER!
(Got to be a `Hitler reacts’ joke in there somewhere)
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