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April 3, 2006
A Joke, Comrade
Via Joi Ito, a funny joke:
Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev are on a train heading towards communism.
Suddenly the conductor says, "Oh noes! There are no rails left. We can not move on."
Lenin says, "no problem, Saturday is Lenin day and we will all work for free and cut down trees and build the rails."
Then Stalin says, "no, we must find out whose fault this is and kill them."
Khrushchev disagrees and says, "no, we can plant corn in the fields, sell the corn to the American and we can buy the railroad."
Brezhnev says, "no, we must all sit in the train and sway back and forward so we have the appearance of forward motion towards communism."
Finally Gorbachev stands up and says, "Comrandes, you don't understand the modern times. There is a new spirit of glasnost and perestroika. We need more transparency. We need more openness." At this point, he opens the windows and starts shouting, "there are no rails! There are no rails!"
Posted by dag at April 3, 2006 12:19 PM