The real question is: why CIA had classified Russian jokes on their file?
CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]
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#202Back in USSR, everyone thought that it is KGB who tracks these jokes and those who spread them. Who knew it was CIA all the time? :)
It's "all along". Not "all the time" )))
ex. Who knew it was the CIA all along?
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#203A man is walking down the street carrying a 12-roll pack of toilet paper. People surround him, all excited: "Where'd you get that?" The man answers, "I just got it back from the dry cleaner's!" (source: Viktor Suvorov's fascinating Kuzkina Mat [1]) [1]: http://andrewnurnberg.com/book/kuzkina-mat/
I don't get this one?
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#204Obligatory, the funniest joke in the world (weaponized) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienp4J3pW7U
I had one friend who thought that the botched peanut joke was the funniest thing she had ever heard. I got so sick of hearing "Zere vere 2 peanuts valking down ze strasse."
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#205Re: CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]
#206A bit different but here's my favorite European joke: An Italian politician invites his Greek politician friend over for a visit. The Greek pulls up in front of an elegant manor house and is welcomed by the staff. He walks in through a foyer with marble floors and a huge marble staircase with ornamental banisters and a crystal chandelier. They walk through to a lovely veranda overlooking the river, and sit down to ea…
For what is worth, essentially the same joke appears in The Hungarian Tiger by Tibor Fischer (a short book about how Viktor Orbán became Hungary PM, and why this is - all in all - a positive thing). I do not know if this joke was originated in Hungary, but I am Italian and I am pretty sure it's not an Italian joke.
I am italian as well and have been hearing this joke since the times of Craxi
Re: CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you refer to old(er) working class women with a hard life I don't see how any reasonable person can think that's even remotely a basis for a joke, given how much more beautiful Russian women look on average. Just walk around Russian cities. Having lived in the US for a decade and having been to Russia and Ukraine several times, sometimes for months living in a rented apartment, I know which country I'd choose…
Sounds like bias to me. We're genetically hard-wired to be attracted to those different to us. For example, I don't think that (on average) the locals where I live are particularly beautiful in comparison to other countries, but a lot of foreigners seem to disagree with me.
>We're genetically hard-wired to be attracted to those different to us.
Source?
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#208I like this one: Russian engineer got fed up of having all responsibility and low salary, so he moves to another city and pretends to be an ordinary worker, same salary and peace of mind. However, not long after communist party sends him to evening classes. On his first day there at maths class he was asked about circle circumference formula, but for some reason he could not remember it off hand, so he goes on blackb…
Heh, we had the exact same joke when I was growing up in Poland. It's a hidden critique of the system,which is a best kind of joke.
Once whole population has been disarmed that is the only weapon...
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#209A soviet village with only a bull purchased a cow from Irkutsk. But the cow would not let the bull mount her. No matter what the bull did, the cow moved the other way so that mating was impossible.
The villagers brought in an expert government official who inspected the bull and cow's behavior.
He asked the villagers, "Did you get this cow from Irkutsk?"
They responded, "Wow. That's amazing. How did you know?"
"My wife is from Irkutsk."
Re: CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]
#210Back in USSR, everyone thought that it is KGB who tracks these jokes and those who spread them. Who knew it was CIA all the time? :)
It's "all along". Not "all the time" ))) ex. Who knew it was the CIA all along?
"All the time" isn't that far off. "All this time" is more idiomatic, but the parent poster's meaning is still quite clear.