Day: October 12, 2012

@ A visitor asked a native Russian to explain the new government policy of openness or “Perestroika” to him. He said, “Imagine I have two tin pails. One is empty and the other is full of potatoes. I keep pouring the potatoes back and forth from one bucket to the other.” The America asked, “I don’t get it. you keep moving the potatoes around, but nothing has changed.” The wily Russian said, “Ah, but the noise that it makes, that is Perestroika.”

* A sailor had been marooned alone in the deserted island for a year and finally was rescued. When rescue party came ashore in a small boat. They told the sailor to pack up and they would take him back to civilization. Before leaving the island he gave the rescue party a tour. “I built myself a house. That’s it there. Here’s the barn, and over here is the church I worshiped in.” The crew asked, “What’s that building over there?” The sailor stammered, “that’s the church I used to belong to.”

@ Three cellmates in the old Soviet Union were comiserating:  “I was jailed for coming in late to work” complained the first. “I came in too early and they said I was a spy,” the second complained. The third explained, “I came in exactly on time everyday and they said I had an American watch.”