[TAG] Department of Homeland Security funding Open Source projects

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:45:58AM -0500, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> On February 19, 2006 04:46, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
>>> Farley Mowatt, in his "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float", relates a story
>>> about the train that runs (well, perhaps "runs" is far too athletic a
>>> term) across Newfoundland, from Port aux Basques to St. John's.  The
>>> locals, in their fine humorous spirit, have nicknamed this fleet
>>> creature - which has been known to take four weeks to cross this
>>> 500-mile stretch - "The Newfoundland Bullet".
>> Sadly, the Newfie Bullet was discontinued in 1988. It was supplanted by the 
>> Newfoundland leg of the Trans-Canada Highway, and (outside of a 
>> historical/cultural POV) was no longer necessary by the early '70s.
> 
> Oh, I don't know about "no longer necessary"... in 1965, the year after
> the forced retirement of Khruschev, the citizens of Odessa petitioned
> the Soviet government to reinstate The Great Peasant [1]. When asked
> why, they replied "better two years without bread than a year without
> jokes!" 
> 

I found a page of Russian jokes the other day. Quite a lot of Stalin 
jokes :)

Stalin was giving a speech, when someone in the audience sneezed. Stalin 
stopped, and looked at the audience.

"Who sneezed?"

No-one answered. Stalin pointed at a man in the front row.

"Shoot him"

The guards complied, the audience began to shake.

"Who sneezed?"

Still, no-one answered. Stalin pointed at a man in the fourth row.

"Shoot him"

Again, the guard complied. Some members of the audience began to sob 
silently.

"Who sneezed?"

Slowly, a man in one of the back rows began to rise, shivering.

"I sneezed"

"Bless you".