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 #3 (permalink) Tue Jan 29, 2008 22:06 pm A joke: echo of the cold war |
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Great joke, Alex. |
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Jan 29, 2008 23:34 pm A joke: echo of the cold war |
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lol
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:06 am A joke: echo of the cold war |
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| it is funny~ but what does "counenance" mean? |
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| #7 (permalink) Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:48 am A joke: echo of the cold war |
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He-he, you, guys, never withdraw, eh?  |
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| #8 (permalink) Wed Jan 30, 2008 21:18 pm A joke: echo of the cold war |
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| Lost soul: do you have any more American-Russian jokes? Here where I live Russian-German-Poles jokes are popular. Not that they're too clever or funny, but because of our past most people love them. |
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Aro
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| #9 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:47 am A joke: echo of the cold war |
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| Quote: | An American, a Frenchman and a Russian find an old bottle on the beach. They remove the stopper, and a genie flies out. He's so grateful to be free that he offers each of them one wish.
The American wishes for an enormous amount of money, a mansion on the Pacific coast, cars, women, and everything that goes along with a very luxurious lifestyle. POOF! The genie gives it to him.
The Frenchman's wish is similar to the American's. He wants a villa on the Mediterranean, lots of money, luxuries and women. POOF! He gets it.
The Russian isn't so materialistic. He tells the genie, "My neighbor has a goat, and I don't have one. KILL MY NEIGHBOR'S GOAT!" |
| Quote: | Q: What was the difference between the Soviet constitution and the American constitution?
A: The Soviet constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. The American constitution guarantees freedom AFTER speech and freedom AFTER assembly. |
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| #10 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 15:34 pm A joke: echo of the cold war |
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| Haha, we have a similar joke to the first one. A Pole, a German and a Russian find a bottle, a genie comes out and so on. The German says "I want to be rich above any measure", the Russian says the same and the Poles' wish is: I want them to be poor again. |
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| #11 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 18:24 pm A joke: echo of the cold war |
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| Aro wrote: | | Haha, we have a similar joke to the first one. A Pole, a German and a Russian find a bottle, a genie comes out and so on. The German says "I want to be rich above any measure", the Russian says the same and the Poles' wish is: I want them to be poor again. |
The funny thing is that Americans don't have a joke like that, that I know of. We think they're funny, but we have to get them from the East Europeans. We Americans are often characters in those jokes, but we don't have them ourselves. We even had to borrow the word schadenfreude from German. |
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| #12 (permalink) Fri Feb 01, 2008 13:32 pm A joke: echo of the cold war |
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| Jamie: what about other jokes? I mean, I know you guys very often make some jokes on French, English, or Irish. As far as I remember you also do have something like "Polak jokes" (sorry if I misspelt it) that are mostly making fun of Polish people, do you know any? |
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| #13 (permalink) Fri Feb 01, 2008 13:49 pm A joke: echo of the cold war |
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| Aro wrote: | | Jamie: what about other jokes? I mean, I know you guys very often make some jokes on French, English, or Irish. As far as I remember you also do have something like "Polak jokes" (sorry if I misspelt it) that are mostly making fun of Polish people, do you know any? |
I know a lot of "Polak" jokes, but many of them are so offensive that I don't want to tell them here. They're usually the same jokes that are told about other ethnicities anyway. Many of them are the same jokes that East Europeans tell about policemen. Some Polak jokes are actually sight gags, and they're impossible to post on a message board.
The jokes about the Irish are usually told by the Irish-Americans themselves, and since my ethnicity is not Irish, I don't know any. I don't think I've ever heard an American joke in my whole life that makes fun of the English. Americans usually feel affectionate toward and protective of the English. There are a lot of jokes about Jews, but they are mostly told by Jews.
Here's one about the French:
| Quote: | | When an American sees a rich man ride by in a limousine, he dreams of the day when maybe he too will be able to ride in a limousine. When a Frenchman sees a rich man ride by in a limousine, he dreams of the day when he'll be able to pull the rich man out of the limousine and force him to wait for the bus. |
Oh, wait a minute! Maybe that's not a joke! |
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| #14 (permalink) Fri Feb 01, 2008 16:57 pm A joke: echo of the cold war |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | The jokes about the Irish are usually told by the Irish-Americans themselves, and since my ethnicity is not Irish, I don't know any. |
That's true for most jokes in Ireland as well. You mostly hear Paddy (label for Irish people in general) jokes.
An example: Paddy Irishman, Tommy Englishman and Mac Scotsman go swimming. They see a helter-skelter and think it a good idea to go for a slide. Tommy Englishman is first up on top, and suddenly a genie pops up. "Today's you're lucky day, everyone is granted a wish!", she proclaims. Tommy Englishman says "I wanna dive into a pool of lager!", goes down the slide and splashes into a see of lager. Then Mac Scotsman gets down the slide and shouts "Gimme a pool of whiskey!", and sure enough he jets headlong into lashings of finest Scotch. Paddy Irishman is next, and, without further ado, he slips down the slide without saying anything. "What's it gotta be?", the genie shouts after him, but all she can hear is him go "Weeeeeeeeee". She hesitates for a few second before she says "If need be, fair enough!"
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