Re: Ada and QNX

[Igor Kovalenko <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com>]

Pat Rogers wrote:
> 
> "Igor Kovalenko" <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> wrote in message
> news:39ECE5C1.918BCF3B@motorola.com...
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> <snip>
> 
> > Indeed, humor was good sometimes.
> 
> I miss the jokes about the Soviet rulers; it seems the new leaders
> don't evoke the same need to laugh (to keep from crying, no doubt).
> (Although there are a few jokes about Yeltsin's drinking.)  You know,
> for example the one about Gorbachev, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, and Stalin
> riding on a train together, and it breaks down.  First they go to
> Stalin, who order the engineers shot.  The train starts again
> (mysteriously) but eventually breaks down again.  They go to
> Khrushchev, who orders the previously-shot engineers to be
> rehabilitated and returned to work.  The trains starts again, and
> eventually stops again.  Brezhnev says (indistinctly) "What train?".
> Same thing occurs, and Gorbachev says "Everybody out and push!".
> 

Two inhabitants of remote north-east Siberia (called chukchas, they are
close relatives of eskimoses) sit down on a shore fishing. One starts to
tell a joke about soviet rulers, the other listens and after a while
says: 'you should be careful telling this kind of jokes. one might go to
an exile for them'.

> What's an amateur Sovietologist (as opposed to Kremliniologist; I had
> no favorites) to do when the Soviets go away?

I noticed Hollywood switched to chineese. Try jokes about their leaders
then ;)

- igor