Re: Ada and QNX

["Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>]

"Igor Kovalenko" <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> wrote in message
news:39EDBB20.1C2349FD@motorola.com...
> Pat Rogers wrote:
> >
> > "Igor Kovalenko" <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> wrote in message
> > news:39ECE5C1.918BCF3B@motorola.com...
> >
> > <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 ;)

For some, that situation is more cause for crying than laughing.

And now I think we've taken this thread sufficiently far astray...