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- From: vlad@erg.sri.com (vlad)
- Subject: Re: Soviet emigre ACCOUNTANT jokes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.202139.20081@erg.sri.com>
- Keywords: Soviet emigres, accountants
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- Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:21:39 GMT
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- Can some expert on movies and TV help me resolve a nagging question?
-
- In article <D0L1VB1w165w@bwalk.dm.com> dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dimitri Vulis) writes:
- >
- >The Brighton Beach mob employed an American accountant who knew no Russian, but
- >was married to a Soviet emigre woman who acted as a translator. After ten years
- >for service, the mobsters double-checked their books and discovered that they
- >were almost a million dollars short. So they fetch the accountant and his wife
- >and question him.
- >
- >``Tell him we want to know where the missing money is,'' says one of the
- >gangsters to the wife. She translates, the accountant responds, in English, that
- >he has no idea, and she translates that back into Russian.
- >
- >The gangster takes out a shotgun, places it against the accountant's forehead
- >and says to the wife: ``Tell him, if he doesn't tell us now, I'll splatter his
- >brains all over the room.''
- >
- >The accountant, without waiting for the translation, starts: ``All the cash is
- >stored in shoeboxes in my closet...''
- >
- >The wife says: ``He's saying you're bluffing.''
-
- First of all, I would like to thank Dimitri for his two things.
- First, some of the jokes that he posts are very funny.
- Second, he presents a intersting challenge to the reader to figure out
- where his jokes originally come from. That is, before he substituted
- "Soviet emigre" characters for the original characters. Sort of, like
- substituting X in a math problem for the actual value of X and asking the
- reader to figure out the value of X. I have no idea why he does that but,
- guessing from the fact that he
- crossposts both to rec.humor and soc.culture.soviet, my guess is that he
- wants his fellow Soviet emigrants to enjoy American jokes and thinks that
- his fellow Russian emigres can only understand jokes that mention them "by
- name".
-
- In any case, I have a slight problem "solving" the above joke. I know that
- it comes from a story about a band of Meixcans that steals a treasure from
- some American bandits. The Americans catch the Mexicans and kill all of
- them but their leader. Then they torture the leader and tell him that they
- would kill him if he did not tell them where the loot was. The Mexican
- tells the translator where it is, and the translator says ``He's saying
- you're bluffing.''
-
- But was it from a movie or a TV show? Which one?
-
- Thanks in advance!
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- Vlad
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