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- From: DLVGC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.soviet
- Subject: Re: Soviet emigre ACCOUNTANT jokes
- Message-ID: <92358.184839DLVGC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 23:48:39 GMT
- References: <D0L1VB1w165w@bwalk.dm.com> <1992Dec22.202139.20081@erg.sri.com><1harmgINNjsn@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1harmgINNjsn@agate.berkeley.edu>, muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky)
- says:
- >I heard this one ages ago. I'm not old enough to say it was before TV, but
- >this is close enough. Different characters each time. Last ten or so time
- >they were chuckchas.
- Like most well-known jokes, this one is _centuries_ old.
- My favorite versions are about the chukcha golddigger being interrogated
- by the KGB thru an interpreter (the gold is buried in by choom...) and
- about the deaf-mute accountant who works for the Mafia (again, an
- interpreter is needed because he only uses sign language). In all the
- versions, A and B comminicate through an interpreter, A threatens B with
- death if he doesn't reveal the whereabout of the treasure, B 'fesses up,
- but the interpreter says he calls A's bluff. The implication is that
- A will kill B and the interpreter will retrieve the treasure later.
- Clearly, it couldn't have been invented later than the Crusades.
-
- Dimitri
- Disclaimer: at CUNY one should cry, not laugh
-