FUNNY - Reagan Liked To Tell Soviet Russia Jokes
President Ronald Reagan on the Russians: ''You know I have a recent hobby,'' the President remarked in a speech on economic matters earlier this month. ''I have been collecting stories that I can tell, or prove are being told by the citizens of the Soviet Union among themselves, which display not only a sense of humor but their feeling about their system.'' President Reagan then told his current favorite, about a Russian who wants to buy a car. A Matter of Delivery...
The man goes to the official agency, puts down his money and is told that he can take delivery of his automobile in exactly 10 years.
''Morning or afternoon?'' the purchaser asks. ''Ten years from now, what difference does it make?'' replies the clerk.
''Well,'' says the car-buyer, ''the plumber's coming in the morning.''
Stories like this are coming to the President from all directions now: from the Central Intelligence Agency, for example, from foreign dignitaries and from a Soviet emigre comedian in Los Angeles.
Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, says the President prizes them because they give him ''a way of pointing up the differences between Russian and American society, but without a harsh edge.''
''These stories accurately reflect the President's attitude toward the Soviet Union,'' Mr. Fitzwater said, ''that the people are exploited by the government. He has a lot of sympathy for the Russian people. That's a very strong Reagan attitude.''
Another example from the President's current cache of Soviet stories concerns an American who tells a Russian that the United States is so free he can stand in front of the White House and yell, ''To hell with Ronald Reagan.'' The Russian replies: ''That's nothing. I can stand in front of the Kremlin and yell, 'To hell with Ronald Reagan,' too.''
Mr. Reagan obviously delights in gathering and retelling these stories. But, as a veteran screen actor used to repeating the same lines dozens of times, he has a tendency to wear out a favorite story. Reporters traveling with him in the 1984 campaign grew thoroughly tired of the one about the commissar who is visiting a Soviet potato farm. At the 'Foot of God'
The party official asks a farmer how things are going, and the farmer replies that the harvest is so bountiful that the potatoes would reach the ''foot of God'' if piled on top of one another.
''But this is the Soviet Union,'' says the commissar, ''there is no God here.'' The farmer replies, ''That's all right, there are no potatoes, either.''
More in Reagan's Collection-
* What are the four things wrong with Soviet agriculture? Spring, summer, winter and fall.
* What is the definition of a Communist? Someone who has read the works of Marx and Lenin. What is the definition of an anti-Communist? Someone who understands the works of Marx and Lenin. From Many Sources
The man goes to the official agency, puts down his money and is told that he can take delivery of his automobile in exactly 10 years.
''Morning or afternoon?'' the purchaser asks. ''Ten years from now, what difference does it make?'' replies the clerk.
''Well,'' says the car-buyer, ''the plumber's coming in the morning.''
Stories like this are coming to the President from all directions now: from the Central Intelligence Agency, for example, from foreign dignitaries and from a Soviet emigre comedian in Los Angeles.
Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, says the President prizes them because they give him ''a way of pointing up the differences between Russian and American society, but without a harsh edge.''
''These stories accurately reflect the President's attitude toward the Soviet Union,'' Mr. Fitzwater said, ''that the people are exploited by the government. He has a lot of sympathy for the Russian people. That's a very strong Reagan attitude.''
Another example from the President's current cache of Soviet stories concerns an American who tells a Russian that the United States is so free he can stand in front of the White House and yell, ''To hell with Ronald Reagan.'' The Russian replies: ''That's nothing. I can stand in front of the Kremlin and yell, 'To hell with Ronald Reagan,' too.''
Mr. Reagan obviously delights in gathering and retelling these stories. But, as a veteran screen actor used to repeating the same lines dozens of times, he has a tendency to wear out a favorite story. Reporters traveling with him in the 1984 campaign grew thoroughly tired of the one about the commissar who is visiting a Soviet potato farm. At the 'Foot of God'
The party official asks a farmer how things are going, and the farmer replies that the harvest is so bountiful that the potatoes would reach the ''foot of God'' if piled on top of one another.
''But this is the Soviet Union,'' says the commissar, ''there is no God here.'' The farmer replies, ''That's all right, there are no potatoes, either.''
More in Reagan's Collection-
* What are the four things wrong with Soviet agriculture? Spring, summer, winter and fall.
* What is the definition of a Communist? Someone who has read the works of Marx and Lenin. What is the definition of an anti-Communist? Someone who understands the works of Marx and Lenin. From Many Sources
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