Joanna
John Mage wrote:
>
> Wojtsek posted a link to a BBC piece on trains v. planes that included
> this line:
> > Unlike rail operators, airlines are not limited to a fixed track, so
> > the skies have vastly more capacity than Britain's clogged train
> > network.
>
> The first "New Russian" joke I ever heard:
>
> New Russian, drunk, gets on the trolley bus (for USers - an electric bus
> that gets power from overhead wires) and asks the driver to leave him
> off at his house, giving him his address. The driver says that he can't,
> the address is not where the wires go. New Russian gives the driver 5000
> rubles, and says "take me home." The driver thinks 5000 is 5000, the
> battery should make it there easily, and when he gets near leaves the
> wires and goes into the New Russian's street. The pavement is totally
> smashed up and there's a big trench, so the driver stops and says this
> is as close as I can get - by the way, why happened here? The New
> Russian says - last night I took the subway home.
>
> john mage
>
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