cfajs@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Tony Schaeffer) (03/22/91)
A colleague in my department tells this story. He emigrated from Russia to Israel, and then from Israel to the USA. Besides being a mathematician, he has had to be a linguist. An American couple was visiting an Eastern European country. While they were waiting at the border, they were talking to three soldiers who knew some English. The soldiers were trying to explain why one of the historical royal lines had died out. The first soldier explains. "The queen, she was unbearable." The second soldier interrupts. "No, no. Please excuse. My friend does not speak English good. The queen, she was inconceivable." The third soldier cannot contain himself and has to say "No, no, NO! Please excuse my friends. Their English is not very well. They mean the queen, she was impregnable." -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA If you mail to original@looking.on.ca, it makes sure that your joke is tagged as your original work, and thus eligible for the RHF comedy awards. Always attribute the source of a joke, whether it's you, or somebody else.