gmohr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Gordon Mohr) (02/12/90)
RONALD MCDONALD DEFEATS KARL MARX Moscow (Feb. 7) - Recent events leave no room for doubt: McDonald's restaurants cause democracy. One week of fast, courteous service has acheived political pluralism where 70 years of U.S. foreign policy could not. To review recent events: JAN 31: The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. Twenty-seven lines and a seating capacity of almost 700 ensure that mass indoctrination will be hasty. FEB 4: Hundreds of thousands demonstrate for a more open political system in the largest protest since the Russian Revolution. Heard chanted by the crowds late into the evening: "McFreedom! McFreedom!" FEB 7: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union overwhelmingly votes to abolish its legal monopoly on power. -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. I will reply, mailers willing. Remember: If you POST your joke instead of mailing it, I will not reply.