Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian Randell) (09/16/89)
This joke appeared in yesterday's (UK) Sunday Times, in an article on East Germany, by Peter Millar: "Down at the Communist party offices they had a plague of rats. Along came a little girl who said she could get rid of them if they would promise her whatever she wanted. They agreed. So she took a clockwork mouse and trailed it behind her; all the rats followed her to the river, where she kicked the mouse in and they all drowned. The delighted communists asked her what she wanted. She said `a clockwork Russian soldier'." -- Brian Randell, Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL, yes MAIL your jokes to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. I will reply, mailers willing. Remember: Always give your jokes a descriptive "Subject:" line. Not "joke."