Forwarded by rupa at rupa.com (Rupa Schomaker)
From: euatdt at euas11g.ericsson.se (Torsten Dahlkvist)
Subject: A different Polish joke
Keywords: funny, originally appeared in second quarter, 1989
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:20:00 PST
This one may be old on the net (I certainly heard it a number of years
ago), but in case you haven't heard it before, here goes a story the
Polish tell about Russians...
A Russian party-official arrives late at night to his hotel (in
Russia). He is not surprised to find that his reservation has been
mislaid but he is more than a little peeved that his status in the
party isn't enough to get him a good room anyway. However, the clerk
insists, the only bed they have left is the fourth bunk in a 4-bed dorm
-- he'll have to make do with that. The Russian grumbles but
eventually he picks up his suitcase and heads for the dorm. On his
way, he meets a chamber-maid and thinking he might as well try to make
friends with his room-mates, he asks her to bring them four cups of
tea.
As he enters the dorm, he finds that the other three guests are Polish,
they are having a fairly wild party and they're *very* drunk. They
also ignore him totally from the moment he enters. After sitting there
for several minutes, he realizes he can't stand them anymore and
decides to pull a joke on them. He stands up, grasps a floor lamp and
speaking into the light-bulb as if it were a microphone he says:
"Comrade Colonel, we would like four cups of tea to our room immediately!"
The Poles stare at him in disbelief, which turns to horror as the
chamber-maid knocks on the door and delivers the tea a few minutes
later. In about 30 seconds the Poles have all packed their bags and
fled the hotel. Our Russian gets the entire room to himself. He
sleeps very soundly.
The next morning, however, as he's checking out and is about to leave,
the desk-clerk calls after him:
"By the way, Sir, the Comrade Colonel said to tell you he appreciated
your little joke last night!"
As I said, this is a joke the Polish tell about Russians...