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From: Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian Randell)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Pied Piper of Hamelin updated
Keywords: chuckle, topical
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Date: 16 Sep 89 07:20:05 GMT
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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'."

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Brian Randell, Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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