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From: gyuri@cvl.UUCP (Gyorgy Fekete)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Hungarian Jokes
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Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 08:14:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 08:14:17 1983
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Organization: U. of Md. Computer Vision Lab
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I heard these recently back in Budapest:

A big black car pulls over in front of a fancy hotel frequented by
foreign tourists. Two wooden jackets (Hungarian slang for cops literally
translated -- you wouldn't believe some of the weird expressions the Huns
have for things) are standing on the sidewalk. The tourist in the car
rolls down his window,
	"Do you speak English," he asks.
	"Nem ertem," goes the cop (Hung. for I don't understand)
	"Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"
	"Nem ertem"
	"Parlez-vous francais?"
	"Nem ertem"
	"Govoritye po russki?"
	"Nem ertem"
	..etc
until he gives up and drives away angrily. So one of the cops turns to
the other and says
	"It's about time we learned a foreign language, what?"
	"Naaah!" he replies, "look at this guy. He speaks seven
languages, and did he get anywhere with it?"

-george