Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cadomin.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!alberta!cadomin!andrew From: andrew@cadomin.UUCP (Andrew Folkins) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Cashier wants zipcode? Message-ID: <653@cadomin.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 13:47:39 EST Article-I.D.: cadomin.653 Posted: Tue Jan 14 13:47:39 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jan-86 17:43:33 EST References: <40@decwrl.UUCP> <17000024@hpfcmt.UUCP> <461@codas.ATT.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@cadomin.UUCP (Andrew Folkins) Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Lines: 23 Summary: In article <461@codas.ATT.UUCP> mikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius) writes: >> "Show me a country where the newspapers are filled with good news >> and I'll show you a country where the jails are filled with good people." >> - > >In the Soviet Union, there are two newspapers, "The Truth", and "The News" >(translated to english), they are mutually exclussive. >-- > Mikel Manitius @ AT&T-IS Altamonte Springs, FL > ...{ihnp4|akgua|bellcore|clyde|koura}!codas!mikel Or, to put it another way, "Izvestia nyet pravda, Pravda nyet izvestia". ('Pravda' means truth, 'izvestia' means news) ( Please, not flames about "How many netters does it take to submit a joke" (for those of you who don't know the answer, check out the canonical collection of lightbulb jokes (no! not YALBJ!!) which was recently posted)) -- Andrew Folkins ...ihnp4!alberta!andrew All ideas in this message are fictional. Any resemblance, to any idea, living or dead, is purely coincidental.