A Russian one (slightly NSFW) In fact it's not a joke, it's what we call 'baika' here, a funny story from someone's life. So here it goes A company of friends goes to Finnland. They move into a cottage village and one of them has to take a shit after this really long way 'train - ferryboat - bus'. And it turns out to be a big-big shit. He presses the button to flush and the thing doesn't work. So the guy realizes he doesn't speak Finnish and chambermaids presumably don't speak Russian. But Soviet education system is the best in the world, and finally he finds two words in English that could help him. He goes out, finds a chambermaid and says to her: ā Come! She follows him to the WC, he shows this really big pile of shit and says: ā Look! He presses the button, and... it works! *sorry for my English*