Old Soviet joke On September 1, 1945, a second grade teacher asks her students who have war medals to share how they have helped the war effort. A little girl raises her hand. ""Yes, Tanechka"" says the teacher, ""do you have something to share?"" Tanechka says ""I was in the hospital helping to dress the wounds for the wounded soldiers."" ""That's great"" says the teacher ""and what did the soldiers say to you?"" ""They said 'Thank you, Tanya."" ""Very good, Tanechka. Petenka, what about you?""…

A joke/story about the Berlin Airlift So last year when I was taking AP US History we got to talking about the Cold War and the Berlin Airlift, which, if you didn't know, was when American/Allied forces dropped supplies into and evacuated East Berlin, which was under Soviet control. Now, it's worth noting that my teacher encouraged students to make puns off of the content, and actually had competitions between the class periods on who could get the most puns. Now as she was lecturing one kid, we…

A 'Cold War' joke I tought up today... It's early September, 1984. Children around the world are going back to school. Despite living on opposing sides of the Iron Curtain, two Mathematics teachers, one in the United States and the other in the Soviet Union, ask their respective classes the same question. ""OK class."" Said the American teacher, ""If I had three oranges, and I divided them fairly between four children, how many oranges would each child receive?"" Most of the children in his clas…

X-Post from /r/Standup: If I ever got on stage I'd give my version of the Teletubbies... Here's my skit on the Teletubbies. So I hate the Teletubbies. It's one of the most mindless children's shows I've ever seen. I sometimes had to watch it because my ex's nephew loved the show and when we baby sat him that's all he wanted to watch. To me all it is, is a bunch of weird looking giant different colored babies dancing around on an acid trip, with dumb shapes on their heads. How is this informative…