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In the next issue of FP, we're publishing a group of articles on political humor around the world, ranging from funny-ha-ha to self-protective sarcasm to subtly subversive irony. Not surprisingly, this has been a lot of fun to work on, and we wanted to invite you, our readers, to join in. We're inviting you to send us your political jokes from around the world. Submit in the comments section, and we'll publish our favorites when we post the rest of the stories. To kick things off, here's a classic from Communist Romania:

The Americans sent a CIA agent to Romania to shoot the dangerous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The agent arrives in the country, finds the dictator addressing a large crowd, picks up his sniper rifle… and can't shoot. He raises it again… and can't shoot. A final time, he lifts the gun, but he just can't do it. When he returns home to report to his supervisor about the failure of his mission, the chief asks what happened. "Well," the agent said. "Each time, it started out great: I had a clean shot, I was ready to go -- and then the crowd saw what I was about to do and started chanting: Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him!"

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DUNNAM04

8:49 PM ET

November 12, 2010

Deep Space Nationalism

Three teams of astronauts, an American team, German team, and Serbian team, are sent on an exploratory mission to one of Jupiter's moons. After a safe landing the three teams suit up and step out onto the surface. They soon begin to quarrel over which nation gets to lay claim to this moon.

One of the Americans declares, "I hereby claim this moon as property of the U.S.A. If it were not for our heavy investment in space travel this trip would not have happened!

One of the Germans then declares, "Nein! This moon shall belong to Deutschland! It was our scientists and physicists who made this possible!"

One of the Serbians then draws a gun from his spacesuit and shoots his fellow Serbian who collapses dead onto the rocky surface.

He yells, "Serbian blood has been drawn here! This moon belongs to SERBIA!!!

 

NICOLAS19

7:55 AM ET

November 15, 2010

Cold War

During the Cold War, the US decides to send and agent to the USSR. Lets call him Juri.
Juri arrives and tries to blend in, enlists in the military. However, his superior has doubts:
-Juri, Juri, I thinks you’re an American spy!
-No way! Test me if you don’t believe me.
So Juri gets tested. He has to drink two litres of vodka in one sitting, wrestle with a grizzly bear and take a naked bath in the icy waters. He passes all tests with great success.
-Juri, Juri, I still have doubts over you!
-But why? I’ve done everything to prove I’m as good a Russian as you.
-Certainly… except that you’re black.

 

OSPREY

10:02 AM ET

November 15, 2010

Polish humor

Another Samoobrona member, serving as a member of the European Parliament, recently faced allegations of raping a sex worker in Belgium.

At the time, Lepper was harshly criticised for his light-hearted reaction to the allegations. "How can you rape a prostitute?," he asked reporters as he chuckled.

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ANDRé SABOYA

7:08 PM ET

November 15, 2010

Note from a Delegate at the UN

- With the help of Greece, may I invade Djibouti?

 

GRIFPETERSON

6:53 PM ET

November 16, 2010

Lenin, Stalin, and Brezhnev

Lenin, Stalin, and Brezhnev are all travelling together in on a train. Unexpectedly the train stops. Lenin suggests: "Perhaps, we should call a subbotnik, so that workers and peasants fix the problem." Stalin puts his head out of the window and shouts, "If the train does not start moving, the driver will be shot!" But the train doesn't start moving. Brezhnev then says, "Comrades, Comrades, let's draw the curtains, turn on the gramophone and pretend we're moving!"

 

TACOROCCO

2:44 PM ET

November 18, 2010

I don't want to make Burek!

The Serbian police found an old Gypsy sitting by the Belgrade train station repeatedly screaming: "I don't want to make Burek!, I don't want to make Burek!...." and so on. (Burek is a Balkan meat, cheese or vegetable pie made with flaky filo dough.

One policeman asks the Gypsy man: "What do you mean you don't want to make Burek?

The Gypsy man replies: "I see the way things are going on Kosovo!! I don't want to make Burek!!!"

The two policeman dumbfounded and dealing with a potential disturbance tell the Gypsy man once again: "Nobody is forcing you to make Burek and what the heck does the situation on Kosovo have to do with you and Burek?

The Gypsy man looks at the police:

"Read the paper!! Before (in history) the Serbs used to be politicians in the world, the Gypsy's used to steal and the Albanian's used to make Burek.
Today the Serbs are stealing, the Albanians are the politicians! I DON'T WANT TO MAKE BUREK!!!"

 

MR ANECDOTE

3:11 PM ET

November 26, 2010

Bad children

A dwarf runs Santa Claus office:

“Hi, Santa! I have Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the phone right now. They all want to know what we exactly mean by term “bad children”?”

 

EWD4

4:59 PM ET

December 10, 2010

One of the Americans

One of the Americans declares, "I hereby claim this moon as property of the U.S.A.katalog firm If it were not for our heavy investment in space travel this trip would not have happened!One of the Germans then declares, "Nein! This moon shall belong to Deutschland! It was our scientists and physicists who made this possible!"One of the Serbians then draws a gun from his spacesuit and shoots his fellow Serbian who collapses dead onto the rocky surface.

 

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