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En Lin Wei wrote:
> Charles Moyer wrote:
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> >If we Pound them all down we do ourselves a great disservice.
> > That Monty Python "stick" is an old chestnut. The way I heard it many
> >years ago before Monty goes something like this;
> > "The socialist is haranguing the crowd. He bellows, "After the
> >revolution we'll all eat steak and mushrooms".
> > A fellow in the back of the crowd meekly speaks up, "But I don't like
> >mushrooms."
> > The Socialist now worked up to a fever pitch answers, "After the
> >revolution we'll all eat steak and mushrooms, and we'll like steak and
> >mushrooms."
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> I never heard this one, though it would be great critcism of the those who
> follow the Marxist-Leninist vanguard theory of socialism, which I oppose.
As I heard the joke it was somewhat more concise.
"Come the Revolution, we will all have strawberries and cream."
"I don't *like* strawberries and cream."
"Come the Revolution, we will *all* like strawberries and cream."
And for the record, the person who told it to me was a communist, telling the
joke on herself.
Carrol
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