Sharing - A joke and some fan sketches

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Rated: Worksafe
Contains: America, Canada, Russia

So I found this on Wikipedia today, and just had to share.

An American, a Frenchman and a Russian are alone on an uninhabited island. They catch fish for food and suddenly catch a Golden Fish, who promises to fulfill one wish for each for his own freedom:
The American: "A million dollars and to go back home!"
The Frenchman: "Three beautiful women and to go back home!"
The Russian: "Tsk, and just when we were getting on like a house on fire... Three crates of vodka and the two fellas back!"

• Side Note: This joke is a play on the fact that in Russia it is believed that three is the optimal number of people for drinking. This in turn goes back to when in the Soviet Union a bottle of vodka cost 2 roubles 87 kopecks, 3 R. being a convenient price for three men to buy a bottle and have 13 k. left for a snack, (The classic was a pack of processed cheese Druzhba, with that exact price). Therefore a natural company is 3, each contributing 1 rouble. This procedure was dubbed "share for three(persons)" (Russian: сообразить на троих; soobrazit' na troikh). A good deal of Soviet folklore is based on this interpretation of the "magic of the number 3".

And to save this post from spammage, I thought I'd let you in on where my mind wanders.



Canada says "RAWR!" or possibly "Wheeeeeeeee!"

America is a mutt, and proud of it.

Russia... Poor Russia. :(

Comments

[kohikki.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's a cute joke. :D

And your pictures are adorable too.