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Samizdata groaner of the day

Why do communists only drink herbal tea?

Because proper tea is theft.

19 comments to Samizdata groaner of the day

  • jsallison

    Lord forgive him and save all the starving pygmies in New Guinea, amen.

  • Mike Lorrey

    While the libertarian asks, “are you fu’coffee?”

  • Verity

    Excellent! And the comments, too!

  • Nuke Gray

    How many social workers does it take to change a light bulb?
    Only one, but the light-bulb must really, really, want to change!

    How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?
    None- they love keeping us in the dark and feeding us bull-!

  • A dreadful pun, which might have been bearable if Proudhon had been a commuunist.

  • Herbert

    i’m afraid that joke doesn’t really work. It was Proudhon who said property is theft. He also said ‘property is liberty’. Proudhon was an Anarchist; Marx disagreed with him fundamentally and disagreed with him. Nought out of ten.

  • Janine McA

    It wroks fine. Proudhon was nothing but gibberish and you have no concept of humor (and logically this version makes more coherent sense as it really is communism, not genuine (ie libertarian propertarian) anarchism that negates property)

  • How do I get Lapsang Souchong out of a keyboard?

  • Bod

    You don’t.

    If you’re drinking stuff like that, you retreat to your dacha, and leave the cleanup for the baboushka who cleans your office.

  • Kim du Toit

    I am amazed that this was categorized under “Humour” — on the other hand, I don’t see a category called “Emetic”.

  • Kim du Toit

    Oh, and stand by for the greatest joke ever devised:

    Q. How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?

    A. THAT’S NOT FUNNY!!!!

  • Gentoo

    How many Manchester United fans does it take to change a lightbulb?

    only one, but you’ve got to bus him in from SE Asia

  • This is an oldie but goldie :

    How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb?

    None. The lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.

  • Nuke Gray

    How many policemen does it take to change a light bulb?

    Just leave one policeman alone with that light bulb for one hour, and it will have changed its’ mind and ‘voluntarily’ signed the confession!

  • norm

    How many Teamsters does it take to change a lightbulb?

    Seven at Time & a Half! You got a problem with that?

  • How many Christian Scientists does it take to change a light bulb?

    Just one – to sit and pray for the old one to come on again.

  • pst314

    Q. How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?

    A. That’s not funny. But it is actionable.

  • Jobrag

    How many computer programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? They can’t do that, it’s a hardware problem.