From: utzoo!watmath!rtris Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Jones Article-I.D.: watmath.4213 Posted: Mon Jan 10 13:40:08 1983 Received: Mon Jan 10 23:47:58 1983 A Russsian sleeper had been trained. He would be sent to reside in Wales with a complete English identity, untill activated by an obscure code. The name he had been provided with was Jones. Years later the occasion did indeed arise and a operative in Russia was briefed. He was to find Jones in a small Welsh town and say "tonight it will rain in Cardiff". As it ALWAYS rains in Cardiff, noone else perhaps overhearing the conversation would be alerted. So he sets off to Wales and after some traveling finds the town. He stops the first man he encounters on the main street and asks if he can direct him to the residence of Jones. "Well now", the man said, "I'm Jones. But there is also Jones the mailman, Jones the Butcher, Jones the dogcatcher and some others; which one were you looking for?". The operative, quick thinking and undaunted, decides on the trial and error strategy, so he says "Tonight it will rain in Cardiff." The Welshmans face lights up and he exclaims: "Oh, you must want Jones the spy!" Ralph.