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.