Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!whuxl!whuxi!ktw From: ktw@whuxi.UUCP (WOLMAN) Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.jokes.d Subject: National Humor, i.e., Nations Watching Nations Message-ID: <186@whuxi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 08:55:49 EST Article-I.D.: whuxi.186 Posted: Wed Dec 12 08:55:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 02:10:37 EST Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.jokes:9887 net.jokes.d:893 My dissertation director in graduate school told me a story he once heard in Italy during WW II. Italians told it among themselves about other national groups. If two Frenchmen are marooned on a desert island with one woman, they will fight a duel to decide who gets her. If two Englishmen are marooned on a desert island with one woman, they will amicably share her between them in the name of "good form." If two Germans are marooned on a desert island with one woman, they will kill her and take each other.