Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!rh From: rh@loral.UUCP (Randy Houk) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Freedom Message-ID: <723@loral.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 18:54:07 EST Article-I.D.: loral.723 Posted: Wed Jan 2 18:54:07 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:28:15 EST Distribution: na Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego Lines: 15 A fellow in East Berlin wanted very much to join his family in the west. He found himself a nice, straight pole about ten feet long and sanded it down as well as he could. After dark one stormy night he located a section of wall which wasn't quarded very carefully, and ran towards it as fast as he could. Just as he reached the wall he placed the pole into the earth and pulled himself up, up and over the giant obstacle. After landing and kissing the ground he had so longed for, he rushed over to a bystander who had witnessed the feat. The fellow looked in amazement at the new citizen and asked him, "Are you a pole vaulter?" The jumper replied, "No, I'm Norvegian. But how did you know zat my name iss Valter?"