$ X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.humor.funny: 2368P Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.1B4+SPC1 6/9/92 VAX/VMS V5.5-1; site spcvxb.spc.edu Path: spcvxb!rutgers!news.columbia.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!looking!funny-request  Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny $ Subject: How about "USSR - Classic"?% Message-ID: <S4a6.59d0@looking.on.ca>  From: dakrat@aol.com Date: 19 Nov 92 08:20:03 GMT Keywords: topical, chuckle Approved: funny@clarinet.com	 Lines: 39   M Besides worrying about crises of our own, we in the military have been having K trouble coming to grips with the breakup of the Soviet Union.  Where it was G once easy to refer to the USSR as the bad guys, today we are faced with L figuring out the intentions of over a dozen new republics.  The following isM a list circulated by our Plans and Intelligence Flight that tries to simplify  the situation:  * TOP TEN BEST NEW NAMES FOR THE FORMER USSR  @  10.  BORIS:  Bolshevik Organized Republic of Independent States  @   9.  COMMIES:  Confederation Of Muslim Monarchies & Independent&                        European States  =   8.  RUBLES:  Russian Union of Bolshevik Led European States   .   7.  REDS:  Russo-European Dominion of States  @   6.  CAVIAR:  Confederation of Autonomous Violently Independent$                      Asian Republics  7   5.  ACNE:  Association of Countries with No Economies   B   4.  FEED US:  Farther Eastern European Dominion of United States  @   3.  NIGHTMARE:  National Independent Governments Having TribesC                            of Muslim, Asian, and Russian Extraction   6   2.  SEWAGE:  States of Europe Without A Good Economy  ! And the Number One new name is...   @   1.  NOTHING:  Nucleus Of Totally Helpless Independent National"                        Governments --O Selected by Maddi Hausmann.  MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com. J Attribute the joke's source if at all possible.  A Daemon will auto-reply.  E Remember: Only ONE joke per submission.  Extra jokes may be rejected. 