> In the US it has been Polish jokes, Jewish jokes, and Texas A
> and M jokes

Not forgetting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff

> > Question:  It's true that Nikolay Nikolaevich (or James Newton)
> > won an electric car just answering to our radio contest ?
> > Answer: It's true, with the correction it wasn't an electric car but
> > an ordinary bicycle, and it wasn't gave him as a prize but stolen
> > from him...

> Mike, being Russian myself, I've heard a bunch of Armenian Radio
> jokes. I just don't get the humor of the electric car one, even after
> I translate it to Russian in my head. Maybe you can explain it to me?

Vitaly, I think the joke is that it starts off "normal" (winning a car) but
then you find that the prize wasn't so grand. And then it wasn't won,
but lost

Kind of like this, from The Simpsons' Monty Burns

"I had a fianc=E9e named Gertrude. But I was such a workaholic, I
not only missed the wedding but our divorce too. She died of
loneliness. Loneliness and rabies"

See ?

"Died of loneliness". Aw, how terribly sad

but then

"Loneliness and rabies". Euuuwww. Not so romantic after all

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