On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > According to <http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp>, Mussolini > did *not* make the trains run on time. Interesting how those catch > phrases become part of common knowledge, true or not. >
Tsk. You misunderstand the nature of a dictatorship. E.g.: Stalin, Khruschev and Brezhnev were traveling on a train that had stopped. Khruschev got up and went to the front of the train. When he came back he smiled and said, "Will be leaving soon. I have had engine-driver rehabilitated". "I will see to it!" said Stalin leaving the compartment. On his return, he declared, "we go now, I have had engine-driver shot". Still the train didn't move. Finally Brezhnev stood up and pulled down the blinds. "There", he said, "now, train is moving". :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
