Histórias com piada

Duas pequenas histórias da História, não correlacionadas, juntas por coincidência, mas com piada, e com a moral que lhe quiserem dar:

1. "I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls," Putin told Sarkozy, referring to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Mr Sarkozy responded: "Hang him?" "Why not? The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein," said Mr Putin. Mr Sarkozy replied, using the familiar "tu": "Yes but do you want to end up like [President] Bush?" Mr Putin was briefly lost for words, then replied: "Ah, you have scored a point there."

   From Rebecca at FP Passport e lido em Chris Blattman's Blog: Sarkozy stops Putin in his tracks

2. 'There was a little known Russian émigré, Trotsky by name, who during World "War I was in the habit of playing chess in Vienna's Café Central every evening,' Bealer and Weinberg write.... A typical Russian refugee, who talked too much but seemed... a pathetic figure.... One day in 1917 an official of the Austrian Foreign Ministry rushed into the minister's room, panting and excited, and told his chief, 'Your excellency... Your excellency... Revolution has broken out in Russia.' The minister, less excitable and less credulous than his official, rejected such a wild claim and retorted calmly, 'Go away... Russia is not a land where revolutions break out. Besides, who on earth would make a revolution in Russia? Perhaps Herr Trotsky from the Café Central?' The minister should have known better. Give a man enough coffee and he's capable of anything."

   Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong: Mit Schlag: "gladwell dot com - java man.