Friday's Joke

Starting a pretend new tradition and ensuring it will be still born, by retelling one of some vintage and utterly lacking in liberal sensibilities...

A representative of the Chukchi tribe, from the very furthest of the Russian far east, was enrolling in a creative writing course at the Moscow State University. Wanting to ascertain his motivation, the course director asked some fairly standard questions, turning quickly to authors which the man liked or was even influenced by: "have you ever read any Tolstoy?" asked the would-be tutor. "No." replied the Chukchi. "Pushkin? Dickens?"...same response. "What about  Baudelaire"...a blank look.

Seeing he wasn't getting anywhere, the interviewer soon became exasperated, and asked "Why, then, are you enrolling in a creative writing course, if you haven't read any of the classics, in fact don't read in general?"....to which came the immortal reply:

"Chuckhi boodyet peesatyel', nee cheetatyel'..."