An amusing joke
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thebitterguyBack in the '60s when Nikita Krushchev was doing his tour of the US, Kennedy took him to a classy bordello. Nikita had a great old time- he declared, " When I get back to Moscow I will set up a brothel just as good as this for our heroic workers!"
A month later he called up Kennedy with a problem: he'd set up his brothel, but there were no customers.
"Did you put in the velvet drapes?" asked Kennedy.
"Da, of course," replies Krushchev.
"And the vibrating beds?"
"Yes..."
"And the women, you have only the finest women in your brothel?"
"Of course, we chose only the very best! Every one of them has been a member of the Party for more than fifty years!"
A month later he called up Kennedy with a problem: he'd set up his brothel, but there were no customers.
"Did you put in the velvet drapes?" asked Kennedy.
"Da, of course," replies Krushchev.
"And the vibrating beds?"
"Yes..."
"And the women, you have only the finest women in your brothel?"
"Of course, we chose only the very best! Every one of them has been a member of the Party for more than fifty years!"
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Date: 2008-05-23 11:17 pm (UTC)Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, and Nikita Khrushchev
Date: 2008-05-24 02:06 am (UTC)Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev only visited Los Angeles for a single day during his eleven day stay in the United States in 1959. The official plans were for the Soviet Premier to visit housing projects in Los Angeles. On September 19, 1959, Khrushchev and his family were at a special luncheon with a host of celebrities at Twentieth-Century Fox studios before his housing tour.
Supposedly Hope was seated near to Mrs. Khrushchev and told her something along the lines of "You should really try to go to Disneyland. It's wonderful." Then, according to Hope, she passed a note to her husband telling him that they should all go to Disneyland. Khrushchev asked the Secret Service about visiting Disneyland and was told for security reasons it was too dangerous to arrange.
That response prompted Khrushchev's famous rant which received world-wide publicity: "Just now I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not? What is it? Do you have rocket-launching pads there?' I do not know ... What is it? Is there an epidemic of cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken over the place that can destroy me? For me the situation is inconceivable. I cannot find words to explain this to my people."
Hollywood columnist James Bacon remembered, "Mrs. Khrushchev was lamenting to Frank [Sinatra] that their trip to Disneyland and been nixed because of security reasons. 'It's the only place I really wanted to see here,' she told Sinatra in accented but good English. Frank told her: 'Why Disneyland is the safest place in the world. I'll take you there myself if you want to go.' David Niven who was sitting nearby chimed in and said the same thing." (Actually, one report from that luncheon recalls Sinatra leaning over to Niven and saying, "Tell the old broad that you and I will take her there this afternoon if she wants to go that badly.")