There is this old joke about a Soviet engineer. “I tell my wife I’m with my mistress,” he says. “And I tell my mistress that I’m with my wife. In the meanwhile, I just hide in a corner and work on my engineering designs.”
I’m that Soviet engineer, people. I’m sitting right in the middle of Montreal’s beautiful Old Port, the weather is lovely, there are many cool places to visit, great stores and restaurants to patronize, friends to meet, and relatives to greet.
I, however, am stuck at home with my computer doing my committee work.
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Not cool to lie to your mistress like that, Clarissa.
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I guess the ethical training proved insufficient in my case, eh? 🙂
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I heard this joke as: A mathematician is asked whether it is better to have a wife or a mistress. He says it is better to have both, so that he can tell his mistress he is with his wife, his wife he is with his mistress, and he is free to work on mathematics.
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So it’s not a 100 per cent Soviet joke??? I had no idea!!
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