It's a well known fact that humor prolongs life. Well... at least Russian humor does it for Russians and English - for the English. Read it and enjoy the secret of English longevity. If you don't even smile while reading, it means that either you don't understand English or you are not an Englishmen.

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Since the "Cold War" was over, a squadron of Russian pilots
were invited to participate in tactical war games at a US Air
Force base. A gala dinner was planned by the Base Commander.

Thinking to relax the guests, he offered a WW II toast to
open the meal. Smiling, he lifted his glass and said, "Eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die." in Russian.

The Russian pilots became very quiet and they hardly ate;
most left quite early. Thinking they didn't care for the food,
the Commander asked a Russian pilot what went wrong.

"Well, comrade commander," he said, "I thought it was going
well until your toast. I don't know what you were meaning to
say, but what came out was 'Feast, drink and make happy, for
tomorrow we will kill you'."

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