The stagecoach Let me translate another surrealistic Russian joke. A man is with a mistress. She says, ""Let's do the stagecoach."" ""What's that?"" ""What? You don't know, what's a stagecoach? What are you doing with a mistress? Go ask your wife, maybe she'll tell you."" The man goes to his wife. ""Honey, what's a stagecoach?"" ""What? You don't know, what's a stagecoach? How could I have married you? Go ask your grandmother, maybe she'll tell you."" The man goes to his grandmother. ""Grandma, what's a stagecoach?"" The grandmother says, ""Ah, stagecoach, stagecoach..."" and dies. I have a personal sequel for this joke. In 1995 I was a newly hired developer working at Microsoft Office. I subscribed to the mailing list ""Humor at Microsoft"", translated and sent this joke there. The word ""stagecoach"" did not seem exotic enough for me at the time, so I substituted ""aardvark"". Somebody replied to the list asking, ""What is an aardvark?"" Somebody else replied, ""What? You don't know, what's an aardvark? Go ask your manager, maybe he'll tell you.""