Shaggy Dog Story

I was reading an article in the educational supplement of the Slimes Times of India about medical studies in Russia when I remembered something I'd heard at a party a while back.

I was in a group of people talking about studying abroad when the topic turned to doing medicine in Russia. A guy who was not really involved in the conversation looked up from his glass and said, "Russian doctors? They probably tie a bottle of brandy round your neck and send you off running in the snow."

You had to be there, of course.