An American businessman and his wife were riding from Moscow to Kiev during the holidays. The man looks up to see droplets of water running down the windows of the carriage and remarks to his wife, "Look, the snow is
Melting on the windows because of the heat from inside."
An old gentleman across the way overhears this and starts arguing in broken English, insisting that the precipitation has been liquid all along.
The businessman finally gets fed up and says, "Just who are you, anyway, to be arguing with me about this in the first place?"
The old man gets a twinkle in his eye and says triumphantly, "I am Rudolf Klasivetski from the Russian Academy of Meteorological Sciences."
The businessman's wife puts her hand on his arm and says
consolingly,
"Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear."
