title: Kindziulis
text: # Kindziulis
  
  Kindziulis is a fictional character from Lithuanian joke cycle commonly known as "Here came Kindzulis" (Lithuanian: Čia priėjo Kindziulis). The punch lines of the jokes of this cycle start with the standard phrase "Here comes Kinzsiulis and says:..." The Kindziulis character was created by theatre director Vytautas Mikalauskas [lt] and these jokes, written by collective efforts, were regularly printed in the Lithuanian satirical magazine Šluota.
  
  During the Communist times many of them were an element of Communist propaganda:
  
      A tourist asks, why the Bundestag building is round?
      Here comes Kindziulis and says: Where have you seen a circus of a different shape?
  
  Kindziulis jokes have become less popular in post-Soviet times.
  
  Sample jokes from the Union of Lithuanian Journalists website:
  
      Two citizens are talking: As the building materials became more expensive, it is simply impossible to build a house or an apartment!
      Here comes Kindziulis and advises: Build yurts.
      A company boss says to an applicant:
      - I hire only people with exemplary behavior.
      Here comes Kindziulis and says:
      - Well, he was just released from prison ahead of time for the exemplary behavior.
  
  Journalist and writer Juozas Bulota [lt], a long-time editor-in-chief of Šluota, published the collections of jokes titled Čia priėjo Kindziulis several times (1970, 1972, 1982).
  
  