Have some classic Russian comedy:

There'd been three changes of chairman in the last two years over at Voroshilov. They locked the first one up for stealing, the second one for seducing minors, and the third one, who'd been sent there to straighten things out and who did straighten things out for a while at the beginning, started drinking and kept on drinking until he drank away everything he owned and all the kolkhoz fund. Finally things got so bad that during a fit of DT's he went and hung himself and left a note with only one word on it, "Ech," followed by three exclamation points. No one had the slightest idea what this "Ech!!!" was supposed to mean.

--The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin