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ORIGINAL: Chojin oldish joke, replace with politician of your choice Prime Minister Tony Blair was visiting a primary school and he visited One of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the Prime Minister if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy". So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a "tragedy". One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field & a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a "tragedy." No," said Blair, "that would be an accident." A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying fifty children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy." "I'm afraid not," explained the Prime Minister "that! 's what we would call great loss." The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Tony searched the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?" Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand... In a quiet voice he said: "If the Air Force were carrying you and Mrs Blair and was struck by a "friendly fire" missile & blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy." "Fantastic!" exclaimed Blair. "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?" "Well," says the boy "it has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be a ****ing accident either!"
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig. There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those who have a rope around their neck and those who have the job of cutting.
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