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Thread #53341   Message #820326
Posted By: mack/misophist
06-Nov-02 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: devoutly to be wished
Subject: BS: devoutly to be wished
Sometimes we jest when the truth is too awkward.


> > > One night George Bush was awakened by George
> > > Washington's ghost in the White
> > > House. Bush saw him and asked, "George, what is
> > > the best thing I could do to
> > > help the country?"
> > >
> > > "Set an honest and honorable example, just as I
> > > did," advised The Father of His Country.
> > >
> > > The next night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson
> > > moved through the dark
> > > bedroom. "Tom, what is the best thing I could do
> > > to help the country?" Bush asked.
> > >
> > > "Cut taxes and reduce the size of government,"
> > > advised The Renaissance Man
> > > from Virginia.
> > >
> > > The thought of being honorable and cutting taxes
> > > being unimaginable to him,
> > > he could not sleep and saw another figure moving
> > > in the shadows. It was
> > > Abraham Lincoln's ghost. "Abe, what is the best
> > > thing I could do to help the
> > > country?" Bush asked.
> > >
> > > "Go to the theatre," said The Great Emancipator.


Will some one foreward this to George, please? Maybe he will.

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