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BigBlue Super Member
Joined: Jan 16, 2006 Posts: 1108 Location: Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:37 pm Post subject: Little Johnny Meets Barack |
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Barack Obama 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 president if he would like to lead
the discussion on the word 'tragedy.' So our illustrious
president 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 and a tractor
runs over him and kills him, that would be a tragedy.'
'No,' said Obama, 'that would be an accident.'
A little girl raised her hand: 'If a school bus carrying 50
children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside,
that would be a tragedy.'
'I'm afraid not,' explained Obama. 'That's what we would
call great loss.'
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Obama
searched the room.
'Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a
tragedy?'
Finally at the back of the room, Little Johnny raised his
hand. In a quiet voice he said: 'If the plane carrying you
and Mrs. Obama was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and
blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy.'
'Fantastic!' exclaimed Obama. 'That's right. And can you
tell me why that would be 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 an accident either.'
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slimjim Super Member
Joined: May 16, 2009 Posts: 8316 Location: Fort Worth TX
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:06 pm Post subject: Re: Little Johnny Meets Barack |
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my parents were at a community function last week where a 85 year old lady got a community service award. When she looked at the award, she saw it was signed by Barack Obama. She exclaimed "It's signed by the President, how am I going to get his signature off my award?" She got a standing ovation.
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BigBlue Super Member
Joined: Jan 16, 2006 Posts: 1108 Location: Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: Little Johnny Meets Barack |
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slimjim wrote: |
my parents were at a community function last week where a 85 year old lady got a community service award. When she looked at the award, she saw it was signed by Barack Obama. She exclaimed "It's signed by the President, how am I going to get his signature off my award?" She got a standing ovation. |
Poor woman couldn't even get an award without finding graffiti on it.
Don
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