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   XPost: can.politics, edm.general, ab.politics   
   From: someone@somewhere.net   
      
   Mr.Smartypants wrote:   
   > Prime Minister Stephen Harper 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 PM 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 and a tractor runs over him and kills   
   > him, that would be a tragedy.   
   >   
   > 'No,' said Harper, '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 Harper. 'That's what we would call great   
   > loss.'   
   >   
   >  The room went silent. No other children volunteered.   
   >   
   > Harper 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. Harper   
   > was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens, that   
   > would be a tragedy.'   
   >   
   >   
   > 'Fantastic!' exclaimed Harper. '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 a fucking   
   > accident either'.   
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   a little old, but when put Harper in the joke, its funny...   
      
   --   
   To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States,   
   Resist much, obey little,   
   Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,   
   Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth,   
   ever after-ward resumes its liberty.   
      
   -Walt Whitman, 1860   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)