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   From: bbbb@bigbirds.biz   
      
   Gene Wirchenko  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:36:27 +0200, Steve Hayes   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >>There was a joke told in the 1970s:   
   >>   
   >>PW Botha goes to someone who can foretell the future and asks:   
   >>   
   >>Will the government of South Africa be black or white in 2020?   
   >>White.   
   >>   
   >>What will the price of butter be?   
   >>Ten roubles.   
   >   
   >     That reminds me of this one:   
   >   
   >     A man was injured in a car crash in 1958 and fell into a coma. He   
   > finally came out of the coma in 1973.  The first thing he asked was   
   > after the health of President Eisenhower.   
   >   
   >     When told that the President was now dead, his reply was, 'Oh no,   
   > that means that idiot Nixon is President'.   
      
   There's a massive crowd of people outside of the White House when Obama   
   takes off in Marine-1 (the Presidential helicopter). Obama says, "I   
   could throw a hundred dollar bill out the door and make one person   
   happy."   
      
   Michele says, "Or, you could throw two fifty dollar bills out the door   
   and make two people happy."   
      
   Biden says, "Or, you could throw one hundred one dollar bills out the   
   door and make a hundred people happy."   
      
   Finally the pilot turns around and says, "Or, you could throw yourself   
   out the door and make them all happy."   
      
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