Remembering that I endorse neither candidate, I found this joke amusing:
John Kerry visits a primary school classroom. They are in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.Posted by Vengeful Cynic at October 31, 2004 02:57 PM | TrackBackThe teacher asks Mr. Kerry if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy." So the illustrious
Senator asks the class for an example of a tragedy.
One little boy stands up and offers: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs him over and kills him that would be a 'tragedy'." "No," says Kerry, "that would be an
accident".A little girl raises 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," explains Mr. Kerry. "That's what we would call a 'great loss'."
The room goes silent. No other children volunteered. Kerry searches 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 raises his hand. In a quiet voice, he says: "If your campaign plane, carrying you, Mr. Kerry, were struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens that would be a 'tragedy'." "Fantastic!" exclaims Kerry. "That's right. And can you tell
me why that would be a 'tragedy'?""Well," says the boy "because it certainly wouldn't be a 'great loss' and it probably wouldn't be an accident' either."