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- From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: A statue for Bush
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.152116.24726@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 15:21:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.181736.3711@eng.ufl.edu> <C03q4v.79x@ais.org>
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- >>Dear friend,
- >>
- >>We have the distinguished honor of being a committee to raise
- >>five million dollars for placement of a statue of George Bush in
- >>the Hall of Fame in Washington DC.
- >[...]
- >
- >This from the "I know you are but what am I" school of humor, no
- >doubt. C'mon, isn't it just the slightest bit obvious that the
- >person who wrote this took "Clinton Statue Comittee", replaced
- >"Clinton" with "Bush", "Jesse Jackson" with "Richard Nixon",
- >and "Democrat" with "Republican"?
- >
- >The sorry thing about it is that the "author" forgot to replace
- >"Roosevelt" with "Eisenhower".
- >
- >I hope that this is not a sign that we as a nation are getting so
- >politically numb that we can even tell the difference between
- >Republicans and Democrats anymore. :-(
- >
- "WHAT difference?" ---
- anyone with experience of political systems outside this
- country (US)
-
- --
- "A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@
- I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
- think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
- these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
-