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Serious satire
"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
-Thomas Edison
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Saturday, February 12, 2005
Someone I know told me an anecdote about his friendship with a late Lebanese Prime Minister. They had stopped at a foreign military checkpoint in a remote mountain area and the soldier manning the checkpoint did not even recognize the then Prime Minister of Lebanon, who was in the front passenger seat. So he asked him his name and still didn’t recognize him as the Prime Minister of the country he was occupying. He then asked him what he did for a living!Although still technically Prime Minister he was at that time conducting one of an occasional series of sulks he indulged in for some reason or other during his tenure and was not actually executing his duties as Prime Minister at that particular time, so he wryly replied “I’m unemployed”.
7:40 am
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