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"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
-Thomas Edison
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Monday, February 13, 2006
US VICE PRESIDENT ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS FRIEND IN HUNTING ACCIDENT. -is that a Dick in your pocket of are you just going to shoot me? I can’t decide whether this story sounds like a) a cartoon plot (a la Elmer Fudd) b) a redneck mishap or c) an old fashioned dual (a la Vice President Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804) so I’m kindly providing all three scenarios that sprang to my mind when I watched the White House spokesman’s press conference live on CNN. I wondered how the spokesman or the press could keep a straight face while discussing all the nitpicking minutiae of the episode. Either way, it’s not everyday that somebody gets shot by the Vice President of the United States of America and politicians everywhere must be secretly glad at not being at the receiving end for a change.
8:00 pm
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