The Guardian: In Face of Corporate Corruption, Strange Silence from the Left

[Chris Brooke]

>`The trouble with
>>  the French is they have no word for entrepreneur', says our fearless
>>  leader GW. So there you have it, from the horse's mouth(?).
>
>My god, did he really say that?

He may have done, but if he did he was either repeating an old joke, 
or reinventing an old joke, or being incredibly stupid and not 
realising that what he was repeating was an old joke.

Here's a sighting of it in the UK House of Commons, from early May:
<http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/cm020502/debtext/20502-29.htm> 
[scroll down to 5.58pm]

And this one is the same joke in the Welsh context, but told in 
Scotland in 1999 (before anyone paid any attention to W.):
<http://www.mlove.free-online.co.uk/Wittins_73d.html>

C.
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