Joanna
ravi wrote:
>At around 15/4/06 3:28 pm, Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
>
>>>If I hear one more drunk Hitchens joke, I don't know what I'm going to
>>>do.
>>>
>>>
>>Christopher Hitchens stumbles into a bar and orders a Johnny Walker
>>Black on the rocks. Bartender says, "Say, we don't get many neocons in
>>here," to which Hitchens replies, "Just keep filling the fucking glass,
>>mate, and keep your Islamofascist bullshit to yourself!"
>>
>>
>>
>
>OK, my turn! My Turn! (to recycle an old one)
>
>Having mastered all else, old Hitch decides to try the around the world
>in a balloon thing. All goes well until Hitch hits the bottle and after
>some sustained imbibing he realizes in a groggy haze that he is a bit
>lost, and situated mere tens of feet above land. Quick witted man that
>he is, he calls out to a geeky fellow on the ground:
>
>"My good man, could you tell me where I am?".
>
>"Sure", replies the geek, "You are in a hot air balloon".
>
>Pissed more than ever, Hitch exclaims with a sneer, "You must be an
>engineer, yes?".
>
>"Why, how did you guess?" comes the response from the geek.
>
>"Well, I asked you a question and you gave me an accurate but utterly
>useless answer", Hitch explains with a smirk.
>
>"Ah, ok", says the geek. "You must be Christopher Hitchens?", he adds.
>
>"Wha??!", Hitch is taken aback. "How in hell did you know?!".
>
>"Well, you are utterly lost and have no clue where you stand any longer,
>you are floating on hot air. But that hasn't knocked you off your
>cockiness one bit".
>
>
> --ravi
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