[lbo-talk] A Larry Summers Joke

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Mon Jul 29 16:12:01 PDT 2013


On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:17:36 -0700 Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> wrote:


> The hippie smiles and replies, “oh don’t worry Your Eminence, we each
> have a parachute. The smartest man in the world just strapped on my
> backpack and jumped out of the airplane.”

I remember this joke being told with Henry Kissinger in the Larry Summers role. An excruciating stage-Nazi accent was obligatory in the telling.

Popes are addressed as 'Your Holiness', btw. Cardinals get the 'Eminence'.



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