With the holiday season encroaching onto activities, I’ve been asked if I can make a few other guest posts away from the usual Saturday ramblings. Something might be concocted in due course, but in the interim I read a joke in some of my après-vacances reading. I’m sure some of you have already seen it - but if you haven’t it’s good enough to be inflicted upon a wider audience. Certainly more amusing that some of the Dragon’s cats. ~Asp
Prime Minister Gordon Brown was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked the Prime Minister if he would like to lead the discussion on the word “tragedy”. So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a “tragedy”.
One little boy stood up and offered: “If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a ‘tragedy’”.
” No,” said Mr Brown, “that would be an accident.”
A little girl raised her hand: “If a school bus carrying fifty children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.”
“I’m afraid not,” explained the Prime Minister “That’s what we would call a great loss.”
The room went silent. No other children volunteered.Gordon searched the room.
“Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of tragedy?”
Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand…In a quiet voice he said: “If the aeroplane carrying you and Mrs Brown was struck by a “friendly fire” missile and blown to
smithereens, that would be a tragedy.
“Fantastic!” exclaimed Gordon Brown. “That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”
“Well,” says the boy “It has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and it probably wouldn’t be a f*cking accident”
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