There is a lot of media hype caused by the death and presidential funerals of Ronals Reagan. Some interesting facts get mentioned in the media. Like for example, the fact that Reagan’s funerals are the first presidential funerals held in the last 31 years.
White House website has few pages devoted to America’s past presidents. Some interesting read there.
Remeber all those “In Soviet Russia…” jokes? Well, the original author is known and there is a page about him and these jokes in the Encyclopedia. ;)
One less to figure out. Stay tuned for “1..3 Profit!!!” and “insensitive clod”. ;)
Going through the web and reading pages related to my GPS device quest, I came across a couple of interesting and very related projects – orienteering and map reading.
Here are few links for serlf education.
Now I hope you will not get lost. ;)
I’ve been reading lots of other people’s blogs recently. It made me think a lot about this whole subject. Here are the questions I am sleeping on currently:
There are pros and cons to each side. Poll won’t help here, though, so I am not making one…
There is plenty of anti-Bush humour around the web. This time I even happened to find some at our company intranet. There was this joke:
George W. Bush, the American President, meets with the Queen of England, Elizabeth II. He asks her, “Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?”
“Well,” says the Queen, “the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people.”
Bush frowns. “But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?”
The Queen takes a sip of tea. “Oh, that’s easy. You just ask them to answer an intelligence riddle.” The Queen pushes a button on her intercom. “Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?”
Tony Blair walks into the room. “Yes, my Queen?”
The Queen smiles. “Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?”
Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answers,
“That would be me.” “Yes! Very good,” says the Queen.Back at the White House, Bush asks to speak with vice president Dick Cheney. “Dick, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It’s not your brother and it’s not your sister. Who is it?”
“I’m not sure,” says the vice president. “Let me get back to you on that one.”
Dick Cheney goes to his advisors and asks every one, but none can give him an answer. Finally, he ends up in the men’s room and recognizes Colin Powell’s shoes in the next stall. Dick shouts, “Colin! Can you answer this for me?
Your mother and father have a child and it’s not your brother or your sister. Who is it?” Colin Powell yells back, “That’s easy. It’s me!” Dick Cheney smiles. “Thanks!”
Cheney goes back to the Oval Office and to speak with Bush.
“Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It’s Colin Powell.” Bush gets up, stomps over to Dick Cheney , and angrily yells into his
face, “No, you idiot! It’s Tony Blair!”
There were another few. Shorter and less funny, but all is good on this topic, isn’t it? ;)