Joke - What is a tragedy?

Tragedy:
While President G.W. Bush was visiting a primary school he visited one of the classes.
They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked the President 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 Bush, 'that would be an accident.'

A little girl raised her hand: 'If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.'

'I'm afraid not,' explained the President. 'That's what we would call a great loss.'

The room went silent. No other children volunteered.

Bush searched the room. 'Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?'

Finally at the back of the room a small boy raised his hand.

In a quiet voice he said: 'If Air Force One carrying you and Mrs Bush was struck by a friendly fire missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy.'

'Fantastic!' exclaimed Bush. 'That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?'

'Well,' said 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 either.'

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Here is my two pennies on this joke -

It's Absolutely true I am afraid.
He was probably the clever English Exchange Student who's tank commander father was shot at by friendly U.S fire in the first gulf war!

Have I told you how much I abhor G.W Bush and what he stands for? Probably, but here is some more if you weren't paying attention.

Now we get a pussy like Obama or a forces nutter like McCain who will carry on imposing the American Foreign Policy on us.
Yep, they do have one, subject to the rest of the worlds belief - to shoot and bomb anyone who doesn't like the USA - so that would be anyone who isn't a middle class American then!

We had better watch out in the UK then, as it's only Tony and Cherie Blair, "Bush's Poodles" that do like them. The trouble is the Blair's aren't quite finished milking the UK for more money before they fuc~ off to U.S shores.

It seems they have 27? houses now and a US led mortgage crisis created by greedy bankers to deal with!

We probably have another years worth of Cherie's mindless 2nd autobiography, and many more of his crappy after dinner speeches at £100,000.00 per speech before they piss off to the Cult of America.

Yep it seems to be a cult.
They seem to brainwash and bamboozle the world.
I am sure if I came out and blatantly set up a cult, it would be illegal. The good ol' U.S. of A have a whole country of idiots, of whom 70% don't have a passport to see the world outside it's own borders, and where 70 % live within 10 miles of where they were born and grew up.

Illegal immigrants from Mexico, and the like, still want to live there - utterly amazing!

Is it right to shop your family for criminal behaviour?

Well yesterday the mother of two sons who badly beat a man in the street, met their victim.
Anyone think this is unusual? Yes it is. The woman met and apologised to him for their behaviour.

This lady is Carol Saldinack, the victim is Marc Parkinson. Mr Parkinson now has a damaged eye and is lucky to be alive.

The thing that makes this unusual it that Mrs Saldinack turned in her two sons to the police for their appalling action. She found out when the boys told their sister ad she found out. The consequences were now she is isolated from her family who cant believe she would do this.
The good thing is the rest of us hard working and law abiding people have stood up in support of her actions.

She has tried to bring her family up the right way, but and unfortunately failed to instill in the rest of them a sense of right and wrong. Good for her for having a moral backbone and the strength of character to do this. I think she is better off with out her family if they deem it fit and proper to stick together with the perpetrators rather than support the victim. This culture we live in today seems only to stick up for them and not victims. This has got to stop.

You wonder why kids carry knives in the street? It's to defend themselves, but once you have knife pulled on you, you have to try to kill the opponent because they will try to kill you.
That's why there are so many stabbings.

Again I harp on about liberalism. It's time we stood up and said stop being liberal!
Crack down on crime and unsocial behaviour with an iron fist. Up the sentencing and bring back
hanging as an ultimate deterrent, and use it for crimes such as murder. The USA had a three strikes and prison for life policy. Perhaps we need something as harsh to bring some law and order to the streets.

No more drinking on the tube. . .

Can someone tell me why there was a massive party on the tube this weekend to celebrate the alcohol ban? The ban is used as an excuse, that's all.

I can think of nothing worse than sitting on the tube with hundreds of revelers binge drinking and creating havoc. Needless to say most tubes I use don't have the toilet facilities to cope.
There is the damage to stations and the tubes, and the excess police presence required to make sure it went off with out trouble - but still the idiot element was out in force.

Now I know there is always a minority who spoil it for the magnitude, but seeing the scenes in the paper this morning, it was totally irresponsible of the London council and the Mayor's office to let this go ahead.

Drinking on the train does lead to intimidation of the many people who just want a quiet journey home. I for one am glad it is now outlawed on the tube.