Better than average Bush joke

A decent joke has landed in my inbox, a thankfully it's marginally better than the 'insert hated politician's name here' jokes:

President Bush and Don Rumsfeld are sitting in a bar.

A guy walks in and asks the barman, “Isn’t that Bush and Rumsfeld sitting over there?”

The barman says, “Yep, that’s them.”

So the guy walks over and says, “Wow, this is a real honor! What are you guys doing in here?”

Bush says, “We’re planning WW III.”

And the guy says, “Really? What’s going to happen?”

Bush says, “Well, this time we’re going to kill 140 million Muslims and one blonde with big tits.”

The guy exclaimed, “A blonde with big tits? Why kill a blonde with big tits?”

Bush turns to Rumsfeld and says, “See, I told you no one would care about the 140 million Muslims”.


Not bad.

Comments

boy_fromOz said…
would that have worked with a brunette instead of a blonde? I don't think so

on the subject of bigotry, I've had a read through Drew Fraser's latest rant against multicultural Australia - the one that got pulled by Deakin Law Review - and have dissected it over at my blog
29 September 2005 at 14:47
Anonymous said…
*stares*

You know, I do wonder how many comments you'd receive if there were some kind of ban on people promoting their own blogs....

Where's the Latham updates? We stalled somewhere in 1997....

Tk
29 September 2005 at 14:57
Anonymous said…
Of course the joke wouldn't work so well with a brunette. Nor would it work so well if she had small tits. But it's nothing to do with bigoty and plenty to do with a sense of humour.
30 September 2005 at 17:43
Anonymous said…
I think I like the Brazillion joke more than the blonde one! Fishy
30 September 2005 at 23:47
boy_fromOz said…
I didn't mean the joke was bigoted, I meant that it played on (anti-Muslim) bigotry; the blonde angle was incidental.
Racial jokes that are both politically correct and funny are hard to come by.


Q: What do you call a black man in a plane?

A: A pilot, you bloody racist

*boom**ching*
1 October 2005 at 01:16
Anonymous said…
better one:

What is Bush's position on Roe Vs. Wade?

He doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.
1 October 2005 at 03:27
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