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August 02, 2009
Sunday
 
 
Sunday morning joke
Thaddeus Tremayne (London)  Humour

BREAKING NEWS

It has just been reported that the head gardener at The White House has been dismissed after 28 years of loyal service to the many US presidents.

When interviewed the elderly, Caucasian gardener protested his innocence and said:

All I know is I was walking past the Oval Office and I yelled out to my assistants, "Has anyone seen the spade and the hoe?" The next thing I knew I was fired.
Comments

This one must have slipped past you in late January. Thats when I first heard it.


Posted by mikem at August 2, 2009 02:39 PM

Slipped past me too, and it's a good one!


Posted by Alisa at August 2, 2009 03:04 PM

Makes me cringe a bit... but I suppose the gardener could get a new job as a silent horn on one of the security vehicles. People could look at him tied on there and say, "Honky! Honky!" as it drove past...


Posted by Dale Amon at August 2, 2009 05:36 PM

This reminds me of my all time favorite wrong answer on Jeopardy by Mormon conservative Ken Jennings. He shoulda got credit for it.


Posted by Midwesterner at August 2, 2009 09:26 PM

Seriously though, it does bring up the point that, save for the c...r of his s..n, the Big O seems to be as 'w...e' as can be (let's see if I fooled the robot there). I have no idea about Mrs. O, except that the 'hoe' part doesn't seem to fit her, and that at the same time she is not a likable person.

Dale, it shouldn't make you cringe at all: the joke is precisely on those who classify people by groups, and use various code-words to identify them. Just another case of idiots who hijack the language to a point where us regular gardeners can't use it anymore.


Posted by Alisa at August 2, 2009 11:14 PM
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