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![]() A young boy from Park Ridge goes off to college. Half
way through the semester, he has foolishly squandered all his money. He calls home. "Dad," he says, "You won't believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here that will teach our dog Rover how to talk!" "That's amazing," his Dad says. "How do I get Rover in that program?" "Just send him down here with $1,000" the young man says. "I'll get him in the course." So, his father sends the dog and $1,000. About two-thirds of the way through the semester, the money again runs out. The boy calls home. "So how's Rover doing son?" his father asks. Awesome, Dad, he's talking up a storm," he says, "but you just won't believe this -they've had such good results they have started to teach the animals how to read!" "Read!?" says his father, "No kidding! How do we get Rover in that program?" "Just send $2,500, I'll get him in the class." The money promptly arrives. But our hero has a problem. At the end of the year, his father will find out the dog can neither talk, nor read. So he shoots the dog. When he arrives home at the end of the year, his father is all excited. "Where's Rover? I just can't wait to see him read something and talk! "Dad," the boy says, "I have some grim news. Yesterday morning, just before we left to drive home, Rover was in the living room, kicked back in the recliner, reading the Wall Street Journal, like he usually does. Then he turned to me and asked, "So, is your daddy still messing' around with that little redhead who lives in town?" The father exclaimed, "I hope you shot that son '*@#$' before he talks to your Mother!" "I sure did, Dad!" "That's my boy!" The kid went on to be a lawyer, and eventually the Governor of Illinois.
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“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson |