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Taken verbatim from the daily e-mail sent by Newsnight (B.B.C.2's flagship daily news discussion programme).
Today's Joke Fit For a Ten Year Old really does come from a ten-year-old, a friend of mine called Daniel:
A small aircraft is in trouble over North America.
On board are five people: the pilot, the actor Robert De Niro, President George W Bush, a schoolboy and a very old man.
Unfortunately, there are only four parachutes. The pilot selfishly grabs one and jumps out yelling that the plane is going to crash.
Robert De Niro grabs the second parachute and yells that he has to star in a new movie so he needs to be saved.
George Bush makes his move and leaps from the plane yelling that he has to run the country and save America from terrorists.
The small boy and the old man look at each other. "You take the last parachute, son," the old man says. "You're young. I have lived a long life. Go on, jump."
The schoolboy looks at him. "It's okay, pops," he says, "there's one parachute left for each of us. Looks like President Bush grabbed my schoolbag."
Out of the mouths of babes and...
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