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Thursday, June 5. 2008

Joke du Jour

Via Theo:

During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director how he determines whether a patient should be institutionalized.

'Well,' said the Director, 'we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub.'

'Oh, I understand,' said the visitor. 'A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup.'

'No.' said the Director, 'A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?'

Posted by Bird Dog at 07:37 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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A riddle using the unmentioned solution as its solution. The one answering the question is pulled out of his normal experience and lulled into one of seemingly restricted options.

How many of us are so lulled by political arguments? How many can spot the deception -- in time?
#1 njartist49 on 2008-06-05 09:46 (Reply)
A classic example is the "hypothetical" argument used by good left-wing commentators: I often heard Ron Kuby use this on WABC in New York. And of course the poor sucker who answered from within the hypothetical world would then be targeted as though he would do same in real world conditions.
#1.1 njartist49 on 2008-06-05 09:52 (Reply)
A Jedi mind trick.
#1.1.1 BD on 2008-06-05 10:14 (Reply)
Donald Luskin, agreeing with your perception @

http://www.poorandstupid.com/2008_06_01_chronArchive.asp#1604683035260916774

(snip)

HE JUST MAKES IT ALL SEEM SO REASONABLE I've been on Kudlow a couple times with Lanny Davis, special counsel to President Clinton in 1996-98, and now a supporter of Hillary Clinton's campaign. I'm always in awe of his power to frame a case in terms that seem unassailably reasonable and just no matter how preposterous, and to present seeming irrefutable factual evidence while subtly failing to mention any contrary evidence. If I were ever in trouble and needed a lawyer to save my butt, I'd call Davis.
#1.1.2 buddy larsen on 2008-06-05 15:02 (Reply)
I fell for it, in my head. In the bath, though, I've always pulled the plug.
#2 Retread on 2008-06-05 11:17 (Reply)
A guy driving a car, has a flat tire and pulls over to the side of the road to fix it.
Across the street is a mental institution.
The driver starts changing his flat tire. He loosens all the lug nuts, accidently he drops them down a sewer.The man yells in anger "now I am f- - - - -d"
Across the street in the mental institution another man in a window has been watching whats been going on.
The man in the window yells to the man with the flat "Why don't you take one lug nut off the remaining good tires and use them on the flat".
"What a great idea"exclaimed the man with the flat.Are you some kind of Doctor or something?
No the man yells back I'm a patient I might be crazy, but I"m not stupid!
#3 jappy on 2008-06-05 16:34 (Reply)

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