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A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced the altitude
and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted. “Excuse
me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago,
but I don’t know where I am.”
The woman replied, “You are in a hot air balloon approximately 30 feet
above the ground. You are between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and
between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude.”
“You must be a Republican,” said the balloonist.
“I am,” said the woman. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answered the balloonist, “Everything you told me is technically
correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the
fact is I am still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help so far.”
The woman below responded. “You must be a Democrat.”
“I am,” replied the balloonist, “but how did you know?”
“Well,” said the woman, “You don’t know where you are or where you are
going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot
air. You made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you
expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in exactly the same
position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it’s my fault.”
September 17th, 2003 at 2:25 pm
Please tell me this isn’t new to you. This joke has been going around for years, like this, or with “Democrat” and “Republican” swapped, or with an IT worker and a middle manager, and on and on and on. It’s a classic “fill in the blank with my group of hatred” joke.
By the way, if you’ve been paying attention, a great deal of what Republican leadership has been telling us over the past two years is not technically correct or otherwise correct. 😉
September 17th, 2003 at 4:33 pm
You tell ’em tgirsch! We DEMAND fresh humour! How about the Wesly Clark drinking game?
September 17th, 2003 at 7:41 pm
hate to say it, but it was new to me.
heh…pretty damn funny nonetheless.
September 17th, 2003 at 10:49 pm
And then the Libertarian stepped out on his front porch, yelled, “Get the hell out of my airspace!!” and blew the guy away with a shotgun.
September 18th, 2003 at 9:10 am
Now barry, you know us libertarians don’t think anyone owns airspace. Oh wait, you used a capital L.