Brett Coster wrote:
> 
> > "Horn, John" wrote:
> > >
> > > It would be horribly embarrassing to have a President
> > > die after choking on a pretzel!
> >
> 
> Rodent ruminated:
> > Worse than having one almost yak in the lap of a foreign
> > head of state, at a formal dinner where said head is the host?
> >
> > What *is* it with the Bush family and food?  Can't we elect
> > a President who managed to pass Eating 101 on merit?
> 
> I'd just like to know the result of the test for brain damage afterwards
> (anoxia/concussion etc). Or doesn't that apply?

Didn't matter in the case of the last president who periodically blacked
out (and that one did it during meetings!)

> Couldn't quite get over the 5 minute in-depth done last night on the Today
> show about the President's Pretzel, in amongst all their 50th anniversary
> stuff.

I'm surprised we haven't named it; we Americans seem to like naming
things with big fancy titles.

> Then again, here in Oz we lost a Prime Minister when he went swimming one
> day. Naturally there is a Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool in his honour.

*chuckle*  no kidding! 

-j-

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