Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:11:55 +0700 From: "Joesoef A.Ma'moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Demang Chatab Groups <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The brains of nation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Dalam suasana kampanye pemilu di negri kidul, Australi, saya menerima kiriman dari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> joke politik sebagai berikut : John Howard goes to Washington for a meeting with Bill Clinton. After dinner, Bill says to John: "Well John, I don't know what you think of the members of your Cabinet, but mine are all bright and brilliant." "How do you know?" aks John "Oh well, it's simple", says Bill. "They all have to take special tests before they can be a minister. Wait a second". He calls Madeleine Albright over and say to her "Tell me Madeleine, who is the child of your father and your mother who is not your brother and is not your sister?" "Ah, that's simple Mr.President", says Madeleine, "it is me!" Well done Madeleine, say Clinton and John Howard is very impressed. John Howard returns to Canberra and wonders about the intelligence the members of his Cabinet. He calls in Tim Fisher and says: "Tim, tell me, who is the child of your father and your mother who is not your brother and is not your sister?" Tim thinks and thinks and doesn't know the answer. "Can I think about it a bit further John? May I let you know tomorrow?" "Of course," says Howard, "you've got 24 hours." Tim Fisher goes away, thinks as hard as he can, calls in his team but no-one knows the answer. 20 hours later, Tim is very worried - still no asnwer and only 4 hours to go. Eventually Tim Fisher thinks, I'll ask Peter Costello, he's clever, he'll know the answer. He calls Costello. "Peter", he says, "tell me who is the child of your father and of your mother who is not your brother and is not your sister?" "Very simple", says Peter, "it's me" "Of course" says Tim and rings John Howard. "John", says Tim, "I've got the answer: it's Peter Costello". "No you idiot", says Howard, "it's Madeleine Albright!" Berita ini saya teruskan sekedar untuk rileks, dan mungkin untuk mendapat sedikit gambaran mengapa John Howard memilih membiarkan lebih dari 400 pengungsi ditelan samudera Hindia daripada dinaikan ke kapal perang Australia. Wassalam, Joesoef Ma'moen -- --[YONSATU - ITB]---------------------------------------------------------- Online archive : <http://yonsatu.mahawarman.net> Moderators : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribe : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vacation : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?BODY=vacation%20yonsatu> 1 Mail/day : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?BODY=set%20yonsatu%20digest>
