08-02-2017, 11:02 AM
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Mr T. Blair
Tony Blair was on an official visit to an elementary school one day and was shown in to one of the classrooms.. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings..The teacher asked Mr. Blair if he would like to lead the class for an example of the word "tragedy".. So Mr. Blair then asks the class if anyone can give an example of a tragedy"..
One little boy stands up and says "If my best friend, who lives next door, is playing in the street and a car comes along and runs him over, that would be a tragedy"...
"No", says Mr. Blair, "that would be an ACCIDENT"..
A little girl raises her hand and says "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone involved, that would be a tragedy"..
"I'm afraid not" says Mr. Blair.. "That's what we would call a GREAT LOSS"...
Finally a little voice at the back of the room pipes up and says "If you and Mrs. Blair were on an aeroplane jetting off on one of your many freebie holidays and a terrorist like Osama bin Laden fired a rocket launcher at you and blew you all to smithereens, that would be a tragedy"...
"Fantastic" says Mr. Blair, "that's right".. "Now, can you tell me WHY that would be a TRAGEDY.?"
"Well" says the little voice, it's because it wouldn't be an accident and it certainly wouldn't be no great loss" ....!!!!!!!!!!!.
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