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From: Vic Whitmore <vicwhit@octonline.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:07:09 -0400
Let's keep the thread to Triumph issues and drop the drivel. It seems
that half the messages are a total waste of time.
Just to clutter up the thread even more (Symposium ad nosium), take
this!

> Bill Clinton is visiting a school.  In one class, he asks the students
> if anyone can give him an example of a "TRAGEDY".  One little boy
> stands up and offers. "If my best friend whot lives next door was
> playing in the street when a car came along and killed him, that would
> be a TRAGEDY."
> "No" Clinton says "That would be an ACCIDENT."
> A girl raises her hand "If a school bus carrying 50 children drop off a
> cliff, killing everyone involved....that would be a TRAGEDY"
> "I'm afraid not" explains Clinton.  "That is what we would call a
> GREAT LOSS."  The room is silent; none of the other children
> volunteer.  "What?" asks Clinton.  "Isn't there anyone here who can
> give me an example of TRAGEDY?"  
> Finally a boy in the back of the room puts up his hand and says "If an
> airplane carrying Bill and Hillary Clinton blew up from a bomb, that
> would be a TRAGEDY."
> "Wonderful" exclaims Bill, "and why would that be a TRAGEDY?"
> "Well" says the boy "It would not be an ACCIDENT and it certainly
> would be no GREAT LOSS." 
> 

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