An Old Man's Joke, While Awaiting the Speech
I don't know who or what alerted me to the story of the 81 year-old Pennsylvania resident's recent visit from the Secret Service. It could've been Yahoo! News, it may have come from a random blog or perhaps it came from one of my lj-friends, I'm not certain and I apologize if I'm supposed to be crediting somebody, but I'm not able to recall.
Anyway, the elderly fellow wrote a letter to his local paper about Saddam's execution and because he said "they hanged the wrong man", without saying whom he meant, the Secret Service showed-up on his door. This reminded me of old episode from the first season of One Day at a Time, so I thought I'd share.
In the television program, Ann Romano had written a letter to the president of the phone company and she ended it with a quote from "For whom the bell tolls". Unfortunately, President Ford was scheduled to visit Indianapolis and his motorcade was to pass by her apartment building and because her letter had somehow gotten misdirected, the Secret Service showed-up and locked the place down until the President was out of the area.
What made me think of this tonight is that I made a snarky "fill-in-the-blank" suggestion on another site; "The State of our Union is..." and I thought better than to say "fine" because we're pretty much united in opposition to the administration, all because of a guy from Bethlehem, who apparently doesn't live under a star.
Anyway, the elderly fellow wrote a letter to his local paper about Saddam's execution and because he said "they hanged the wrong man", without saying whom he meant, the Secret Service showed-up on his door. This reminded me of old episode from the first season of One Day at a Time, so I thought I'd share.
In the television program, Ann Romano had written a letter to the president of the phone company and she ended it with a quote from "For whom the bell tolls". Unfortunately, President Ford was scheduled to visit Indianapolis and his motorcade was to pass by her apartment building and because her letter had somehow gotten misdirected, the Secret Service showed-up and locked the place down until the President was out of the area.
What made me think of this tonight is that I made a snarky "fill-in-the-blank" suggestion on another site; "The State of our Union is..." and I thought better than to say "fine" because we're pretty much united in opposition to the administration, all because of a guy from Bethlehem, who apparently doesn't live under a star.