2.3.07

Humor-Good logics :)

When Tony Blair visited a primary school, a teacher asked the Prime Minister if he would like to lead a class discussion on the theme of "tragedy."The Prime Minister asked the class for an example of a "tragedy."One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend was playing on a farm and a tractor ran over him and killed him, that would be a 'tragedy'"."Not really," said Mr Blair, "that would be an accident."A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus drove over a cliff, killing 50 children, that would be a tragedy.""I'm afraid not," explained the Prime Minister, "though that's what we would call a great loss."The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand. In a hesitant voice he said: "If the airplane carrying you and Mrs Blair was struck by a "friendly fire" missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy.""Fantastic!" exclaimed Tony Blair. "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be tragedy?""Well," says the boy "it has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either!"