5:26 p.m.

This is a joke I heard from D. which I thought was pretty funny:

George Bush is visiting the Queen at Buckingham palace and asks her: "How do you get people to respect you so?"

The Queen replies: "Why, I surround myself with smart people, Mr. Bush."

As an example, she rings up Tony Blair and asks him: "If your mother has a son and your father has a son and you have no brother, who is the child?"

Tony Blair replies: "Why me, of course."

Bush, deeply impressed, goes back to Washington and asks Dick Cheney: "If your mother has a son and your father has a son and you have no brother, who is the child?"

Dick Cheney replies: "Hmmm...that's a toughie. Give me a minute..." and promptly left the room to think.

Bush then goes to Colin Powell, and asks the same question. Colin Powell answers "It's me, of course."

Dick Cheney runs into the room and shouts "I know! I know! It's Colin Powell."

Bush laughs and shakes his head.

"No, you're both wrong. It's Tony Blair!"


I thought that was pretty funny.

Yours...