Newsnight daily "Joke fit for a ten year old"

[tjwmason]

Today retitled "joke (allegedly) Fit For a Ten Year Old"

A father asked his 10-year-old son if he knew about the birds and the
bees.

"I don't want to know!" the child said, bursting into tears. "Promise
me you won't tell me!"

Confused, the father asked what was wrong.

The boy sobbed, "When I was six, I got the 'there's no Santa speech'. At
seven, I got the 'there's no Easter Bunny' speech'. When I was eight,
you hit me with the 'there's no tooth fairy speech'. Now if you're going
to tell me that grown-ups don't really get laid, I'll have nothing left
to live for."

Sent out with details of tonight's Newsnight programme - available on B.B.C.2 at 10:30 p.m. (U.K. time) - or for 24 hours after broadcast at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm