No Kerry at St. Pat's Breakfast (alas) but it was still fun

[TayTay]

I think my taller Senator took the weekend off and went skiing in Idaho. (And he deserves it. I mean really, Congress sucks these days. I'd friggin go snowboarding too to get away and get some decent thinking time. I forgive him.)

There were some pretty good jokes and two jokes that went, ah, 'blue.' (Much apologies to the nuns and the priest in attendance afterwards.)

One joke concerned my current State AG Tom Reilly and Gubernatorial Candidate who grew up in real bad circumstances. The Sheriff of Worcester County, a big florid-faced red-head said he was riding in a car with Reilly and asked him about his background. "So, you were real poor Tom, right?" "Yeah, " Reilly replied. "If I wasn't born a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with." --- cut to commercial. (That was really funny. The other blue jokes was some long, stupid joke about a rich guy riding into Louisiana to help with the Hurricane recovery and it wound up talking about golf and tees and what rests on them. Again, quick cut to commercial.)

Kerry Healey, Lt. Gov took her share of cuts for being from rich Pride's Crossing in Beverly, Mass. She repeated the same stupid John Kerry joke she made in Lowell and it still wasn't funny. The only funny Kerry joke was some guy who got up and teased the crowd about inviting him over to the breakfast. "I'm Lithuanian and Austrian, guess that makes me John Kerry Irish." I liked that one.

Best joke of the day:

May walks into a pet store and sees this pet rat for sale and a sign next to it: Rat $12.00, Story that goes with the rat $100. Guy thinks to himself, "I;m not paying $100 for a story about a rat," so he buys the rat and takes off down the street. Pretty soon he notices about 30 rats following him. He rounds a corner and notices hundreds of rats, then thousands, then millions of rats following him. He runs to the ocean and pitches the rat into it and the millions of rats jump in after it and drown.

The man runs back to the pet store and sees the owner there smiling at him. "So," the owner says, " do you want to know the story now that goes with the rat?" "No," says the customer, "I'm looking to see if you got some no-good, bastard, Republicans just like that rat." I loved that one.

Okay, this probably doesn't translate well, but I liked it. There were a lot of duds fired today, but there were some good ones as well. Tons and tons of Mitt jokes and that alone was worth the price of admission.

[karynnj]

1. The rat joke is great

From Dr Ron's post we may know who "that" Republican is - Bush. Hopefully we'll be as successful in throwing him to publical oblivion with his follows behind him.