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The Monday Morning Memo

In last week's rabbit hole I buried a video of Barack Obama shakin' his groove thing. Perhaps you found it.

So this week, in the interest of fairness, I decided to share a memory of a fun Republican:

The Pony Joke.

“Over lunch today I asked Ed Meese about one of Reagan's favorite jokes. 'The pony joke?' Meese replied. 'Sure I remember it. If I heard him tell it once, I heard him tell it a thousand times.'”

“The joke concerns twin boys of five or six. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities – one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist – their parents took them to a psychiatrist.”

“First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. 'What's the matter?' the psychiatrist asked, baffled. 'Don't you want to play with any of the toys?' 'Yes,' the little boy bawled, 'but if I did I'd only break them.'”

“Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. 'What do you think you're doing?' the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. 'With all this manure,' the little boy replied, beaming, 'there must be a pony in here somewhere!'”

– excerpted from How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life by Peter Robinson

 

TRIVIA – Princess Pennie has a sister, Princess Pam, who always looks for the pony and usually finds him. (photo of the sisters below)

You should ask Pennie about her the next time you visit Wizard Academy.

 

  


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“But I say to you who hear, love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.”

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