A little humour.
Justin Trudeau and Tom Mulcair were invited to speak to a Grade 5 class at a local elementary school.
The illustrious Party Leaders arrived as the class was in the middle of a discussion of words and their meanings.
The teacher asked Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Mulcair to lead the discussion on the word 'tragedy.'
Mr. Trudeau asked, "Class, who can give me an example of a 'tragedy'?"
A little boy stood up and said, "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs him over and kills him, that would be a tragedy."
"No," said Mr. Mulcair, "that would be an accident."
A little girl raised her hand and said, "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove off a cliff, killing everyone, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not," explained Mr. Trudeau. "That's what we would call a great loss.”
The room went silent. No other child volunteered.
Mr. Mulcair asked, "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"
Little Johnny raised his hand. The teacher held her breath.
In a quiet voice Little Johnny said, "If both of you were in a plane that was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic!" exclaimed Mr. Trudeau. "That would be a tragedy."
Mr. Mulcair asked, "Can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
"Well," says Little Johnny, "It has to be a tragedy, because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss, and you can bet your sweet ass it wouldn't be an accident either!"
The teacher left the room.
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The kill is the satisfying, indeed essential, conclusion to a successful hunt. But, I take no pleasure in the act itself. One does not hunt in order to kill, but kills in order to have hunted. Then why do I hunt? I hunt for the same reason my well-fed cat hunts...because I must, because it is in the blood, because I am the decendent of a thousand generations of hunters. I hunt because I am a hunter.- Finn Aagard
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Unlikely either of them would have caught on to what the ever profound Little Johnny had to say!!
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