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Editor's note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today's offering:
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(Editor's note: Ed Meese was asked about one of Ronald 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!"