'Would you mind telling me, Doctor,' she asked, 'how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal?'
'Nothing is easier,' he replied. 'You ask a simple question which anyone should answer with no trouble. If the person hesitates, that puts you on the track..'
'What sort of question?' asked Pelosi.
Well, you might ask, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?''
Pelosi thought a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, 'You wouldn't happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don't know much about history.'
An obvious answer came to me right away.
Semper fi!
Zot?
Damn it’s a great story but unfortunately it’s not true:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/captaincook.asp
Snopes says this has been running around the internet since 2001, sometimes using the proverbial ‘Blonde’ instead of Pelosi.
He was stabbed to death..
People who post jokes or sob stories invented by LOLs as news are DAABOR, in my opinion.