Ronald Reagan used to tell a story about two brothers, one who was hopelessly pessimistic, the other persistently optimistic. Because they were at extreme ends, the father locked each into a room by himself. The pessimistic boy was locked in a room filled with every toy imaginable, and the optimistic boy was locked in a room filled with horse sh!t. The father decided that this might bring the pessimistic boy up a few pegs, and the optimistic boy down a few.
The next day, he checked on his two sons. In the room full of toys, the father found his pessimistic son crying. When he asked what was wrong, the boy said he was afraid to play with his toys because he might break them. When he checked in on the optimist, he found the boy gleefully digging through the piles of sh!t, as if it were Christmas morning.
“WHAT are you doing?” the father asked with horror.
The son looked at him full of joy and said, “With all this horsesh!t in here, there’s GOT to be a pony in here somewhere!”
I remember that one now that you mention it. Thanks for that. :)
This is turning out to be a really funny thread.
A liberal and a conservative were walking down a dusty road, when they came upon a little boy playing by the side of the road. Upon closer inspection, the little boy appeared to be making a figurine out of dog poop. The liberal wandered over to investigate.
After exchanging a few words with the lad, the liberal started shaking his head and laughing uncontrollably. He went back over to the conservative, who was standing nearby, and said, “C’mere! You gotta see this!”.
So the pair went back to the little boy, industriously molding his little poop-figure. The liberal says to the conservative, “Ask him what he’s making.”.
“OK... what ARE you making, young man?”
“A conservative”, replies the lad.
The liberal resumes laughing until the conservative asks, with more than a hint of frustration in his voice, “Why a conservative”?
Without even looking up, the lad says, “...because I don’t have enough POOP here to make a liberal!”