Posted on 09/09/2005 8:12:35 AM PDT by ladyjane
What would you do?
This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. Please don't answer it without giving it some serious thought.
The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation, where you will have to make a decision one way or the other.
Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.
Please scroll down SLOWLY and consider each line - this is important for the test to work accurately.
You're in Mississippi...In Biloxi, to be exact. There is great chaos going on around you, caused by the hurricane and severe floods. There are huge masses of water all over you. You are a newspaper photographer and you are in the middle of this great disaster.
The situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot very impressive photos. There are houses and possessions floating all around you, disappearing into the water. Nature is showing all its destructive power and is ripping everything away with it.
Suddenly you see a man in the water, he is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken away by the masses of water and mud. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar.
Suddenly you know who it is - it's George W. Bush!
At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him away, forever.
You have two options - you can save him or you can take the best photo of your life.
So you can save the life of George W. Bush, or you can shoot a Pulitzer Prize winning photo, a unique photo displaying the death of one of the world's most powerful men.
So here's the question (please give an honest answer):
Would you select colour film, or rather go with the classic simplicity of black and white?
No, they are never satisfied. But I suspect neither is Bush. Satisfied people are inactive, content to rest on their laurels. The driven man, as W is, will continue to to struggle for the next level. Such are the individuals who shape history. Satisfaction yields a happy yet ultimately limited life; insatiable ambition results in an wearisome exisitence that is epoch-making.
Not many folks have the vision or will to chose the latter course. Those who do probably wish that they had lived simple and ephermeral lives (think Napoleon's last feverish utterance--would he have chosen love over empire if he could go back? ). That's the nature of the Faustian spirit.
This same joke appeared during the Clinton Administration, and Clinton was drowning. The last line was different, reading, "which shutter speed should you use?" LOL.
Now that you mention shutter speed I think I remember that email.
Drowning jokes - even if they are about Helen Thomas - are just not funny right now.
typical email joke with a "insert place here" "insert person here"
i've seen sililar with both clintons, both bushes, rove, gingrich, dole, etc..
i think the original was..
ok, you're a massachusets sen, and the car you were driving just went off a pier with a young girl in it. you watch as the car fills with water and she begins to drown, you could be out there saving her or you could sit on the beach, making up an alibi and getting even more drunk.
the question is..
what kind of scotch should you drink?
this joke brought to you by the same classy people that stole the linens off airforce one and ripped all the w's off the computer keyboards.
Hate my dear. The hating Dums in D.C are circling around the devastation in LA,MS,ALA, like a buch of nasty vultures. The HATE that emits from them is worse then the smell of the water in N.O.
I think this went around with Hillary as the subject a few years ago.
No kidding
Those dirty rat Dems. They stole our joke. We passed this around months ago. The person we were asked to save was Hillery. What's wrong with these people is they have no original ideas. Have to steal. LOL
What's wrong with them is what will keep the Democrats a marginalized party in the 40% for the foreseeable future.
The Dems can't afford to jettison the DU, LoseOn.org crowd and they can't afford to not have them.
Saw the similar type one with Hillary Clinton the subject...something like saving her cfrom a same type
of disaster..old..just forget it..Get on their case
when it counts..not this crap. Jake
Of course we were right.
:O)
Why do you think this place has Mods now?
whoever sent it is from the UK, they spelled color, colour.
They are not even American, they used Canadian/British spelling of color.
I have not, though anyone who knows me well enough to mail me something would not send me such a thing. If they did, they would expect to be blacklisted here, as well as having "mail server problems" for a while.....For as long as I stayed mad.
There was one, once that made me have to laugh, though. My friends know I have four cats. Someone sent me a URL through an anonymizer..it was a link to the song "Cat in the Kettle", a spoof on Chinese restaurants.
"WHO is hosting this #&^*)*() THING??" as I tracerouted.
It was a Pigeon Fanciers' Site on the UK.
OK, that one was funny.
I guess it just depends on who bears the brunt of the joke.
Hey, it's just an old joke. A pretty funny one too, depending on whose name you insert in it. Remember, America is, or used to be, famous for its sense of humor and its ability to laugh at herself. Look at all the humor that came out of WWII.
Okay, okay. I guess I am in a state of fatigue and a bit sensitive.
The person who sent this to me just became a citizen in this country less than a year ago. It surprised me to see that a new citizen would have such hatred for the President.
Yes, but everyone knows that just proves Bush can't swim. [/sarcasm]
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