03
Nov

The Hot Line – red phone

In the old days, it was simple. Take the Hot Line telephone between us and the USSR for example. All the President had to do was pick it up and say, Sorry, it seems a Dr. Strangelove has just launched 172 ICBMs your way. and everything was fine.

Now though, with the break-up of the Soviet Union, and countries in upheaval and changing names and all, we gotta have umpteen of the damn things.

Cant you just imagine how it might be? Clinton picks up a phone and a recording sez Im sorry, you have just reached a disconnected nation. Please hang up and try another phone.

And then the bean-counters in the GAO step in, all worried about the costs of all these lines and try to insist the President only use them after 9:00 P.M. when the rates are cheaper.

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