Asdcatta.427 net.jokes utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!sdcarl!sdcattb!sdcatta!wa277 Fri Apr 23 20:58:47 1982 Presidents Buy Socks Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and Jerry Ford were all on vacation together at Rancho del Cielo when they realized they were all out of socks. So they all drove into Santa Barbara and went into the sock department of the Sears store. They told the man behind the counter that they needed socks. "Well, now," he said, "I'll need to know how many pairs you want." Ronald Reagan spoke up first. "Why don't you give me seven pairs of socks? That will give me one pair for each day of the week, and Nancy will only have to wash them once a week." Jimmy Carter was next. "Ah think Ah'll take fahve pair," he said. "Down on the peanut fahm, we genuhlly go beahfoot on the weekends, so fahve pair ought to be plenty." Jerry Ford thought for quite a while. Finally he said, "I'll take twelve pairs." "Twelve pairs of socks!" said the salesman. "Why, Mr. Ford! Here's President Reagan, who's buying seven pairs, and Mr. Carter, who's buying only five pairs; what in the world are you going to do with twelve pairs of socks?" "Well, you know," said Jerry Ford. "That makes one for January, one for February..." ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.