{"id":6521,"date":"2013-11-14T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/11\/14\/the-queens-riddle\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T14:59:12","slug":"the-queens-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/11\/14\/the-queens-riddle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queens Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nPresident Obama is visiting the Queen.<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government?<br \/>\n\tAre there any tips you can give me?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Well,&quot; said the Queen,<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;The most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tObama frowned, and then asked,<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;But how do I know if the people around me are really intelligent?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Queen took a sip of champagne.<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Oh, that&#8217;s easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle, watch&quot;<br \/>\n\tThe Queen pushed a button on her intercom.<br \/>\n\t&quot;Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?&quot;<br \/>\n\tTony Blair walked into the room and said,<br \/>\n\t&quot;Yes, your Majesty?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Queen smiled and said,<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Answer me this please Tony.<br \/>\n\tYour mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tWithout pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;That would be me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Yes! Very good.&quot; said the Queen.<\/p>\n<p>\tObama went back home to ask Joe Biden the same question.<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Joe, answer this for me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Your mother and your father have a child.<br \/>\n\tIt&#8217;s not your brother and it&#8217;s not your sister.<br \/>\n\tWho is it?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;I&#8217;m not sure,&quot; said Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Let me get back to you on that one.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tHe went to his advisors and asked everyone, but none could give him an answer<br \/>\n\tFrustrated, Biden went to work in congressional gym and saw Paul Ryan there.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBiden went up to him and asked, &quot;Hey Paul, see if you can answer this question.&quot;<br \/>\n\t&quot;Shoot Joe.&quot;<br \/>\n\t\u201cYour mother and father have a child and it&#8217;s not your brother or your sister<br \/>\n\tWho is it?&quot;<br \/>\n\tPaul Ryan answered,<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;That&#8217;s easy, it&#8217;s me!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBiden smiled, and said, &quot;Good answer Paul!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tBiden then, went back to speak with President Obama.<br \/>\n\t&quot;Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;It&#8217;s Paul Ryan!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\tObama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into his face,<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;No! You idiot! It&#8217;s Tony Blair!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8230;AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS PRECISELY WHAT&#8217;S GOING ON AT THE WHITE HOUSE<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> ACPA on November 14, 2013, 7:12 pm<\/p>\n<div>I liked it.<\/p>\n<p>\tNoah<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> TommyC on November 15, 2013, 6:17 pm<\/p>\n<div>\ud83d\ude06  \ud83d\ude06<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is visiting the Queen. &quot;Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give me?&quot; &quot;Well,&quot; said the Queen, &quot;The most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people.&quot; Obama&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}