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Puzzle - WSJ 20200418

https://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/2020/04/17/balance-saturday-cryptic-puzzle-april-18/

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Thanks syzygy, straightforward but enjoyable as ever.

Thanks, syzzie. A quickie but a pleasure.

Needless to say, have not done much of it yet.

I take it, Mr A, that you head the joke about George W. asking for a quickie in a restaurant?

I don't think I've heard it, rosalind.

I think she went to bed. So you don't remain in suspense ...


Taking a break from their first day of work, the President George W. Bush and the Vice-President Dick Cheney go out to a restaurant near the White House. The waitress comes over and asks them what they would like.

Dick orders the "Heart-Healthy" salad. The waitress turns to Dubya and asks him, "What would you like, Mr. President?"

George W. Bush replied: "I'd like a quickie."

The waitress is shocked and astonished. In a huff, she exclaims, "I thought you were going to bring a new era of moral rectitude to the White House! Now I see that you, like all politicians, were lying! I'm sorry I ever voted for you!" and storms off.

Bush sits there, stunned for a moment. Then Cheney leans over and says, "George, I think it's pronounced QUICHE."

Aaaah. Poor Mr. Bush. He didn't have the advantage of a sycophantic press like Mr. Obama. I remember hearing the latter repeatedly pronounce corps as corpse in one of his speeches. Not a touch of ridicule; in fact the official pronunciation is probably Marine Corpse now.

Ah syzzie, you tell them so much better than I do (forgot the details) !