"Particularly if the kid was raised on food stamps, huh?" Rockbottom said
"Food stamps?"
"Yeah, I heard they stunt your growth."
"They do?"
"Sure. Didn't you hear the one the President told on his radio broadcast last week? The one about the welfare queen and the seven dwarfs."
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I said I hadn't, so he went ahead and told me, and it was a good one sure enough. When he wants to be, the President can be funnier than James Watt.
Jerry Doolittle is an Expository Writing instructor and the author of four books, of which three are non-fiction. He was a speechwriter for both President Jimmy Carter and Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale and was a reporter for several daily newspapers.