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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Fri Mar 22, 2013, 09:50 AM Mar 2013

A union member, a tea party activist, and a CEO... [View all]

..are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it.

The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says,

'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.'

I forgot where I heard this but it's one of my favorites.

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A union member, a tea party activist, and a CEO... [View all] SHRED Mar 2013 OP

Heard it before, but it is a great one because it is based in fact. pampango Mar 2013 #1

I might make that bank/Wall Street CEO. You have all kinds of brewens Mar 2013 #2

Actually, CEO pay is so high, you'd need a dozen dozens of cookies Coyotl Mar 2013 #3

Yes - completely true csziggy Mar 2013 #11

Maybe the CEO takes all twelve cookies and tell the Teabagger that ... Walk away Mar 2013 #4

Or the CEO gets 100 michigandem58 Mar 2013 #5

That joke needs an update for today, wherein jtuck004 Mar 2013 #6

A current British version might be... LeftishBrit Mar 2013 #7

The union member brings the cookies he baked to the table. Kablooie Mar 2013 #8

Now THAT's more like it! RoccoR5955 Mar 2013 #9

+1 Zorra Mar 2013 #10

+10 SHRED Mar 2013 #12

+1 uponit7771 Mar 2013 #13

Now you made me want a cookie. Cleita Mar 2013 #14