<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440608" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Opening Joke</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I wanted to please everyone...<br>I'd tell them how fantastic and beautiful they are.<br>You know...<br>That stuff folks expect to hear.<br>Especially out in public.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But geeeesssshhh...<br>Glancing at this crowd...<br>I know I have to be honest.<br>Since I expect most of them, <br>Would be hearing it for the first time.<br>And I can see there are lots of folks been lied to...<br>Sittin' up in here! <br>You got another pair of sunshades? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even more would think my honesty, <br>To be controversial, direct and humorless.<br>Delivered from the embittered lips, <br>Of a black man fighting back his anger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How did truth and honesty, <br>Become associated with bitterness in the first place? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They get enough amusement anyway.<br>Some of that stuff that goes on today is so hysterical...<br>It goes on unacknowledged.<br>Don't worry! <br>I've come prepared with an opening joke about economics.<br>That should rivet them to their seats! <br>Especially the ones sitting in the front taking notes...<br>Accustomed to being in seminars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Folks...<br>The topic this evening will be, <br>'How to Barter and Ghettomize My Pretensions'<br>Some of you taking notes, <br>Will find the subject matter rewarding.<br>IF you already know how to boogey and 'git' down! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440608" data-title="Opening Joke de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="If I wanted to please everyone... I'd tell them how fantastic and beautiful they are. You know... That stuff folks expect to hear. Especially out in public. But geeeesssshhh... Glancing at this crowd... I know I have to be honest. Since I expect ..."></div> </div> </div>

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