elwestb
Well-known member
> After a President has been in office
> for 6 months it is customary for the last President to send
> a note of congratulations to the new one. So when the note
> came from Bush to Obama, the President was
> somewhat troubled because it was written in code and all it said
> was: 370H-SSV-0773H This troubled him as he had always claimed how
> former president Bush was perceived to have been
> scholarly challenged. It looked a little like a phone
> number so he tried dialing it on his iPhone but that
> didn't work. So he took the note to his wife Michelle. She was
> unable to decipher it. They called in VP Biden, and he was
> unable to decode the message. They called in the chief of
> staff and the head of Secret Service detail and they were
> unable to determine the meaning of the note. Next he called
> in the head of the Senate Reid and Speaker of the House
> Pelosi. They both were mystified by the meaning of the coded
> message. Now there was complete panic in the oval office.
> They called all of their contacts in the media
> and sent copies of the note to all of them, and not
> one was able to come up with an answer. A special emergency
> meeting was called by the staff. All branches of the military,
> counter intelligence, CIA, FBI were called in, and the
> best mind were unable crack the code. After a sleepless
> night, a now humbled President picked up the phone and called
> the former president, and asked him the meaning of the note.
>
> Bush chuckled and replied: 'Dude, You're holding it upside down!'
> for 6 months it is customary for the last President to send
> a note of congratulations to the new one. So when the note
> came from Bush to Obama, the President was
> somewhat troubled because it was written in code and all it said
> was: 370H-SSV-0773H This troubled him as he had always claimed how
> former president Bush was perceived to have been
> scholarly challenged. It looked a little like a phone
> number so he tried dialing it on his iPhone but that
> didn't work. So he took the note to his wife Michelle. She was
> unable to decipher it. They called in VP Biden, and he was
> unable to decode the message. They called in the chief of
> staff and the head of Secret Service detail and they were
> unable to determine the meaning of the note. Next he called
> in the head of the Senate Reid and Speaker of the House
> Pelosi. They both were mystified by the meaning of the coded
> message. Now there was complete panic in the oval office.
> They called all of their contacts in the media
> and sent copies of the note to all of them, and not
> one was able to come up with an answer. A special emergency
> meeting was called by the staff. All branches of the military,
> counter intelligence, CIA, FBI were called in, and the
> best mind were unable crack the code. After a sleepless
> night, a now humbled President picked up the phone and called
> the former president, and asked him the meaning of the note.
>
> Bush chuckled and replied: 'Dude, You're holding it upside down!'
