o'duck hunter - A Joke

Thinking about the current Democrat president and his Democrat Senate's inability to pass a viable budget...

Three statisticians were hunting duck.

A duck flew.  The first statistician fired high and missed.

A second duck flew.  The second statistician fired low.  He missed by an equal distance.

When this happened, the third statistician exclaimed, "We got it!"

source: Foundation's Fear (1997), a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford, set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe.  It is the first book of the Second Foundation trilogy, which was written after Asimov's death by three authors, authorized by the Asimov estate.

original version,
quote source: https://plus.google.com/108138837678270193032/posts/Js89iqiqPoa

Hari didn't want the trip to turn into argument. “Statistics require care, Yugo. Remember the classic joke about three statisticians who took up hunting ducks—”
“Which are?”
"A game bird, known on some worlds. The first shot a meter high, the second a meter low. When this happened, the third statistician cried, ‘We got it!’”

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