When asked how he’d grade himself after Waterloo, Napoleon famously said, “A good solid B +” and then promptly got on the bus to Elba.
Right before the end of the Battle at Little Big Horn Custer grabbed a pen and wrote down the grade he thought he deserved. “B+” he proudly proclaimed and then promptly screeched, “Aghghghahayahabhdhdhdfhhhghgghghzklpa that really hurts” upon which he died.
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And of course, when the Boston Red Sox were just one out away from winning the World Series in 1986, some fan shouted out a question asking Bill Buckner how he graded his work thus far. “Good solid B+” he shouted back smiling, already smelling the champagne chilling in the locker room. And he believed it…until right around the time Mookie Wilson came up to bat. To this day, Bill Buckner gets the dry heaves when anyone even mentions champagne.
And just yesterday, President Barack Obama graded his work as President as a B+. Maybe he’s grading on a curve. Or maybe it’s all about those made up jobs created and saved in the 57 states.
But let’s face it, the guy’s been rewarded for his non-accomplishments for years. Maybe if he’d just increased the deficit a wee bit more he could’ve seen fit to give himself that A. Or if he’d been able to do nothing about Afghanistan a month longer. Or if he called more policemen stupid. Or…
December 15, 2009 at 4:37 am
Very funny!
The Hindenburg pilot gave himself a B+ too, if I recall.
December 15, 2009 at 7:52 am
He has to give himself a B+, otherwise it screws with the No Child Left Behind policy…Which I suppose he could always pass that blame onto Bush, but…
December 15, 2009 at 11:46 am
I was watching Oprah's reaction when Obama was speaking. I saw for a moment on her face the look of disbelief; I think she realized Obama was flat out lying to her with a straight face.
Which, in her line of work, really is kind of odd to be surprised by that sort of thing.
December 15, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Give that man an A- as soon as Stalingrad falls!
December 15, 2009 at 12:43 pm
The nearby image of our most exquisite president was snapped while he was inhaling and savoring the sweet smell of his unquestioned success. Look, here, CMR, your tongue in cheek keeps you from tasting the bitter truth: Obama gave himself a B+ out of his own sense of his unparalleled modesty and understatement. He would never give himself an A – that would be unseemly and therefore beneath his superlative seemliness. Yes, the B+ is absurd and 61% of America knows it, but the real problem is that HE thinks it's really an A+.
December 15, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I guess it all depends on what B stands for.
December 15, 2009 at 2:38 pm
As a Mets fan, I give Bill Buckner an A+! đŸ™‚
December 15, 2009 at 3:50 pm
B stands for Bull feathers.
December 15, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Michael Iafrate graded himself an A++ when asked how he saw himself as a Catholic.
Then he went on a diatribe of how patriarchal the grading system was and anti-woman and called it anti-numeric and thus promptly gave himself a metro-sexual-strong 100%.
December 15, 2009 at 8:33 pm
How soon before B.O. seeks medical attention after straining an arm from patting himself on the back?
December 15, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Subvet,
He's in the hospital for a broken arm.
December 16, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Matthew
What did you get in History?
Napoleon left Elba for Waterloo then got on boat and went to St Helena.