tax-day comic relief

This is apparently an old one, but it was new to me:

When Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning, he told Bush that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq. To everyone's amazement, all of the color ran from Bush's face. Then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost whimpering. Finally, he composed himself and asked, "Just exactly how many is a brazillion?"


(I'm really not that surprised he wouldn't know the answer. It's, like, a thousand medallions, right?)