Al gore is a Funny Guy , Not a Stiff-suit ha..ha...ha...
Al Gore cracks up scientists in SF
IN TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, HE POKES FUN AT HIMSELF
By Julie Sevrens LyonsMercury News
Former Vice President Al Gore may have the reputation of a humorless stiff-suit, a formerpolitician now obsessed with saving the planet.
But this afternoon, in a meeting before thousands of the world's top earth scientists in San Francisco, he proved he can tell a joke with the best of them.
Who knew?
While opening up his talk on ``Climate Change: The Role of Science and Media in Policy Making,'' he worked the crowd as handily as David Letterman, leaving most of the audience in stitches -- all without resorting to techie humor.
On the topic of how he's been adjusting to life outside of Washington:
``I flew on Air Force Two for eight years,'' he said, ``and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an airplane.''
When visiting relatives with his wife, ``we had to drive ourselves. I looked in the back mirror and it hit me there was no motorcade back there. This was a rented Ford Taurus.''
Eating one day at a Shoney's restaurant -- think Denny's and you wouldn't be far off -- he overheard a waitress whisper to a customer that, yes, that was Al Gore, the former Vice President, eating at a nearby table. To which the man said, ``He's come down a long way.''
Traveling in the middle of the night, in the middle of the Atlantic, Gore heard someone yelling at him to ``call Washington, call Washington!'' Wondering what in the world could be wrong in Washington at that time of night, he said, he then ``remembered it could be a bunch of things.''
One day, he saw a woman walk by him and do a double-take. He said hello. ``You know,'' she said, ``if you dyed your hair black, you'd look just like Al Gore.''
His No. 1 comment not related to climate change and global warming?
``I'm now a recovering politician,'' he said. ``I'm on about step 9.''
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16241552.htm
IN TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, HE POKES FUN AT HIMSELF
By Julie Sevrens LyonsMercury News
Former Vice President Al Gore may have the reputation of a humorless stiff-suit, a formerpolitician now obsessed with saving the planet.
But this afternoon, in a meeting before thousands of the world's top earth scientists in San Francisco, he proved he can tell a joke with the best of them.
Who knew?
While opening up his talk on ``Climate Change: The Role of Science and Media in Policy Making,'' he worked the crowd as handily as David Letterman, leaving most of the audience in stitches -- all without resorting to techie humor.
On the topic of how he's been adjusting to life outside of Washington:
``I flew on Air Force Two for eight years,'' he said, ``and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an airplane.''
When visiting relatives with his wife, ``we had to drive ourselves. I looked in the back mirror and it hit me there was no motorcade back there. This was a rented Ford Taurus.''
Eating one day at a Shoney's restaurant -- think Denny's and you wouldn't be far off -- he overheard a waitress whisper to a customer that, yes, that was Al Gore, the former Vice President, eating at a nearby table. To which the man said, ``He's come down a long way.''
Traveling in the middle of the night, in the middle of the Atlantic, Gore heard someone yelling at him to ``call Washington, call Washington!'' Wondering what in the world could be wrong in Washington at that time of night, he said, he then ``remembered it could be a bunch of things.''
One day, he saw a woman walk by him and do a double-take. He said hello. ``You know,'' she said, ``if you dyed your hair black, you'd look just like Al Gore.''
His No. 1 comment not related to climate change and global warming?
``I'm now a recovering politician,'' he said. ``I'm on about step 9.''
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16241552.htm
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