Первое покушение на президента США...

[kris_reid]

...это если кто не знает, 1835 год. Два пистолета дали осечку, президент Джексон отпиздил покушавшегося тростью, а потом его (покушенца, не президента) скрутила набежавшая толпа во главе в Дэви Крокеттом.

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[0mogol0.livejournal.com]

не устаю напоминать классику (1001 политический анекдот)

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229. - Василий Иванович! В Брежнева стрелили!

- попали?

- промазали!

- эх, сабелькой надо было, сабелькой!

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[yest.livejournal.com]

Какие-то неправильные у вас замки… сколько ни наблюдал за стрельбой из кремневых ружей у нас в клубе, столько осечек не помню….

[kris-reid.livejournal.com]

В этом ролике просто работа демонстрируется, без пороха на полке.

[thagastan.livejournal.com]

У Твена тоже покушение на будущего президента описано:

PAH-GO-TO-WAH-WAH-PUKKETEKEEWIS (Mighty-Hunter-with-a-Hog-Eye) TWAIN adorned the middle of the eighteenth century, and aided Gen. Braddock with all his heart to resist the oppressor Washington. It was this ancestor who fired seventeen times at our Washington from behind a tree. So far the beautiful romantic narrative in the moral story-books is correct; but when that narrative goes on to say that at the seventeenth round the awe-stricken savage said solemnly that that man was being reserved by the Great Spirit for some mighty mission, and he dared not lift his sacrilegious rifle against him again, the narrative seriously impairs the integrity of history. What he did say was:

“It ain't no (hic!) no use. 'At man's so drunk he can't stan' still long enough for a man to hit him. I (hic!) I can't 'ford to fool away any more am'nition on him!”

That was why he stopped at the seventeenth round, and it was, a good plain matter-of-fact reason, too, and one that easily commends itself to us by the eloquent, persuasive flavor of probability there is about it.

[haurhot.livejournal.com]

Надо было брать на дело пра-прадедушкины-колесцовые рейтарские...