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Did you hear the one about Dick Cheney?
Vice president's shooting incident sparks jokes, references

NEW YORK (AP) -- When Bill Gates appeared at a computer security conference 
in San Jose, California, this week, he greeted his audience with a quip. 

"I'm really glad to be here," said the Microsoft Corp. chairman. "My other 
invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney."

"The guy he shot ... had a mild heart attack," Jay Leno said Tuesday 
night. "To which Cheney said: 'Oh you big baby, I get those all the time. 
Come on, walk it off!' "

Actor/writer Steve Martin on The Huffington Post, took a satirical tack:

"Vice President Dick Cheney, while hunting wild geese in the Rose Garden, 
accidentally shot President Bush twice, once in the heart and once in the 
head. 'I didn't really shoot the President twice,' said Cheney. 'The second 
time I shot him, I was president.' "

To wit: Stewart's interview with a fake "firearms mishap analyst," who told 
him: "The vice president is standing by his decision to shoot Harry 
Whittington. According to the best intelligence available, there were quail 
hidden in the bush."

Presidential mishaps, though usually less serious than this one, have 
always attracted huge popular attention: Recall, for example, when the 
elder President Bush vomited at a dinner in Japan, or when the current 
President Bush choked on a pretzel, or when President Ford kept tripping, 
giving a huge boost to the career of comic actor Chevy Chase. Or when 
President Carter said he'd been attacked by a rabbit on a fishing trip.

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