This was doing the rounds in an email. I have no idea if it is true or a joke. I’d like to think it’s for real.
When Albert Einstein was on the speaker’s circuit, he usually found himself longing to get back to his laboratory work. One night as they were driving to yet another rubber-chicken dinner, Einstein mentioned to his chauffeur (a man who somewhat resembled Einstein in looks and manner) that he was tired of speechmaking.
“I have an idea, boss,” his chauffeur said. “I’ve heard you give this speech so many times, I bet I could give it for you.”
Einstein laughed and said, “Why not? Let’s do it!”
When they arrived at the dinner, Einstein donned the chauffeur’s cap and jacket and sat in the back of the room. The chauffeur gave a beautiful rendition of Einstein’s speech and even answered a few questions expertly.
Then a supremely pompous professor asked an extremely esoteric question about anti-matter formation, digressing here and there to let everyone in the audience know that he was nobody’s fool. Without missing a beat, the chauffeur fixed the professor with a steely stare and said, “Sir, the answer to that question is so simple that I will let my chauffeur, who is sitting in the back, answer it for me.”
That was really good.
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Let’s just believe that story is true! I just love that. And I really like the photo of Einstein. It’s so much like somebody’s home snapshot! I enjoyed this very much. Debra
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Einstein a go-go?
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Now that takes me back!
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Yes, I have heard this joke from my hubby. Someone send it via email. Whether it’s true or not, we’ll never know. Unless if the chauffeur is still alive…….which I doubt.
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Hilarious! I laughed as soon as I read the last line. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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My pleasure 🙂
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I don’t care if it’s apocryphal, I love to see pomposity pricked.
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Yeaha, very good. It’s gotta be true. I mean, who’d make up such a story…he he lol
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I have a chauffeur just like that! (the husband)
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Ha ha nice one
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brilliant!
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Oh, I hope that’s true!
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Me too!
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What a brilliant story. I do hope its true
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So do I 🙂
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very good..a great answer..but we shall never ever know
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I have my chauffeur answer for me all the time.
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He typed this comment, didn’t he?
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Yes, the kind gentleman that he is.
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I hope you pay him well.
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I really like that story a lot…must try and remember it.
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I hope it is true since it made me laugh out loud.
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Lol, I hope it’s true! I can image the look on that guys face, and the reaction from the crowed, when the “chauffeur” answered his question with out skipping a beat. (and the giggle they had on the way home after the lecture)
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Haha, good one!
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Excellent …. this could be a true story – love it .. that is the way I would have done myself.
It’s delegation for you. EXCELLENT!!!!!
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