Funny Stuff From Dave Barry

"The idea of a Mars mission was proposed a while back by President George W. Bush. What happened was, one evening he and his staff were sitting around the Oval Office, trying to think of something for the nation to do, and they got to looking out the window at the vastness of the night sky and the president suddenly said: 'Hey, we should go to .... to ... whaddyacallit!' The president was actually thinking of a Chinese restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue, but before he could clarify this, his staff had worked out this whole big Mars mission. So he figured, what the hey."