Ex-Tabula Rasa

jerrybrito:

Newt Gingrich sitting on a rock.

In 1993 Newt Gingrich’s staff decided to play a practical joke on him. Every week they would replace his favourite pair of trousers with an identical pair that was a quarter of an inch shorter in the legs. The difference was small enough that on a weekly basis he didn’t notice the shortening of his pants, but over time it became obviously clear that his trousers were far too small for him, leg-wise.

After six months, Newt became convinced that he was experiencing another growth spurt, and that in time he would become a giant.

This photograph was taken two months after the first trouser replacement. When Newt discovered the truth, eighteen months and nineteen and a half inches later, he fired all of his staff and had their wives killed.