> Subject: Fw: Note of Congratulations > > > After a President has been in office for 6 months it is customary > for the last President to send a note of congratulations to the new > one. > > So yesterday when the note came from Bush to Obama, the President > was somewhat troubled because it was written in code and all it said > was: > > 370H-SSV-0773H > > This troubled him as he had always heard from his peers how > Former president Bush was perceived to have been scholarly challenged. > > So he took the note to his wife. She was unable to decipher it. > > They called in the VP, and he was unable to > decode the message. > They called in the chief of staff and the head of Secret Service > detail and they were unable to determine the meaning of the note. > > Next he called in the head of the Senate and Speaker of the > House. They both were mystified by the meaning of the coded message. > > Now there was complete panic in the oval office. > > They called all of their contacts in the media and sent copies of > the note to all of them, and not one was able to come up with an > answer > > A special emergency meeting was called by the staff. > > All branches of the military, counter intelligence, CIA, FBI were > called in, and the best minds were unable crack the code. > > After a sleepless night, a now humbled President picked up the > phone and called the former president, and asked him the meaning of > the note. > > > Bush chuckled and replied: 'Dude ............ ..You're holding it > upside down!'