Friday, February 13, 2009

GEORGE W. BUSH IS COMING TO TOWN: AS PHINEAS BARNUM USED TO SAY - "THERE'S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE"


BUSH


BARNUM


I received the following chummy invitation to a forthcoming event to be held on St. Patrick's Day. Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend due to previous commitments at the bar at the Shamrock Hotel. However, some of my loyal and faithful readers may wish to attend. Ticket Details are below:

Here’s the invite as per my call..
j.

Subject: March 17th

Good afternoon - please find attached and below, information regarding the private, invite only, George W. Bush luncheon. Table of 10 is $4000 with an opportunity to also purchase up to 2 VIP passes to a 100 person private reception hosted by the former President. Individual tickets are $400 each.

A Conversation with President George W. Bush
Calgary - Tuesday March 17th 2009 – TELUS Convention Centre
Lunch 12:00pm to 12:45pm
Speech – 12:45pm to 1:15pm
Q&A Session – 1:15pm to 2:00pm

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Jozefina Grabic
Senior Events Coordinator ? Calgary Chamber of Commerce

P: 403-750-0422 ? F: 403-266-3413
100 6th Avenue S.W. ? Calgary, AB ? T2P 0P5
www.calgarychamber.com
www.calgarychamber.wordpress.com


5 comments:

Tiny Perfect Blog said...

I got a few old shoes, might be worth the $400. :)

Darryl Raymaker said...

Good idea!

featheredfish said...

Hahaha: Tickets to see Rove last year were $500/person.

Darryl Raymaker said...

That's right. As Milton Friedman might say, it is the genius of a market economy in action.

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