Braingle: 'Lazy Sam the Journalist Part 4' Brain Teaser

Lazy Sam the Journalist Part 4

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Puzzle ID:	#24943
Fun:	(2.53)
Difficulty:	(2.78)
Category:	Trivia
Submitted By:	triskit
Corrected By:	triskit

Sam, a recently fired journalist, picked up story book writing. Sam tried to write a fictional book about James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Through the magic of time travel, these presidents formed a polo team and played against other presidents.

The book flopped because of one big problem. What was it?

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Comments

horse_luver Jul 28, 2005	Hee Hee, nice. I got it after the hint, didn't know that about those presidents before. (Did know it about Polo, though.)
Desert660 Jul 28, 2005	After I saw the answer I wasnt confsed anymore.Your good.Keep it up Dog!
dolphingurl12 Jul 28, 2005	Who would write a book about presidents playing polo? Lazy Sam I guess. lol Keep'em coming!
lycanthrope Jul 28, 2005	I needed the hint to get the answer. I knew about polo but not about the Presidents. A true teaser should make a person think. Thanks for the lesson!
krabcat Jul 29, 2005	iv herd of polo but iv never eaven seen a picture of it played so it dident make mutch sence to me
lisha_kc Jul 29, 2005	uhh sense it was a fictional book couldn't the author make the presidents all right handed??? Maybe I'm just makin excuses because I didn't get it ...nice job anyway I guess
loveshellylove Jul 30, 2005	That was good! The hint gave away the answer. But i liked it!!!
GarnetLover Aug 02, 2005	interesting
thecowancannons Aug 04, 2005	nice
triskit Aug 04, 2005	thanks
schatzy228 Aug 17, 2005	very well done, except for the hint being the answer, send in more please
smarty_blondy Sep 24, 2005	Awesome job and, would love to see many, many more as well.
brainster Oct 13, 2005	Have learnt something new today... good one, though the hint kinda completely gave it away !
shabz4lyf Oct 27, 2005	Good stuff.
peppamintp Nov 07, 2005	nice one.
paul726 May 29, 2006	Very thoughtful. Nice
tonjawithaj Jun 09, 2006	Interesting! Didn't know that about polo.