So we were sitting around trying to finish the dumb speech thing...

...and somebody said "Come on, people, I need some ideas here" and somebody else said "Well why don't we toss in that old 'national service' gag, it always gets a laugh" and somebody else said "Yeah, and why don't we send out for pizza" so that's what we did.

"How this corps would be designed and established, and how [government] resources would support this effort, would need to be determined," White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore said yesterday. "We are looking forward to working with interested members of Congress on how best to develop this idea."

(Boston Globe)