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Re: Afghanistan makes direct threat to Australia
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lugnet.loc.au
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Wed, 24 Oct 2001 05:40:48 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford writes:
> > Kabul, Afghanistan---October 23, 2001.
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> > A shocking development took place today as the ruling members
> > of the Taliban held a press conference threatening Australia if
> > its territory is invaded. Immigration Czar Mohammed Ali Momaluke
> > stated that the Afghan authorities "would not hesitate for a moment"
> > to cut off Australia's supply of cab drivers.
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> Unintended irony alert! Unintended irony alert!
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> The humor value of the Afghans referring to *any* office as a
> "Czar" is really, really high. :D (Mamluke/Momaluke is also an
> Egyptian term, which refers to a slave class that seized power
> in Egypt and ruled it for the Ottoman Empire--and the Mamlukes
> were, in fact, slaughtered around 1805 or so by the separatist
> Ottoman governor, whose name was...Mohammed Ali. Interesting if
> unintended commentary on Afghanistan's ruling classes and the
> way they eat themselves.)
Mmmmmmm. Yummy.
> Over here in the YooEss, the joke is that they're going to
> cut off our supply of convenience store clerks. The cab
> drivers are generally African, West Indian, or Russian much
> more often than they're Muslim.
Bet their knowledge of local streets & language is somewhat similar though...
> By the way, has PM Howard sent off those SAS fellows yet?
> Terribly nice of Australia to send them over--how often do
> they get to go out for combat missions (I don't consider the
> East Timor thing "combat," really)?
Yep, said goodbye to them yesterday, along with all the other political
buffoons that are trying to impress us with their election campaigning. 8?(
ROSCO
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| (...) Which "their", the store clerks or Africans/Jamaicans/Russians? (...) You got to say "goodbye" to your political buffoons? You lucky sonuvaguns! How did you manage that feat? And where did you send them? (Please, not here--we're already way (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Unintended irony alert! Unintended irony alert! The humor value of the Afghans referring to *any* office as a "Czar" is really, really high. :D (Mamluke/Momaluke is also an Egyptian term, which refers to a slave class that seized power in (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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