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Why would you want an arab democracy in Portugal?

--DrWhy

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[OT] Explaining a failed joke; ignore
by BerntB (Deacon) on Aug 17, 2005 at 19:55 UTC
    The Arabs lost control of Portugal quite a few hundreds year ago. :-)

    I'll explain, even tough you probably understood the joke and tried to be funny, too. :-)

    US declared war against Spain using as excuse that a ship exploded in a harbor (in Cuba, I think). Noone still knows why the ship exploded.

    Considering WMDs etc, I joked that a Portugese man-o-war burning a US citizen would result in Portugal being bombed.

    I had the disclaimer, because I consider Chomsky as reliable as Fox News; as much religion as Vi-believers (Emacs lovers are of course just using reason). But this is totally off topic.

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      hmmm... looks like I shoulda put a ;) or a </joke> at the end of my post.

      --DrWhy

      "If God had meant for us to think for ourselves he would have given us brains. Oh, wait..."

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