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I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not in
Taffy came to my house and stole a rolling pin.
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was in bed
I took a big stone and broke Taffy's head.

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> Observer | I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr BushI thought I'd
> share this article with you I found it rather worthwile Cheers Gabe.
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> I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush
> Terry Jones
> Sunday January 26, 2003
> The Observer
> I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's
> running out of patience. And so am I!
> For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a
> couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health
> food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is
> planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover
> what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but
> he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.
> As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good
> sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the
> street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by
> one.
> Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the police?
> But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need evidence of
> a crime with which to charge my neighbours.
> They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights and
> wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will be
> finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel will be
> secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the street with a
> decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the
> peace. But until recently that's been a little difficult. Now, however,
> George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of
> patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want!
> And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is
> the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one
> certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US
> or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us.
> That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and
> children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in
> peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.
> Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is that
> Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass destruction -
> even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much justification
> for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq.
> Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by eliminating
> 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how
> can you ever know when you've achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's
> wiped out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a
> terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror. What
> about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want to eliminate,
> since most of the known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already
> eliminated themselves.
> Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future
> terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every
> Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert
> to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr
> Bush to eliminate all Muslims?
> It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip of the
> iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like and
> who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe
> until I've wiped them all out.
> My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using the
> same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her up.
> Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough reason
> for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole
> street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and hand over all
> aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar
> terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over nicely and say
> 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come.
> It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast to
> what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street.
> Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003

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