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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. gabriel wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. > > Comment > > 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