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Religions > Atheism |
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"Therion Ware" |
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11 Nov 2004 08:01:53 AM |
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OT: Arafat Burial |
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 08:39:55 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
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| User: "Daniel Kolle" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 05:49:00 PM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:55 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> thought hard and said:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
Explain.
P.S. I realize a joke is never funny if you have to explain it.
Still...
--
-Daniel "Mr. Brevity" Kolle; 16 A.A. #2035
Koji Kondo, Yo-Yo Ma, Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Geirr Tveitt are my Gods.
Head of EAC Denial Department and Madly Insane Scientist.
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
12 Nov 2004 04:50:24 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:49:00 -0600 in alt.atheism, Daniel Kolle
(Daniel Kolle <DKolle@hotmail.com>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:55 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> thought hard and said:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
Explain.
P.S. I realize a joke is never funny if you have to explain it.
Still...
Explanation is the only acceptable form of retaliation if someone
doesn't get your joke. Very long and excruciating explanation.
But alas JPG has put up a very erudite "why" earlier in the thread.
The msg ref is:
or click here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=off&as_umsgid=
(watch for line wrap).
--
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
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** atheist poster child #1 ** #442.
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 11:26:19 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:55 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
Therion, after seeing the pun explained elsewhere in the thread, I can
only advise that you don't open *any* unexpected packages you receive
for at least the next month...!
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 11:40:26 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:26:19 GMT in alt.atheism, raven1 (raven1
<quoththeraven@nevermore.com>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:55 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
Therion, after seeing the pun explained elsewhere in the thread, I can
only advise that you don't open *any* unexpected packages you receive
for at least the next month...!
Heh. You haven't found out why I *really* want Platinum electrodes, my
dear.
--
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
See: www.Video2CD.com. 35.00 gets your video on DVD.
Market Your DVD to The World For Almost Nothing: www.instantdvd.tv
** atheist poster child #1 ** #442.
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
14 Nov 2004 04:44:44 PM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:40:26 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
Heh. You haven't found out why I *really* want Platinum electrodes, my
dear.
It just wouldn't do to go about discussing EAC missions on Usenet, now
would it?
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
14 Nov 2004 07:10:10 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:26:19 -0600, raven1 wrote
(in article <9c87p058b76gpeost9bstq2t0ocnkckvi2@4ax.com>):
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:55 +0000, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
Therion, after seeing the pun explained elsewhere in the thread, I can
only advise that you don't open *any* unexpected packages you receive
for at least the next month...!
Two months.
(Marking calendar for 3 months and 1 day from now. ;-)
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³(B)iological evolution is a team sport.³-Louis Friend
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| User: "X" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 10:54:54 AM |
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Therion Ware wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
How 'bout filling us provincial Yanks in on the joke?
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 11:39:22 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:54:54 GMT in alt.atheism, X (X <X@nospam.net>)
said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
Therion Ware wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
How 'bout filling us provincial Yanks in on the joke?
JPG has done this wonderfully. Seem msg
2p37p0t7k2ieugii2087jgupsb69n37n09@4ax.com
for erudite detail!
--
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
See: www.Video2CD.com. 35.00 gets your video on DVD.
Market Your DVD to The World For Almost Nothing: www.instantdvd.tv
** atheist poster child #1 ** #442.
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 11:23:11 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:54:54 GMT, X <X@nospam.net> wrote:
Therion Ware wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:01:53 +0000 in alt.atheism, Therion Ware
(Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com>) said, directing the reply
to alt.atheism
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
How 'bout filling us provincial Yanks in on the joke?
I understand that the epitaph on his tombstone will be:
"Here lies a man with sundry flaws
And numerous sins upon his head
We buried him today, because
As far as we can tell, he's dead"
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| User: "Tero Ruuskanen" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 09:23:11 AM |
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Therion Ware wrote:
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
I'm Finnish and I got it. I laughed too, that was funny!
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 09:36:30 AM |
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"Tero Ruuskanen" <truuskanen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2vheevF2kun8hU1@uni-berlin.de...
Therion Ware wrote:
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
I'm Finnish and I got it. I laughed too, that was funny!
Dang, I have no idea what you're talking about :)
--
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
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| User: "JPG" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
11 Nov 2004 10:27:22 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:36:30 -0500, "Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com>
wrote:
"Tero Ruuskanen" <truuskanen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2vheevF2kun8hU1@uni-berlin.de...
Therion Ware wrote:
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
I'm Finnish and I got it. I laughed too, that was funny!
Dang, I have no idea what you're talking about :)
Paul Gascoigne was a famous football (soccer) player for England. During his
career he played for the following teams: Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur (a
London club also known as Spurs), and Glasgow Rangers (aka Rangers).
His nickname was Gazza - a sort of corruption of his last name which has become
quite common in vernacular youth speech of the UK during the last 10 years or
so.
(Someone called Barry will often be called Bazza, Karen becomes Kazza, Elizabeth
becomes Lizza, and Jessica becomes Jezza - you get the idea)/
The coloured clothing a team wears in order to distinguish them from the
opposing side is known as a "strip" for some unknown reason.
Because Yasser Arafat would be wearing the "strip" of the various teams Gazza
played for, he would in fact be buried in the Gazza Strip.
Very amusing to UK, Finnish and Malaysian people but probably leaving our
American friends wondering how they could have been descended from this crazy
lot of British people. I suppose Monty Python and Red Dwarf gives you an
inkling of our sense of humour.
JPG
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
14 Nov 2004 07:08:50 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:27:22 -0600, JPG wrote
(in article <2p37p0t7k2ieugii2087jgupsb69n37n09@4ax.com>):
snip
Very amusing to UK, Finnish and Malaysian people but probably leaving our
American friends wondering how they could have been descended from this crazy
lot of British people. I suppose Monty Python and Red Dwarf gives you an
inkling of our sense of humour.
I actually understand, and enjoy, Monty Python and Red Dwarf, but the joke
made no sense at all to me. (Or rather it did not until you explained it,)
but that just makes me wonder about that form of Brit humo(u)r. I guess a
person has to actually care about British feetball first. American football
for that matter bores me to tears ever more so than the Brit version.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³Damn! I never expected to see this place be armpit-deep in wombats. Kinda
cute as long as you don't move or breath. ;-)³
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| User: "Ichimusai" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
14 Nov 2004 03:11:55 PM |
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Harry F. Leopold <hleopold@coxyx.net> writes:
[...]
I actually understand, and enjoy, Monty Python and Red Dwarf, but the joke
made no sense at all to me. (Or rather it did not until you explained it,)
but that just makes me wonder about that form of Brit humo(u)r. I guess a
person has to actually care about British feetball first. American football
for that matter bores me to tears ever more so than the Brit version.
I usually love the British sense of humor and enjoy their jokes a lot.
But that one was lost on me completely because I have no clue about
soccer/football what so ever. I was never very interested in athletics
and I find the game boring. I can watch ice-hockey now and then but
most other athletic games is about as interesting to me as watching
paint dry.
300 HP and the smell of petrol is real sports.
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Ichimusai http://ichimusai.org/ AA #769 ICQ: 1645566 Yahoo: Ichimusai
MSN: Ichimusai1972 AOL: Ichimusai1972 IRC: Ichimusai@IRCNet
In the beginning was the word.
And the word was Aardvark.
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
15 Nov 2004 04:55:28 AM |
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:11:55 -0600, Ichimusai wrote
(in article <m3zn1k6spw.fsf@ichimusai.dyndns.org>):
Harry F. Leopold <hleopold@coxyx.net> writes:
[...]
I actually understand, and enjoy, Monty Python and Red Dwarf, but the joke
made no sense at all to me. (Or rather it did not until you explained it,)
but that just makes me wonder about that form of Brit humo(u)r. I guess a
person has to actually care about British feetball first. American football
for that matter bores me to tears ever more so than the Brit version.
I usually love the British sense of humor and enjoy their jokes a lot.
But that one was lost on me completely because I have no clue about
soccer/football what so ever. I was never very interested in athletics
and I find the game boring. I can watch ice-hockey now and then but
most other athletic games is about as interesting to me as watching
paint dry.
300 HP and the smell of petrol is real sports.
Motorcycles, practically any size, small British sports cars (don't ask me
why, I am 6'4" but find that the MG's are exactly the right size for me),
bicycles, archery, pistol shooting. To me those are real sports, and nice
thing about them, I don't have to try and convince 6 to 12 others to join me
in order to enjoy them myself.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³Hey, you are the evolving one not me.³-IKnowHim@leavingsoon.com
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
12 Nov 2004 08:34:59 AM |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:36:30 -0500, "Robibnikoff" <witchypoo@broomstick.com>
wrote:
"Tero Ruuskanen" <truuskanen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2vheevF2kun8hU1@uni-berlin.de...
Therion Ware wrote:
PS. You probably have to be British to understand this. Or, oddly
enough, Malaysian.
I'm Finnish and I got it. I laughed too, that was funny!
Dang, I have no idea what you're talking about :)
Summat to do with football, (soccer), I think.
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| User: "Ph˙ltêr" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
12 Nov 2004 04:30:59 AM |
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Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> astounded us with:
news:j5s6p0l0vhcic65rdmd5g9stbrlbeo6297@4ax.com:
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
<Groan>
--
Ph˙ltêr
AA#1938
Denizen of Darkness #44 & AFJC Antipodean Attaché
http://forums.clickhalah.com/index.php
Remove "s" to respond
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| User: "Damian Brown" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Arafat Burial |
12 Nov 2004 09:58:44 AM |
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Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote in message news:<j5s6p0l0vhcic65rdmd5g9stbrlbeo6297@4ax.com>...
Yasser Arafat is being flown back to Palestine wearing
a Newcastle shirt, Spurs shorts & Rangers socks.
He wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip...
Quite good for an atheist
When I was in Israel, I would get loads of laughs when
I called him "Yasser Arafatget"
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