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Samizdata quote of the day

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Zarqawi – dead
Rooney – fit
The news does not get any better than that.

– Commenter David Davies (no, presumably not that David Davies)

June 8th, 2006 |

18 comments to Samizdata quote of the day

  • Albion
    June 8, 2006 at 2:46 pm

    Now that is hilarious!

  • RAB
    June 8, 2006 at 4:46 pm

    How about Osama Bin Laden
    caught on his way to the corner shop
    to buy condensed Milk (his fovorite)
    And Brazil in bubonic plague scare.

  • Kim du Toit
    June 8, 2006 at 6:19 pm

    Nope, not even close.

    “AIDS Cure Found In Dolphin Livers.”

    [sub] “PETA, GreenPeace Members Commit Mass Suicide.”

  • mike
    June 8, 2006 at 6:23 pm

    Zarqawi – dead
    Rooney – fit

    Perfect, absolutely perfect.

  • permanent expat
    June 8, 2006 at 8:33 pm

    ‘Brown retires to Scotland in huff & as First Mininter Elect, declines further subsidies from Sassenach taxpayers.’

  • permanent expat
    June 8, 2006 at 8:37 pm

    Normilly I can spel all write…even hard words like mininster.

  • Dean Esmay
    June 8, 2006 at 9:17 pm

    Now if only we can get bin Laden into that headline.

  • Perry de Havilland
    June 8, 2006 at 11:04 pm

    Lemuel, it’s an English thing.

    I suspect more people in Britain know the location of Wayne Rooney’s metatarsal than know where Basra is.

  • lemuel
    June 9, 2006 at 12:04 am

    I knew that, was just trying to tease, sorry.

  • sean
    June 9, 2006 at 1:46 am

    Never heard of the guy. Of course on my side of the pond we don’t follow soccer. I assumed you were talking about Andy Rooney as in “fit to be tied”.

  • Robert
    June 9, 2006 at 2:30 am

    And they say good news doesn’t sell newspapers!

  • Static Brain
    June 9, 2006 at 7:38 am

    Doesn’t much matter that Zarqawi is dead. Bushco’s war machine will march on devouring everything in it’s path in Iraq in the name of profit and greed. It makes me sick to be an American.

  • Steve B
    June 9, 2006 at 10:29 am

    I don’t know about Static Brian, you seem to have more of a Shrivelled Brain!

  • Pete_London
    June 9, 2006 at 11:07 am

    Static Brain –

    Now that Zed’s dead I think people should try to reconcile their differences and come together. A bit of a sing song may help things in that direction so I’ll try to get things going.

    I did consider a bit of Will Smith (Boom! Shake The Room maybe?) or the lovely Lulu (My heart goes Boom bang-a-bang/boom bang-a-bang/When you are near/Boom bang-a-bang, boom bang-a-bang/Loud in my ear Pounding away, pounding away …. )

    But no, we don’t want to appear culturally insensitive now, do we?! In that vein I reckon we should kick off with It’s In The Koran

  • slave
    June 9, 2006 at 3:12 pm

    Static

    Don’t be too despondent even if you are a leftie cliche.
    You’ve qualified for the world cup and will have plenty of opportunity to support the opposing teams. you might be lucky and get france or even better iran in the knockout stages.

  • Uain
    June 10, 2006 at 3:43 am

    I note that so many of the fascist sympathizer, shriveled brain Yanks who are so ashamed to be such….. never seem to leave.

  • permanent expat
    June 11, 2006 at 2:30 am

    The Brain does, in fact, appear to be Static……no movement there at all. Perhaps it’s Dead Brain & likely brain-dead.

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