The Contentious Centrist

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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Sighted on the Internet:

"When you write a poem about any human activity, you are competing with the experience itself. "


... as Stephen Leacock once said, when you've got your PhD, it means you are all full up, and thereafter no knew knowledge can ever be imparted to you. In the case of these disciples of Edward Said... they're all full up, with no knowledge ever having been imparted to them.

"What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark (in the sea) to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs time to confirm," South Sinai Governor Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha was quoted as saying by state news site egynews.net.
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"PA Minister made the following remarks on PA TV:

they created a lag and our [Palestinian] prisoners were endangered. Had there not been Israeli criminals or Jewish prisoners in this particular prison, it would have been even slower…"




posted by The Contentious Centrist @ Wednesday, December 08, 2010   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 11:02 PM EST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fingers crossed that killer shark is not circumcised :) (even the BBC made fun of the Egyptian claim)

[if only] "And is this all?" cried Elizabeth. "I expected at least that the pigs were got into the garden, and here is nothing but Lady Catherine and her daughter..." (Ch. 28)

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