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Any photo'/footage I've seen of Afghanistan has been notable for its absence of trees... anywhere. The one photograph of a tree I have seen was on the front page of our local newspaper today. It was next to a building hit by a cruise missile the previous night. Obviously the target was the only tree
in Afghanistan, because the US surely didn't target UN landmine clearance staff deliberately.
This leads me to the reason for this idea. Can you imagine how distressed dogs in Afghanistan must be, with no trees to piddle upon? The Afghan Hounds must have somewhere to pee, or they're going to explode. I know there's no black dogs in Afghanistan, but the others must be in a diabolical state by now.
Please donate your old Christmas trees now.
1. Buying a new one will help your economy.
2. As a Christian symbol (of sorts) it'll piss the Taliban off.
3. The Afghan Hounds won't have to walk around crosslegged any more.
4. The grainy, fuzzy, black & white television pictures of a dog kennel being hit dead centre with a "Realistic 7-foot Folding Douglas Fir (Made in China)" will surely be worth the effort and expense.
Afghan Hounds
http://www.k9web.co...afghans.html#whatis
Al-woofah [thumbwax, Oct 10 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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If I've learned anything from my brother's dogs, it's that clean carpet is better for pissing on than a tree. Besides, trees will just give those Talibastards more places to hide.
But I found a way to merge your idea with my astute (actually stupid) observation: Give them trees that are actually people dressed as trees. Since they do not know what trees look like and probably have banned them anyways since we grow so many in America, these disguises can easily consist of a man wearing a very large pumpkin outfit. Besides, Halloween is creeping up shortly, and it'd give soldiers a way of feeling at home, except that they'd be a pumpkin armed with guns and explosives, and rather than giving candy to small children they'd be killing Taliban officials, but who's nitpicking? |
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We could drop The Great Pumpkin and a bunch of plastic Christmas trees into the opium patches, which are numerous. Of course, the possibility exists that, as a child, Osama stayed up all night in high hopes of seeing The Great Pumpkin...
"Ooh, what did you get Osama?"
"Another bag of rocks" |
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//because the US surely didn't target UN landmine clearance staff deliberately.// |
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I still find it hard to believe that some of the only British casualties in the Gulf War were those in a helicopter shot down by the US army. I also have never truly understood why they call this "friendly fire" |
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Are we really sure that exploding dogs in Afghanistan is such a bad thing? Xant, anyway. |
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AfroAssault, I am slack-jawed with incredulity at the very, very weird world that you inhabit. What the fu... |
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Coolking. I think you'll find that the rest of the british casualies were killed when their 2 APC's were attacked by American A10 bombers. |
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were the casualies the soldiers that turned up in shorts, t-shirts, and lashings of holiday reading? |
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Actually, DrBob, the use of "tree costumes" is not a new idea in the history of [fictional] human combat. Shakespeare dramatized this device beautifully, in "Macbeth". The good guys had the idea of approaching Dunsinane while disguised as trees -- in fulfillment of the witches' prophecy, of course. |
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"Let every soldier hew him down a bough
And bear 't before him. Thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host, and make discovery
Err in report of us."
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In light of the above, I suggest that AA's world might be as classical as it is weird. |
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1percent, I think that perhaps you should read on a bit further into Afro's idea. Trees was only his initial thought. It got better from there. Alas, if only the same were true of poor, dear AfroAssault. |
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Oh stop picking on the pirate. He's got jury duty fer chris'sakes. |
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Naw! Let 'em piddle on the taliban's and al qaida's tents. If our bombs don't kill 'em, the stench of dog piss will... |
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Owing to the antipersonnel mines that litter the countryside in Afganistan, I'd attribute the presence of more three footed dogs than four footed dogs. |
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Saves them having to lift a leg. |
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Muslims detest dogs, BTW. |
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Zoroastrians are dead keen on them, however. |
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Hooray for me! Due to my spectacular "intimidating looks" tactics, the man being prosecuted decided he would rather enter a guilty plea than have me on the jury, so basically I got $20 for showing up and looking like a hardass for 20 minutes! That's like $60/hr! Jury duty kicks ass! |
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Yes, TW, there's a haddith against them, but only black ones are to be killed. The others may not be patted, but are OK if used for hunting. |
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On a related topic, are Afghan hounds from Afghanistan? |
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