h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is too funny...
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Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame)
Sunday, January 26, 2003
The Observer.
England.


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 p*ssed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street.

Well, he 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 f 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!

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 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, its 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 ntending, my policy will destroy only one street.

You know you're on shaky ground when a member of Monty Python adopts your logic.

That's getting passed to all and sundry I do believe..

Superb!

Seamus

http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4591777,00.html

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Careful of the copyright Geggs... this copy might well end up disappearing

Ah. It's all so stupid. The latest thing is the "human rights" violations that Saddam has been playing with.

What's the answer?

Let's go and ask Our wonderful PM, Mister Tony Blair.

So Tony, what's the best way to sort out the human rights violations in Iraq.

*a second passes*

Tony - WHY A WAR OF COURSE!!!

Hmmm. How stupid do they think we are?

Yep. It is the same darn thing.

!!!

That is far too funny and too accurate...

Geggs, you may not be aware of this but when you type a long line of characters with no spaces it makes the post too wide for my computer screen. i'm not sure how many other people are affected like this but its really annoying. especially in long posts as i have to scroll to the right to read one line and then back to the start of the second line, scroll to read that then back again etc etc etc.

long urls will do it as well but you can't really do anything about them. in this case i think it was the _______...


anyway the post does look very funny so i'll go chase up the offsite link.

Brilliant!

Yeah, kea, I did know that, and that line just filled the screen in preview, but clearly it's too long when posted.

Err, you could look at it in the plain skin - it wraps around in that one.


Geggs

'cept i'm in love with goo at the moment.




i temporarily decreased the font size in my browser which made it fit in my screen, but was hard to read.


was worth it though