BS: Osama Is Alive

Subject: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: eddie1
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 01:15 PM

Something for humpday - enjoy this one.


After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive,"

Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own
handwriting to let him know he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a single line of
coded message:

370HSSV-0773H

Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides
had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI.

No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to the
NSA.
With no clue as to its meaning they eventually asked Britain's MI-5 for
help. Within a minute MI-5 cabled the White House with this reply:
"Tell the President he's holding the message upside down."

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 01:28 PM

C'mon eddie1 - get a fresh one.

That one goes at least back to Nixon, and maybe before.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: eddie1
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 01:30 PM

Sorry mate. Coming from the wrong side of the pond, I only received it yesterday. I'll ask you first next time.

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 01:38 PM

Where did the idea come that jokes are supposed to be newly minted?

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: Peace
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 02:02 PM

"Osama Is Alive"

An autopsy would answer that.

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 02:28 PM

Bush and Cheney are alive too. Ask yourself which is the bigger problem, them or Osama?

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: Peace
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 02:47 PM

They are Larry, Curly and Moe to me. No difference at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 04:23 PM

Similar one - who wins any war in the Middle East?

710 77345

That one has been around since I was in grade school. (works better on an old calculator screen)

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 05:03 PM

Well, if the ME and Asia can be destabilized to the point that they use nuclear weapons, then, the US, Commonwealth, Russia, China... (read east and west) will have justification to use them. How is that for a big bang up theory?

Um, isn't that the easiest route to ridding the world of poor people? Nuke em? But, you gotta have a good reason, right?

Oops, sorry, "good reason", my mistake. Excuse.

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 10:13 PM

Sorry if I sounded harsh eddie1. I should have implied a 371W5.

Had we been together over a pint, "get a fresh one" would have had the proper intonation of the groan that follows an old - - - and fondly remembered - - - bad pun.

Approximately 1980(?) or thereabouts, when the first "pocket calculators" appeared, there was a brisk and healthy(?) competition in some circles to see how many rude things could be spelled using the "upside down numbers" as they appeared on the early (primitive?) LED displays.

For best presentation, switching your browser font temporarily to something like one of the "OCR" or "ATX" family fonts will get the proper rounded 3 and open 4. "Back then" there were some particularly favored typewriter fonts that worked quite well, but my memory has lost their names.

Perhaps someone with nothing better to do might find some of the old smartass constructions still floating around the net(?).

John

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 10 Oct 07 - 11:22 PM

Well - I am waaaaay out of the loop - I thought it was funny.....

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 01:52 AM

Yup. Must be funny. Google shows 3,440 instances of 370HSSV-0773H on the Web.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 02:09 AM

Sounds like something Chongo would think up.

Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 11 Oct 07 - 08:29 AM

surely it's "710 0553" who won the war?