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10 Oct 07 - 01:15 PM (#2168175) Subject: BS: Osama Is Alive From: eddie1 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." |
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10 Oct 07 - 01:28 PM (#2168190) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: JohnInKansas C'mon eddie1 - get a fresh one. That one goes at least back to Nixon, and maybe before. John |
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10 Oct 07 - 01:30 PM (#2168192) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: eddie1 Sorry mate. Coming from the wrong side of the pond, I only received it yesterday. I'll ask you first next time. Eddie |
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10 Oct 07 - 01:38 PM (#2168196) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: McGrath of Harlow Where did the idea come that jokes are supposed to be newly minted? |
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10 Oct 07 - 02:02 PM (#2168212) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: Peace "Osama Is Alive" An autopsy would answer that. |
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10 Oct 07 - 02:28 PM (#2168227) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: Little Hawk Bush and Cheney are alive too. Ask yourself which is the bigger problem, them or Osama? |
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10 Oct 07 - 02:47 PM (#2168237) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: Peace They are Larry, Curly and Moe to me. No difference at all. |
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10 Oct 07 - 04:23 PM (#2168298) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: GUEST,TIA 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) |
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10 Oct 07 - 05:03 PM (#2168331) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: gnu 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. |
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10 Oct 07 - 10:13 PM (#2168493) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: JohnInKansas 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 |
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10 Oct 07 - 11:22 PM (#2168525) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: TRUBRIT Well - I am waaaaay out of the loop - I thought it was funny..... |
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11 Oct 07 - 01:52 AM (#2168576) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: Joe Offer Yup. Must be funny. Google shows 3,440 instances of 370HSSV-0773H on the Web. -Joe- |
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11 Oct 07 - 02:09 AM (#2168581) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: Little Hawk Sounds like something Chongo would think up. |
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11 Oct 07 - 08:29 AM (#2168721) Subject: RE: BS: Osama Is Alive From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine surely it's "710 0553" who won the war? |