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19 Sep 08 - 01:11 AM (#2444699) Subject: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Little Hawk In tonight's news: CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian donkey has been jailed for stealing corn on the cob from a field belonging to an agricultural research institute in the Nile Delta, local media reported on Thursday. The ass and its owner were apprehended at a police checkpoint that had been set up after the institute's director complained that someone was stealing his crops, the state-owned Al-Ahram daily said. The unnamed ungulate was found in possession of the institute's corn and a local judge sentenced him to 24 hours in prison. The man who had his ass thrown in jail got off with a fine of 50 Egyptian pounds (nine dollars, six euros). |
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19 Sep 08 - 01:23 AM (#2444705) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Amergin That is slander! I was not in Egypt! |
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19 Sep 08 - 05:25 AM (#2444830) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: John MacKenzie I like an arresting ass |
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19 Sep 08 - 06:14 AM (#2444847) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Paul Burke Fining the owner was over- reaction. They should have just told him to get his ass outa here. |
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19 Sep 08 - 06:24 AM (#2444851) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Peace Saw the title and thought, "But he's in Washington . . .". |
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19 Sep 08 - 07:09 AM (#2444870) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: catspaw49 And we all know what happens to an ass in jail.......... Spaw |
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19 Sep 08 - 07:35 AM (#2444890) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: GUEST,hg NO Pat, tell us what happened to you???? hahahahah |
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19 Sep 08 - 07:35 AM (#2444892) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: GUEST,hg On second thought, nevermind! |
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19 Sep 08 - 07:37 AM (#2444895) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work Wonder if the owner's name was Balaam? He couldn't shift his ass either. LTS |
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19 Sep 08 - 08:12 AM (#2444912) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Becca72 I had the same thought Peace did... |
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19 Sep 08 - 09:53 AM (#2444984) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: kendall Me too |
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19 Sep 08 - 10:44 AM (#2445032) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: topical tom I didn't think it was GWB. The first name wasn't "Horse's". |
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19 Sep 08 - 10:48 AM (#2445037) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Charley Noble We should take up a collection and bail the ass out! No, that doesn't sound quite like the motion we want to present to the judge on second thought... Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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19 Sep 08 - 01:11 PM (#2445188) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Little Hawk This is the kind of story that really makes "the news" worthwhile, in my opinion. |
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19 Sep 08 - 01:26 PM (#2445206) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: MartinRyan Now if it had been a goat... we could have avoided the B.S. tag! Click here Regards |
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19 Sep 08 - 06:38 PM (#2445492) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Ed T Not related....but... A blind man is walking down the street with his seeing eye dog one day. They come to a busy intersection, and the dog, ignoring the high volume of traffic zooming by on the street, leads the blind man right out into the thick of traffic. This is followed by the screech of tires and horns blaring as panicked drivers try desperately not to run the pair down. The blind man and the dog finally reach the safety of the sidewalk on the other side of the street, and the blind man pulls a cookie out of his coat pocket which he offers to the dog. A passerby, having observed the near fatal incident, can't control his amazement and says to the blind man, "Why on earth are you rewarding your dog with a cookie? He nearly got you killed!" The blind man turns partially in his direction and replies, "To find out where his head is, so I can kick his ass." |
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19 Sep 08 - 08:44 PM (#2445556) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Joe_F TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued _in contumaciam_ the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dogs, goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this _cause celebre_ nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction. -- Ambrose Bierce |
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19 Sep 08 - 10:29 PM (#2445614) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Little Hawk Ha! Ha! Ha! I love Ambrose Bierce's keen and acerbic wit. He has nailed it perfectly. |
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20 Sep 08 - 02:57 AM (#2445723) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Genie I think the headline should have been: "Egyptian Gets Ass Thrown In Jail" (Oh, and when I read the thread title, my first thought was, "Did Dubya make another trip to Egypt recently?) Genie |
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20 Sep 08 - 06:56 PM (#2446164) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Ed T WOMEN'S ASS SIZE STUDY There is a new study out about women and how they feel about their asses! I thought the results were pretty interesting: 85% of women think their ass is too fat... 10% of women think their ass is too skinny... The other 5% say that they don't care, they love him, he's a good man, and they would have married him anyway. |
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20 Sep 08 - 07:45 PM (#2446184) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Peace LOLOLOL |
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21 Sep 08 - 01:11 AM (#2446296) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Genie Ed, I've heard that one before -- but it's worth the retelling, because it's so TRUE!!! *g* |
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21 Sep 08 - 09:46 PM (#2446927) Subject: RE: BS: Ass gets arrested in Egypt From: Richard Bridge And one may get elected in the USA. And another in the UK. What the hell is wrong with people? |