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[OT] Explaining a failed joke; ignoreby BerntB (Deacon) |
on Aug 17, 2005 at 19:55 UTC ( [id://484565]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
The Arabs lost control of Portugal quite a few hundreds year ago. :-)
I'll explain, even tough you probably understood the joke and tried to be funny, too. :-) US declared war against Spain using as excuse that a ship exploded in a harbor (in Cuba, I think). Noone still knows why the ship exploded. Considering WMDs etc, I joked that a Portugese man-o-war burning a US citizen would result in Portugal being bombed. I had the disclaimer, because I consider Chomsky as reliable as Fox News; as much religion as Vi-believers (Emacs lovers are of course just using reason). But this is totally off topic.
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