Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:34 PM
"Me against my brothers,...
me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my brother and my cousins against the world"
انا على أخوي وأنا وأخوي على ابن عمي وأنا وابن عمي على الغريب"" Got it? This is why its a FOOL'S ERRAND to involve ourselves further in Iraq. Be it one troop, bomb, or drone. Unless, of course, your goal is to sell arms at great cost to the distressed American public, and to steal other countries oil. At least, that's how I see it! 
EDIT: Fixed Title!
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Author | Time | Post |
 "Me against my brothers,... (Original post) |
grahamhgreen | Jun 2014 | OP |
| whistler162 | Jun 2014 | #1 | |
| grahamhgreen | Jun 2014 | #11 | |
| Tierra_y_Libertad | Jun 2014 | #2 | |
| MineralMan | Jun 2014 | #3 | |
| grahamhgreen | Jun 2014 | #5 | |
| MineralMan | Jun 2014 | #6 | |
| DavidDvorkin | Jun 2014 | #4 | |
| herding cats | Jun 2014 | #7 | |
| tularetom | Jun 2014 | #8 | |
| grahamhgreen | Jun 2014 | #9 | |
| csziggy | Jun 2014 | #10 |
Response to grahamhgreen (Original post)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:36 PM
whistler162 (11,155 posts)
1. OKAY... I read it as
Response to grahamhgreen (Original post)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:36 PM
MineralMan (145,718 posts)
3. Unicode characters do not display in DU post titles.
Response to grahamhgreen (Reply #5)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:38 PM
MineralMan (145,718 posts)
6. Cool. I made that mistake once.
Response to grahamhgreen (Original post)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:37 PM
DavidDvorkin (19,059 posts)
4. Those don't work in the title line.
Response to grahamhgreen (Original post)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:39 PM
herding cats (19,242 posts)
7. Thanks for the edit.
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I was totally confused.
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Response to grahamhgreen (Original post)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:40 PM
8. Actually that reads "There once was a man from Nantucket"
Response to grahamhgreen (Reply #9)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 03:49 PM
csziggy (34,018 posts)
10. Oh, there are non-ribald versions!
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But that do seem to involved really bad puns.
The earliest published version appeared in 1902 in the Princeton Tiger:[1][2][3]
There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket. Other publications seized upon the "Nantucket" motif, spawning many sequels[4][5] Among the most well known are: But he followed the pair to Pawtucket, The man and the girl with the bucket; And he said to the man, He was welcome to Nan, But as for the bucket, Pawtucket. Followed later by: Then the pair followed Pa to Manhasset, Where he still held the cash as an asset, But Nan and the man Stole the money and ran, And as for the bucket, Manhasset. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_once_was_a_man_from_Nantucket |
