War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation until they realized that spells 'OIL...
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Mike O'Brien
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War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation until they realized that spells 'OIL...
While on the subject of less fortunate acronyms (and oil). The Danish Oil and Natural Gas-consortium is called... DONG. No idea what they were thinking.
I can beat that one (not beat the dong)...oh never mind. In Canada (ya'll remember Canada, the country whose Prime Minister's secretary refered to Dubya during a Press conference as a Moron). Well we had 2 Federal (Right Wing Parties) named the Alliance and the Reform and they merged. Their new name was the Canadian Reform Alliance Party. You know it took them weeks before they realized their Party initials formed the word [censored]....DOH ------------------------------------------------------ "Mikael Seierup" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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War continues in Iraq. They're calling it Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation until they realized that spells 'OIL...
While on the subject of less fortunate acronyms (and oil). The Danish Oil and Natural Gas-consortium is called... DONG. No idea what they were thinking.
I can beat that one (not beat the dong)...oh never mind. In Canada (ya'll remember Canada, the country whose Prime Minister's secretary refered to Dubya during a Press conference as a Moron). Well we had 2 Federal (Right Wing Parties) named the Alliance and the Reform and they merged. Their new name was the Canadian Reform Alliance Party. You know it took them weeks before they realized their Party initials formed the word [censored]....DOH
In their defense, people might have thought they were up to something fishy if they had chosen Canadian Alliance Reform Party instead.
Tom Sherman - Various HPV's Quad Cities USA (Illinois side)
Guess What I've been a member of CARP for 2 years. The Canadian Association of Retired Persons. -------------------------------------------- "Tom Sherman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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I can beat that one (not beat the dong)...oh never mind. In Canada (ya'll remember Canada, the country whose Prime Minister's secretary refered to Dubya during a Press conference as a Moron). Well
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had 2 Federal (Right Wing Parties) named the Alliance and the Reform and they merged. Their new name was the Canadian Reform Alliance Party. You
know
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it took them weeks before they realized their Party initials formed the
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[censored]....DOH
In their defense, people might have thought they were up to something fishy if they had chosen Canadian Alliance Reform Party instead.
Tom Sherman - Various HPV's Quad Cities USA (Illinois side)