Honolulu Lite
Remember how popular Adolph Hitler masks were on the Halloween immediately following the German blitzkrieg of London? Neither do I. Which raises the question about people planning to wearing Osama bin Laden masks this Halloween: Are they insane? Why not just draw a big old target on your back? These masks are a real terror
No one would have been caught dead wearing a Hitler mask. Wait. Turn that around. Anyone dumb enough to wear a Hitler mask would have been caught dead, or close to it. Yet, for some reason, bin Laden masks are expected to be a big "hit" this Halloween. Pity the child trick-or-treating in rural parts of Texas and Alabama in bin Laden garb.
Now for more Osama-related news:
The mask of zeros
NEW YORK (Reuters) >> A New York costume shop owner says he will sell Osama bin Laden masks only to people who plan to use it to create effigies of the terrorist."If they're going to use it to hang him, or put him in an electric chair, fine," said Paul Blum, of Abracadabra costume shop. "But to wear, to run around to have fun being bin Laden, I don't think so."
Abracadabra customers said that anyone who wore a bin Laden mask on the streets of New York City was taking his life in his hands.
(Didn't I just say that?)
This spam kinds smells
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) >> A Pennsylvania man who wanted to promote cooperation between Iraq and the United States says he received an email from Saddam Hussein wishing him peace.Christopher Love, 43, said he emailed the Iraqi president after the Sept. 11 attack. He was surprised when he received a message purporting to be from Saddam expressing condolences for the incident and wishing Love "a long life."
(Love also claims to have received an email from Elvis wishing that he'd "lay off those blue suede shoes.")
Before there was football
GULBAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) >> In a diversion from the on-going civil war, hundreds of Afghans gathered to watch the traditional sport of buzkashi, in which whip-wielding men on horses battle over the carcass of a young calf.A Northern Alliance commander said dragging a dead calf around is a good way to boost the troops' morale.
(And these sensitive fellows are on OUR side.)
Honolulu Lite on Sunday: Once again, Honolulu is ignored in a list of places alleged to have the best year-round weather in favor of places like Casablanca. Casablanca? Round up the usual suspects.
Quote me on this: "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde.
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