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#88770 12/05/2002 8:25 PM
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I had one of those coffee-out-through-the-nose moments today. Rereading P.J. O'Rourke's All The Troubles In The World, I came across his description of Mogadishu in 1993:

"The town looked exactly like a crime scene where the murderer has remained but the corpse has fled the scene."

He's hard to beat for symbolism!

- Pfranz

#88771 12/10/2002 1:12 PM
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Sounds like my current home-town at 2 am on a Saturday!




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