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>should have been the WTO
World Trade Organization?
We'll Take Over??
Word's Tyranny Overcomes?!
what?
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In my family, there's a tradition: stand a tree branch, maybe a foot long, in a holder and tie a red ribbon to it to make it festive. Hang an old gun shell from one of the twigs. You have just created "a cartridge in a bare tree."
(I, in the tradition of Voltaire, would rather hang a pen cartridge but whatchagunna do - we have a deer hunter in the family)
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My brother is an over the road truck driver. He told me that over the weekend he was driving through rural Georgia where he noticed a community creche scene in front of the city hall of some small city. The three wise men were dressed in firefighters' turnout gear, coats, helmets, boots, and airpacks on their backs. Bob, being the curious sort, stopped at the local Piggly Wiggly and asked what was going on with the creche scene.
The woman behind the counter glared at him and said, "You northerners don't read your bibles very much, do you?"
Bob responded that he was a lay minister but had never heard that the Wise Men had such noble occupations. The woman retorted, "Hmmmph, it says right there in the Bible that the three wise men came from a fahr!"
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Capital Kiwi: one of my colleagues formerly from China calls me, a "capitalist roader". Dear Cap, Maybe your alternate handle could be CapRunningDog.  wow
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… and in today's Melbourne Age, cartoonist and poet
Michael Leunig gives us this version:
While shepherds washed their socks by night
All seated on the ground
The angel of the Lord came down
And no one looked around.
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WOW suggests: Capital Kiwi: one of my colleagues formerly from China calls me, a "capitalist roader".
Dear Cap, Maybe your alternate handle could be CapRunningDog.
wow
I won't suggest it to her. She has a wicked sense of humour and a very, very good grasp of English idiom, considering it's her second language ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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tsuwm hints:
should have been the WTO
World Trade Organization?
We'll Take Over??
Word's Tyranny Overcomes?!
what?
World Trade Organisation. The 4-year chairmanship position was up for a new appointment. One bloc favoured Mike Moore from NZ, the other bloc favoured a Thai gentleman whose name eludes me. So a compromise was reached - they do two years each.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Good King Saurkraut look out!
On yo' feets uneven,
While the snoo lay round and bout,
Ragged and uneven.
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Going low-brow here...
Actually this is one we used to sing on the monkey bars in elementary school...
We three kings
Of oil and tar
Tried to smoke
A rubber cigar
It was loaded
And exploded
Now there are only two
Ooooooo
We two kings... etc.
As I recall, the song ends with the rerain
Siii-ilent Niiight.
It was damned funny to we third graders!
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Is this why there is only solomente one Doug? But of course, es solamente, mea culpa, Monsieur Doug a bit of a quadralingual correction 
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