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sit in the infidels' corner, with shanksNow hold on just a cotton-pickin' minute, there! If somebody calls my sweet shanks an infidel, it had better be for a darned-good reason! [warning glower emoticon] 'Sides, if those two are anywhere together, why, I think I'll just mosey on over and join 'em! 
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But, but, but, it's such a great word, and it's so catholic - everybody's an infidel to somebody! Or would you rather I open a diner and call it the "Allahu Snackbar"? 
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But, but, but, it's such a great word, and it's so catholic - everybody's an infidel to somebody! Or would you rather I open a diner and call it the "Allahu Snackbar"? No, it ain't! Just about anybody who was over the age of five in the 1960's U.S. will tell you that that's entirely too close to Fidel, the dreaded Hydra of nearby Cuba. And, uh, Allah who? 
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In reply to:
to Fidel, the dreaded Hydra of nearby Cuba.
Ah yes, Cuba. Like Vietnam, Cuba committed the unforgiveable sin. She embarrassed the United States, a crime for which she must be punished until the end of time, or at least until Cuba is once again run by La Cosa Nostra as it was in the good old days of Bautista. Still, you've inspired me wih a great Christmas gift idea - a humidor full of the finest Havanas for Jesse Helms.
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S'okay. Dubya will probably send Castro poisoned chocolates for Christmas so that he can say he "got somethin' in Fidel".  I'll go grovelling with shanks any day!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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>Fidel, the dreaded Hydra of nearby Cuba
Funny how people see things differently. Many people that I know tend to associate Cuba with good rum and those rather fetching red and black Che Guevara poster that we all used to have on our walls when we were students.
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Being quasi-medically trained, this question has me quite vexed. If such a word was to exist, I imagine it would be an aurition. I think that auditory hallucinations tends to be the term that is used most often. Just to confuse the issue, if you experience an aurition due to a visual (or any non-auditory stimuli) that would be an example of synaesthesia.
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..see something that is not real we speak of a “vision”.If I remember the story correctly, the vision of Jeanne d'Arc was accompanied by voices. I don't think the meaning of the word is restricted to the visual domain. In today's "industrial" use it includes just about anything that is not (yet) real  .
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