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2013-09-30 Britain

Al Qaeda rocket blows lid on IRA cigarette cargo

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula

#1 Who says the IRA are not gangsters?

Posted by Paul D 2013-09-30 05:32|| 2013-09-30 05:32|| Front Page Top

#2 the Mexicans sank an enormous Irish merchantman carrying a cargo of mayonnaise. They still celebrate the Sinko de Mayo.

A haunting life riddle finally solved. Thank you !

Posted by Besoeker 2013-09-30 07:24|| 2013-09-30 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Post 9/11 the IRA's money from US sympathizers dried up. The IRA needs to earn a living somehow.

Posted by retired LEO 2013-09-30 13:15|| 2013-09-30 13:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Post 9/11 the IRA's money from US sympathizers dried up.

That, and the IRA began morphing into a criminal organization back in the 1980s. They'd also gotten into fuel smuggling as well as bringing in illegals.

Posted by Pappy 2013-09-30 14:15|| 2013-09-30 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 The horror! the impervious horror!

In the year of the great Irish-Mexican War
We set sail from landlocked Castlebar
We were sailing away to Stone Town, Zanzibar
With a hold full of aioli jars
Our inelegant craft wasn't rigged fore and aft
As the trade winds lightly stroked her
She was rigged all lateen; she rode like a tureen
And they called her the Irish Smoker

We had one million sheaves of the best tanna leaves
We had two million elephants' trunks
We had three million lakhs of Black Bottom shellacs
And an army of clay Peking ducks
We had four million gross of unblessed whole-wheat hosts
In japanned boxes all stencilled "kosher"
We had five million skeins of flight line, OD green
In the hold of the Irish Smoker

When we reached the Suez, I put on my good fez
For I heard we should have liberty
But instead, who could guess, in a turban and dress,
What popped up from behind the leveeee?
'Twas the Frito Bandito, whose bloodcurdling grito
Made desert breeze blow colder
And his wee RPG seemed to fly straight at me
On the deck of the Irish Smoker

From the stern came a blast as I shouted "avast!"
And our bow skittered over the water
We surfed and we swerved in a broad starboard curve
Barely scraping past Gibraltar
Skipper cried "I'll be damned" for our rudder had jammed
A-starboard two points over
We bounced through the rain all the way around Spain
On the runaway Irish Smoker

At Ushant as she passed, we threw two shoes with spats
Then she did loop-de-loops up the channel
Finally her speed decreased, for the engine had seized
So we lowered the boats and paddled
As she struck, in the haze, all that French mayonnaise
Smashed and whitewashed the grey cliffs of Dover
Such a hullabaloo for our crew to go through
At the wreck of the Irish Smoker

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2013-09-30 18:52|| 2013-09-30 18:52|| Front Page Top

#6 This is NOT gonna endear Al-Qaeda to the IRA Boyz.

Legend has it that the capital of Ireland/Eire is actually Boston, MA USoA; followed by Australia, Canada, + Mexico in that order???

* "Which was supposed to had suspended all activities seven years ago" - OOOOOPPPPPPSSSS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-09-30 19:37|| 2013-09-30 19:37|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm not sure that much fun is legal, Zenobia Floger6220. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2013-09-30 23:53|| 2013-09-30 23:53|| Front Page Top

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