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| When you forget why you hanged yourself |
| 2004-10-04 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 The article is actually about Turkey entering the EU. Here is a sample so that nobody hits the link expecting a funny story about auto-erotic asphyxiation ... Not that I did, mind you. "Frits Bolkestein reminds me of the fellow with Alzheimer's who decides to commit suicide. As he kicks away the chair, he forgets why he has hanged himself, and muses, "This is appalling! What am I doing hanging here?" Bolkestein, of course, is the newly notorious member of the European Commission who warned that Europe would implode like the Austro-Hungarian Empire if Turkey were admitted into the European Union. He discerns that he is dangling at the end of a noose; as Professor Bernard Lewis told Die Welt on July 28, Europe will be Islamic no later than the end of the present century. But he cannot remember why, and Europe's absorption into the Maghreb will continue no matter what he does or says." |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-10-05 12:34:22 AM |