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2005-05-14 Afghanistan/South Asia
Nuggets from the Urdu press
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Posted by Fred 2005-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 ...Reads Tipu Sultan's list of the Nine Women He Wouldn't Go Near, and wonders if he's met my ex-wife. She had at LEAST seven of those...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-05-14 00:13||   2005-05-14 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Columnist Irshad Arif wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that the NGO mafia was active in Pakistan on the basis of dollars and pounds sent from abroad.

Amateurs...
Posted by Tony Soprano 2005-05-14 00:14||   2005-05-14 00:14|| Front Page Top

#3 If it's the same Tipoo, I doubt if he met her. He's been dead for 200 years.

Young Arthur Wellesley made his name defeating old Tipoo, who had a mechanical tiger that made realistic growling noises. I believe Wellesley's regiment still has it in their possession, though they say the growl's pretty anemic by now.
Posted by Fred">Fred  2005-05-14 00:26|| www.rantburg.com]">[www.rantburg.com]  2005-05-14 00:26|| Front Page Top

#4 "He was forced into sentimental tears by the goose-step used by Pakistani soldiers who brought their foot higher than their heads while taking down the flag."

This guy ever gets a load of Zhang Ziyi, his head will explode.
Posted by Spoque Snomose1127 2005-05-14 01:23||   2005-05-14 01:23|| Front Page Top

#5 
According to Khabrain Prof Pareshan Khatak told an audience in Peshawar that according to his research the first man, Hazrat Adam, spoke Pushto after his creation by Allah. He was answering the charges of those who said that Pushto was the language of Hell because of its hard accent. Hew said the language of Paradise was Pushto.
Hold on a second... I thought for Moslems that Arabic was supposed to be the sacred primal language?

Wouldn't saying that anything besides the language used to write the Koran was the language of Heaven be sacreligious?
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-14 02:41|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-14 02:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Why you are correct Dr Phil! He will burn in hell, his eyes will explode, his penis will fall off and he will have to run SCO UNIX on I286 for eternity for saying such a thing.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-05-14 05:08||   2005-05-14 05:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Thread hijack warning! SCO Unix ran just fine on an intel 286. I used to run Oracle as well as multiple sessions.
Posted by phil_b 2005-05-14 05:23||   2005-05-14 05:23|| Front Page Top

#8 And you loved every miunte of it I am sure, but would you run it NOW espically with the curerent owners?
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-05-14 05:28||   2005-05-14 05:28|| Front Page Top

#9 The current owners don't have anything to do with the people who wrote SCO Unix to begin with.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-14 11:56|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-14 11:56|| Front Page Top

#10 An interesting link between Tipu Sultan and the Star Spangled Banner

Missile History


Later at the battle of Srirangapattana (4th Anglo-Mysore war) in April 1799, British forces lead by Colonel Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) ran away from the battlefield when attacked by rockets and musket fire of Tipu Sultan's army. Unlike contemporary rockets whose combustion chamber was made of wood (bamboo), Tipu's rockets (weighing between 2.2 to 5.5 kg) used iron cylinder casings that allowed greater pressure, thrust and range (1.5 to 2.5 Km) [4]. The British were greatly impressed by the Mysorean rockets using iron tubes. At the end of war more then 700 rockets and sub systems of 900 rockets were captured and sent to England. William Congreve thoroughly examined the Indian specimens to reverse engineer and making its copies that were later used successfully in naval attack on Boulogne [5] (1806), siege of Copenhagen [6] (1807) and also against Fort Washington (New York) during the American Independence War, that is recounted as, rockets' red glare in the U.S. National Anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." [7]
Posted by john 2005-05-14 13:27||   2005-05-14 13:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Connections IV
-by RB John

*applause*
Posted by .com 2005-05-14 13:30||   2005-05-14 13:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Let's talk about the deadly whiz-bangs what attacked US forces in the Gulf 'O Tonkin.
Posted by Shipman 2005-05-14 14:27||   2005-05-14 14:27|| Front Page Top

#13 I thought the American War of Independence was 1776, twenty years before the battle of Srirangapattana. Could we be referring to the War of 1812 here?
Posted by john">john  2005-05-14 19:34||   2005-05-14 19:34|| Front Page Top

#14 It was the war of 1812 and it was Fort McHenry in Baltimore being bombarded by the British warships. The lyrics were written in 1814.



Posted by john 2005-05-14 19:51||   2005-05-14 19:51|| Front Page Top

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