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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
October 27, 2005
An Interesting Fact
Here's an interesting fact from this week's New Yorker about Saddam Hussein's trial:
...setting up the trial has cost American, not Iraqi, taxpayers some hundred and thirty million dollars.
I wonder if there are any ways we could recoup some of this money? Just for instance, we could charge:
• $100 for a pay-per-view special hosted by Howard Stern featuring Saddam-Chalabi jello wrestling
• $1,000 to get your picture taken with Saddam
• $10,000 to get your picture taken with Saddam while wearing a t-shirt of the Israeli flag
• $100,000 to make Saddam listen to you sing a loud karaoke version of "We Are The Champions"
Of course, all these ideas would be horribly offensive to the Arab world and humanity generally. In the end they'd cost us much more than we'd ever make in the first place. But then, long-term thinking really isn't America's strong suit.
Other suggestions are welcome.
Posted at October 27, 2005 10:29 AM | TrackBack$100,000,000 to have Bush apologize for the war on live TV.
In lieu of that, a no-holds-barred Cheney/Saddam cage match on pay-per-view. (When Cheney's heart fails in the first two minutes, he can tag out to Rumsfeld.)
Posted by: slim at October 27, 2005 11:50 AMOf course, all these ideas would be horribly offensive to the Arab world and humanity generally. In the end they'd cost us much more than we'd ever make in the first place.
That's pretty much in keeping with the theme of the whole war, anyway. In for a penny, as they say...
Posted by: Tex MacRae at October 27, 2005 03:24 PMCheney never got over the bitchslaping he got during Gulf War I. He proposed some half-assed idiocy involving parachuting some SpecOps folk into Baghdad to assassinate Hussein and when the generals balked (the SpecOps would have all died with no support lines or ways to get out, it was essentially as militarily brilliant as plowing a bunch of F-117A's into likely spots he was frequenting) he was pissed for years. I really wonder how much his hurt pride from the Bush the Greater admin factored into this whole thing.
