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FINN MAC CUMHAL

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 1:53 AM

This morning I stopped at Starbucks to order a Grande Cappuccino and a blueberry Roses of the Prophet Mohammad with those little sprinkle things. Also there may have been nuts.

I think we have an opportunity to help enact real change in the Muslim world. If we all band together and act like renaming the Danish is the worst, most egregious offense they could have ever inflicted on the Western world, I think we might start a new trend in terrorism that we can all live with. This way when some Islamic fruitcake gets a hankering to burn down an embassy or blow up a school bus, he’ll stop and think about all the fuse that Danish renaming thing caused and instead he will rename a fruit or something. To which we will have to respond in kind with some collective haul of bogus agony and anguish like something alien just jumped out of our chests. It might get old after a while with the shear number of fruitcakes, but is that really any more difficult then invading a country?

Oh, he's so full of manure, that man! We could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him.
-- Ruby

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:30 AM

Finn,

As usual, you're thinking on your feet. We can't let them kill free speech, but maybe we can work something out where papers can print retractions, apologies to allah, disclaimers, or something that allows them to say stuff with free speech, but not offend to the point where it sparks a war.

But I have Fatwa-envy, so I need to say this:

Jihad Jellydonut.

SEVENPERCENT

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:01 AM

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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
This morning I stopped at Starbucks ... Also there may have been nuts.

In a Starbucks? I'm sure there were lots of nuts. Look for the guy ordering a "triple mocha decaf latte anything with foam and sprinkles." That's the type.

...oh you meant actual nuts. My bad.

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DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:08 AM

Welcome back 7%, long time no see.

KHYRON

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:40 AM

Glad you're back, 7%. Hopefully you'll be actively posting for a longer time period than the last time.

CITIZEN

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SevenPercent:
In a Starbucks? I'm sure there were lots of nuts. Look for the guy ordering a "triple mocha decaf latte anything with foam and sprinkles." That's the type.

...oh you meant actual nuts. My bad.

Personally, I think your all a Roses of the Prophet Muhammad short of a bakery...

Works in any Circumstance, CitizenIsA Pastry.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
You should never give powers to a leader you like that you’d hate to have given to a leader you fear

SIGNYM

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:32 PM

Hmmm.... maybe we should rename all of our pastries in honor of Allah? Mohammed-cakes (cupcakes), Fringes of Allah's robe (bear claws), Leaves of Koran (Napoleans), 100-Virgins (donuts). Or do you think the irony would be lost?

I'm beginning to understand the reaction to the "Koran flushed down the toilet" story. At first I thought it was an unexpected abberation- you know, a stand-in for invasion, torture prisons, needless civilian death, occupation. Now I see it's just sheer nutty fundamentalism.

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I now have a fatwa on me.

DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:19 AM

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Hmmm.... maybe we should rename all of our pastries in honor of Allah? Mohammed-cakes (cupcakes), Fringes of Allah's robe (bear claws), Leaves of Koran (Napoleans), 100-Virgins (donuts). Or do you think the irony would be lost?

Signy are you nuts?!!?!?!??

You're robbing us of all of our Jihad subsitutes! It's important we compile the list, and then feed them one pastry rename for every act of insolent western pig imperialism.

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I'm beginning to understand the reaction to the "Koran flushed down the toilet" story. At first I thought it was an unexpected abberation- you know, a stand-in for invasion, torture prisons, needless civilian death, occupation. Now I see it's just sheer nutty fundamentalism.

Yep, exactly what it is. The argument that they did this because of our invasion of Iraq would hold a lot more water if they weren't already doing it.

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I now have a fatwa on me.

So don't we all.

THEINCOMPARABLENOTION

Friday, February 24, 2006 9:27 PM

"Roses of the prophet Muhammed," what a silly name for a pastry.

Couldn't they be a bit more imaginative in the naming of our dear and beloved pastries?

I would find this Muhammed cartoon incident remarkably hilarious, barring, of course, the chaos and violence that ensued.

STORYMARK

Friday, February 24, 2006 9:58 PM

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Originally posted by Khyron:
I don't get it. 'Roses of the Prophet Muhammad' isn't blasphemous? So the pastries invented by the unholy, evil, heathen infidels, the ones who brought about all this chaos and destruction because of their wretched cartoons and freedom of expression, are likened to the roses of the holy Prophet? Aren't roses of the holy Prophet themselves holy? So... uhm... huh?

Except, by that rationelle, calling French Fries "Freedom Fries" would imply that France is the foremost bastion of freedom.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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