Replying to a message of WAYNE CHIRNSIDE to GEORGE POPE:

 WC> -=> GEORGE POPE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 GP>> On (23 Sep 06) WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ALL...
 WC>> In what may be coup for the Bush administration the French
 WC>> announced today Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid.
 WC>> 
 WC>> When asked to comment on the story President Bush
 WC>> threatened to bomb the French back
 WC>> to the stone age.

 GP>> Seriously?  Got a cite for this?  Why would he say that?

 WC> Literary license was taken here.
 WC> It's a amalgamation of real and speculative news ( made up)
 WC> unfortunately not far wide of the reality.

Actually it was Pakistan, not France.  And the administration has denied
ever saying it.

 WC> Thus the play on Saturday Night's Chevy Chase - Jane Curtain
 WC> Weekend Update.

 WC>> The Secretary of the Air Force says it's time for all
 WC>> Patriotic Americans to stand up and be microwaved.

 GP>> What the hell is that supposed to MEAN???

 WC> Don't tell me you missed the announcement?
 WC> It was in ALL the daily newspapers I read.

I must've missed it.  I didn't hear it on the (radio) news and 
it wasn't mentioned in the Omaha fishwrapper, which I get
almost every day.

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