Replying to a message of WAYNE CHIRNSIDE to BOB ACKLEY:

 WC> -=> BOB ACKLEY wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 BA>> Replying to a message of WAYNE CHIRNSIDE to GEORGE POPE:

 -=>>> 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.

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

 WC> I did say I took license.

 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.

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

 WC> Here's one of 155,000 returned links to the story
 WC> http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html
 WC> I had to google it myself it seemed so
 WC> dubious when I read it back.

That's nice.  Unfortunately - or probably fortunately - I don't have Internet
access.

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