AND THEY WERE THIS CLOSE TO LETTING HIM GO
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That was "fast." Har-har-har.
Posted by: Mike Antonucci | June 23, 2006 at 05:21 PM
a hunger strike could be an implement of mass reduction...
Posted by: insomniac | June 23, 2006 at 05:23 PM
"The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch Thursday in protest at the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen, but the spokesman said he ate his evening meal."
What, did he finally remember that he had ordered the hit himself?
Posted by: marfie | June 23, 2006 at 05:24 PM
And yet, another "snork!" - Insomniac, you are on a roll today!
Posted by: marfie | June 23, 2006 at 05:26 PM
He ordered Iraq of lamb with thyme to celebrate his coming off the hunger strike, but was just given thyme in the can..
Posted by: Sean | June 23, 2006 at 05:27 PM
Maybe they served Spam for dinner.
Posted by: Mike Antonucci | June 23, 2006 at 05:27 PM
He truly is a man of conviction (Yeah, yeah, I know).
Posted by: KOW | June 23, 2006 at 05:28 PM
Hermione: I've decided there are better ways of making a stand about elf rights.
Ron: Yeah. That, and you were hungry.
Posted by: Bumble | June 23, 2006 at 05:39 PM
Next time I skip lunch I'm calling Reuters.
Posted by: Mike Antonucci | June 23, 2006 at 05:44 PM
Those bastard jailers waved Twinkies™ and Snickers™ Bars under his nose and he caved in like paper wraps rock!
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 23, 2006 at 06:00 PM
I'm sorry, that should have been Mars™ bars.
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 23, 2006 at 06:03 PM
Even Homer Simpson made it a week.
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | June 23, 2006 at 06:04 PM
That's it! I'm skipping dinner in protest of his protest! I swear I will only have snack foods accompanied by red wine. Such consumption couldn't possibly be called "dinner."
I only have to do this til midnight, right?
Posted by: Suzy Q | June 23, 2006 at 06:33 PM
Careful now, sir. Miss too many meals and your brain may stop functioning properly.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 23, 2006 at 06:34 PM
Maybe he heard they were serving shipped beef on toast for lunch that day....but then they came around with tuna casserole for dinner, and he just said What the Hey!
Posted by: Eleanor | June 23, 2006 at 06:42 PM
AAARRRGGGH! chipped beef, not shipped beef!!
Posted by: Eleanor | June 23, 2006 at 06:43 PM
El~ Well, it was probably shipped first.
Posted by: Bumble | June 23, 2006 at 06:44 PM
or maybe 'tipped' beef.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 23, 2006 at 06:49 PM
Annie~ *snork*
Posted by: Bumble | June 23, 2006 at 06:50 PM
Bumble! I haven't seen you around lately.
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 23, 2006 at 07:00 PM
aide: The all-powerful Saddam, Scimitar of the Faith, Hammer of the Kurds, the heir of Saladin and Nabuchadnezzar, will go on a hunger strike until he is freed!
guard: too bad , 'cause it's Friday night and that means...
Saddam: Oh no, not Sloppy Joes! Dang, we'll try again next week...
Posted by: insomniac | June 23, 2006 at 07:01 PM
Maybe he didn't want to eat his lunch cuz there were curds in his whey. You know how he is about that.
Posted by: Pitty Pat | June 23, 2006 at 07:03 PM
I know. I've been busy, regrettably. I thought my schedule would be smoother and easier once school was out, but it became even more crazed with the spring rush at work. Things are starting to slow down now though. I've been in Oregon visiting my sister, bro-in-law and darling nephew for two weeks; I have to leave tomorrow. :-(
You got way more of a life story for that nice greeting than you were bargaining for, I bet. Anyway, it's nice to have time to be back here again. :-)
Posted by: Bumble | June 23, 2006 at 07:04 PM
Bumble: We spent two weeks in Oregon at the end of June at the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport for our honeymoon (that was 19 years ago). Fun place and awesome food.
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 23, 2006 at 07:11 PM
Scott~ Looks lovely. We went to the coast on a couple of my previous trips out here, but our plans usually got squelched by the weather.
As for food, I've loved most of the restaurants they've taken me to out here. My one regret is that we haven't gotten any tasty Thai food; sis isn't big on Asian cuisine.
Posted by: Bumble | June 23, 2006 at 07:22 PM
B: I'll probably visit Seaside, OR, for my cousin's wedding in August. I've only driven through so I don't know what's there.
Posted by: ScottMGS | June 23, 2006 at 07:57 PM
Bumble, tell me next time you're visiting Portland. Ditch your sister one night and I'll set you up with some friends who will take you out to a place called Thai Llana for the best green curry you've ever had. I'm drooling just thinking about it.
Posted by: KDF | June 23, 2006 at 09:39 PM
Scott, that hotel looks like my kinda place. :)
Posted by: KDF | June 23, 2006 at 09:40 PM
KDF~ I'm not so big on the curry; I like the tame stuff. I've had a noodle dish at three different Thai places that meets with my approval. Rice noodles, broccoli, chicken, sometimes carrot. Stir-fried in a soy type sauce; level 1. I'm a spice wimp.
Posted by: Bumble | June 23, 2006 at 10:59 PM
Like Ramadan, they fast during the day and gorge at night.
Posted by: Kat C | June 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM
Kat - like 0prah, too.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 24, 2006 at 03:19 PM
Their INTENT was good.
(Just like Oprah's, Ha-Ha)
But their FLESH was weak.
(Just like Oprah's)
Someone said:
"The Devil make ME do it!"
And someone else said,
"It was the Yankees that made me do it!"
And I asked, DO WHAT?
Posted by: Kat C. | June 24, 2006 at 03:39 PM
they must obviously have awesome food. or maybe he is just a whiney little twerp! I AM THE RULER OF THE ... your dinner's here.... OH YUM, it's foie gras tonite.
Posted by: queensbee | June 24, 2006 at 04:50 PM
*sniff* Ghandi would have been proud.
Posted by: Geoff | June 25, 2006 at 08:50 AM
I guess we know about the quality of the food.
Saddam cannot skip more than a single meal.
Posted by: Ed Sharp | June 26, 2006 at 04:44 PM
Sounds like my latest fad diet.
Skip one meal and then gorge yourself.
Posted by: Ed Sharp | June 26, 2006 at 04:45 PM
I'm a couple of days late here, but *snork* at ScottMGS's "paper wraps rock" link!!
Posted by: Cat R. | June 26, 2006 at 10:14 PM