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Old Jan 4, 2006, 08:32 am   #25 (permalink) (top)
figure8
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Quote by: fushigi
Q: "How can we increase foreign development assistance by ten times in one year?"
A: "Attack the U.S., then rake in the reconstruction money."
There was actually a 1959 Peter Sellers film called "The Mouse That Roared" about a fictional European principality which declared war on the US and sent a tiny invasion force (armed with longbows!) to New York, hoping to lose the war and claim American aid so as to increase foreign investment in their country!

The old jokes are the best, eh?


One day I shall have an amusing/intellectual/provocative signature quote, but it is not this day.

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