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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:23 AM
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I think this can only have come from Lynne Cheney
ISLAMABAD: The government is excising from the new English textbook for class XI a poem titled "The Leader" whose first alphabets of all its verses, put together in sequence as they occur, read President George W Bush.

The 20-verse poem, authored by an anonymous poet, spells out ideal qualities "the leader" has. "We have decided to delete the poem from the book, published by the National Book Foundation (NBF) and prescribed for the federal board students of intermediate," a visibly embarrassed official of the federal education ministry told The News. "It will be stretching the matter too far- to assert that the poem was inserted in the book deliberately to enumerate the qualities of the American president," he said.

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2005-daily/04-12-2005/main/main16.htm

The doggerel is included in the article, and it's laughably awful. I think people who have read Lynne Cheney's attempt at pornographic fiction will recognize the stilted style.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:35 AM
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1. You mean W hasn't gained God status in Islamabad?
The Bible Belt here certainly did. But I get a little laugh at them thinking W was in the plan to bring on Armageddon.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:43 AM
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2. Damn, I thought this was about lesbian literature....
:-(
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:28 AM
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3. Dunno, there's a lot of extremely unsophisticated stuff out there...
... courtesy of Pentagon-paid contractors charged with winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. When I read that one of the pieces given to a Baghdad newspaper included a verse from the GI Joe cartoon show theme song, I got an idea of the creativity of that bunch.... :P
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 06:37 AM
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4. you pegged it!
This is so bizarre!




Cher
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 07:29 AM
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5. Some freak'n teacher at my kid's school read it to the class. I was
furious, but kid said don't make a stink, so I just :puked: instead, which of course is against my nature.
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