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[Oracle]

I cannot believe I made a brilliant joke with the reference to the "Mars Bars" and no one has appreciated the significance to Saddam

Doesn't anyone read the papers around here

(Or am I the only one who retains useless facts in her head )

[SSBubbles]

I cannot believe I made a brilliant joke with the reference to the "Mars Bars" and no one has appreciated the significance to Saddam

Doesn't anyone read the papers around here

(Or am I the only one who retains useless facts in her head )

I obviously missed that reference! (Along with everyone else!)

[Oracle]

The other room was a kitchen. Beneath the sink, the troops found Mars bars and cans of Spam. On the floor nearby were boxes of rotting oranges.

Outside the hovel, the soldiers saw a rug on the ground, pulled it back, and found an 8-inch thick piece of Styrofoam covering a narrow hole that appeared to be 6 to 8 feet deep.

They heard noises from below.

They were about to execute a "clearing procedure" -- firing into the hole or dropping a grenade into it -- when someone saw upraised hands belonging to a bearded, bedraggled man. The man had a pistol but did not fire it.

When the soldiers assisted the man from the hole, he said, in English: "I am Saddam Hussein. I am the president of Iraq. I want to negotiate."

I suppose I could have said Spam .... but I didn't retain that in my little head .... selective preference