Friday, July 13

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We Don't Need No Stinking Badgers!

Sure, they deny it, but where there's smoke, there's badgers:
The Iraqi port city of Basra, already prey to a nasty turf war between rival militia factions, has now been gripped by a new fear -- a giant badger stalking the streets by night.

British army spokesman Major David Gell said the animals were thought to be a kind of honey badger -- melivora capensis -- which can be fierce but are not usually dangerous to humans unless provoked. 

"We have not released giant badgers in Basra," he said, "and nor have we been collecting eggs and releasing serpents into the Shatt al-Arab river."
That's as may be - but what about the mushrooms, eh?  What about the mushrooms?

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1 Downing street re-affirmed that the British Army has not deployed any of its Giant Assualt Badger Systems (G.A.B.S.) to the middle east stating that they were completely unfit for the type of warfare being encountered.  Meanwhile in Washington Senator Roberts (R-Kansas) called for an increase in funding for US rodent based weapon systems amid reports that Moscow has sold Tehran its latest anti rodent weapons, the S-90 Rat Trap cannon and the SA-19 Egg Sucker anti rodent missile.

Posted by: Raging Tachikoma at Friday, July 13 2007 07:44 AM (2zzOp)

2 I know you; you posted this just so you could use that title. You can't fool me.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Friday, July 13 2007 04:42 PM (+rSRq)

3 President Bush has now requested an additional Congress appropriations bill to pay for more troops to contain the badger threat. He says that while there were badgers in Iraq, "with hard work we can neutralize the badger threat". 

Posted by: Dr. Strangelove at Thursday, July 19 2007 10:00 PM (/QSN6)

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