January-12th-2006, 11:03 AM
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At least the tragedy wasn't in the name of something stupid
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January-12th-2006, 12:30 PM
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Columnated ruins domino
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When the hell are they going to ban luggage from Mecca??? I mean, you're on a goddamned hajj, for chrissakes, you can't get by with a backpack?
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January-12th-2006, 12:49 PM
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The same thing happens every fricking year. I see that the government had made some improvements, but it obviously needs to go back to the drawing board. Lord knows that Saudi Arabia is wealthy enough to beef up the infrastructure and the crowd control adequately.
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January-12th-2006, 01:20 PM
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You might want to quit throwing rocks at the devil, anytime you see hundreds of bodies lying around and thousands injured. That's a little rule I go by. Hundreds of bodies? Thousands injured? Slip the rock back in your pocket and back away.
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January-12th-2006, 01:22 PM
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De harder dey come...
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Allah Akhbar! Being trampled is a small price to pay to make sure you're on time for the stoning, isn't it?
Last edited by groover; January-12th-2006 at 01:22 PM.
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January-12th-2006, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Monte Smith
You might want to quit throwing rocks at the devil, anytime you see hundreds of bodies lying around and thousands injured. That's a little rule I go by. Hundreds of bodies? Thousands injured? Slip the rock back in your pocket and back away.
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In such a situation, it's often impossible to back away. I've nearly been trampled in crowds myself.
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January-12th-2006, 01:33 PM
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I know. Which is why only numbnutzes get themselves into crowds like that.
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January-12th-2006, 01:44 PM
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De harder dey come...
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I'm sure you go right to Muslim heaven if you get trampled in a Hajj crowd at Mecca, and get your seventy virgins and all that. You folks just don't have enough faith in Allah. Infidels!
Last edited by groover; January-12th-2006 at 01:45 PM.
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January-12th-2006, 01:48 PM
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holier than thou
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Originally Posted by groover
I'm sure you go right to Muslim heaven if you get trampled in a Hajj crowd at Mecca, and get your seventy virgins and all that. You folks just don't have enough faith in Allah. Infidels!
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I know somebody who's going to hell! 
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January-12th-2006, 02:00 PM
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Columnated ruins domino
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I don't actually mean this, nor want to disrespect the beliefs and rituals of my Muslim brothers, but I can't help but think of this:
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January-12th-2006, 02:40 PM
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with a twist
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Name a religion without lemmings.
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January-12th-2006, 02:44 PM
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Yet another religion-bashing thread. How pleased I am. 
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January-12th-2006, 02:49 PM
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Whew, I'm glad I decided not to be a muslim and to not go to Mecca.
Wonder who spooked the herd.
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January-12th-2006, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jazzbluescat
Whew, I'm glad I decided not to be a muslim and to not go to Mecca.
Wonder who spooked the herd.
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Why am I sensing an incredibly un-PC post from Monte is in the works?
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January-12th-2006, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott Dolan
Why am I sensing an incredibly un-PC post from Monte is in the works?
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"What's behind door #2" Monty?
[I haven't been around long enough to know the infamous posters.  ]
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January-12th-2006, 03:53 PM
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Were The Who or The Stones playing Mecca?
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January-12th-2006, 03:53 PM
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Hartsell Cash, 1924-2006
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Originally Posted by bluenoter
Yet another religion-bashing thread. How pleased I am.
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I'm stoked too!
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January-12th-2006, 04:13 PM
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Imagine All The People
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Originally Posted by groover
I'm sure you go right to Muslim heaven if you get trampled in a Hajj crowd at Mecca, and get your seventy virgins and all that. You folks just don't have enough faith in Allah. Infidels!
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Seventy Virgins?! I’m surprised it’s not forty, from Aramaic meaning many. You know, “It rained for forty days and forty nights”, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, Lent is forty days long , wandering the desert for forty days, and the ever popular Chicken with forty cloves of garlic. The number forty comes up a lot.
Seventy, Damn!
Doc Mandhur (Arabic for Vowed, consecrated to God)
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January-12th-2006, 04:42 PM
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x
Last edited by Coda; January-17th-2006 at 07:20 AM.
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January-12th-2006, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott Dolan
Why am I sensing an incredibly un-PC post from Monte is in the works?
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Please, I would have done it by now if I was going to use this senseless tragedy to make an obvious point about Those People.
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January-12th-2006, 04:55 PM
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Next year....
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[heaviest of sighs]
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January-12th-2006, 05:41 PM
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De harder dey come...
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Originally Posted by Coda
Now you know why that wife decided to blow herself up along with her husband in the wedding suicide attack a few months ago. I can hear her now.....There is no way you're going to get 70 Virgins, I'm coming along to keep you honest.
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That is a funny one, Coda. 
However, I think the women in Muslim heaven are mostly consigned to the kitchen. For them, it's probably not much better than Muslim hell.
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January-12th-2006, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Monte Smith
Please, I would have done it by now if I was going to use this senseless tragedy to make an obvious point about Those People.
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I knew you wouldn't disappoint.
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January-12th-2006, 06:10 PM
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Where's Albertson when you really need him?
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January-12th-2006, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by bluenoter
Yet another religion-bashing thread. How pleased I am.
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One, the same, religion can be had and/or interpreted by smart folks and dumbasses alike. It's not a slant on the religion, at least as far as I'm concerned.
Last edited by jazzbluescat; January-12th-2006 at 07:52 PM.
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