Alert: Iraqis need your help!

I think this email I recieved today counts as one of the many unforseen consequences of the invasion of Iraq:

"Good day my dear,How are you ? I hope you are fine.I am Alhaja Aisha Al Fahd, an Iraqi citizen. I got your contact email address in confidence through a reliable-help network when I was searching for a reliable person who can help me make this transaction a success. However, my inner consciousness assured me of your reliability and trustworthiness in this business transaction."

Uh oh...if you're even 1/2 as naive as I am, you can tell where this is going:

"I am presently residing in Basra Iraq and desperately in need of your urgent assistance and surport to move a huge sum of $120,000.000 ( One Hundred and Twenty Million, U.S Dollar) which is now in the security company. This money is legal and free from any local or international laws.Due to the current situation of things in our country Iraq, so my dear, I need to arrange quickly on how to move this money to you in your country or any other safer place for onward deposit in any bank account because, I dont want to lose the money in that company..."

Oh yes...it's the famous Nigerian money scam, transplanted to Iraq. Apparantly in addition to foreign jihadist sneaking into Iraq to carry out holy war, we have Nigerian spammers stealthily invading Iraq to teach Iraq's equivalent of the computer nerd how to rip off Americans of even more money then the billions we've already sent over there. And clever they are...notice how the spammer carefully mentions that he/she/it is residing in Basra, in the more peaceful southern region of Iraq, and not the turbulant Baghdad or Anbar province, where large money transactions almost certainly couldn't happen without getting some terrorist's attention. Anyway, I sure couldn't get behind getting rid of foreign terrorists, establishing democracy or even the good old stand by of taking their oil, but if it takes 500,000 red-blooded American soldiers to rid the world of Iraqi spam, I say send our boys in and let God sort 'em out!

Warning: "Terrist" Live Here

Blabbering idiot...or cunning prankster?

Terrorists, disguised as mild-mannered suburban families, are among us!

"Randy and Ronnell Vorick thought La Habra was about as far away as one could get from terrorism. They were wrong.For the last 2 1/2 weeks, the lives of the couple and their three children have been plunged into an unsettling routine of drivers shouting profanities, stopping to photograph their house and — most recently — spray-painting a slogan on their property.

In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London."

Genius. Pure genius. This is like a full scale version of the bit where you put somebody's # on the stall for a good time, or have a pizza delivered to your neighbor's house, only it appears to have ocurred out of sheer stupidity and not malice or amusement. The funniest part is somebody spray-painting "terrist" on their house(which only confirms that those who will spray paint someone's house at the behest of a cable news error are probably among the...ahem...lower intelligences of America.) Okay but seriously, when this guy was a former prosecutor did he really prosecute, or just post on a website the address of anybody who was on trial for, say, pedophilia? Imagine the trouble that would save, as an avenging public runs the pedophile out of town threatening his life and decorating his house with a giant spray-pained "pedafile"! John Loftus is not as dumb as he looks, I'm tellin' ya....

Belgians are mad crazy

Yep, he's doing what you think he's doing

In case you didn't know already, Europeans do things a little differently then we do. In our country, a pair of stone boobs gets a blue curtain. In Belgium, a stone statue of a little boy brazenly urinating in public garners something close to adoration. The Belgians, not having the good sense to be ashamed of this architectural and artistic travesty, even go so far as to create an incredibly cheesy website devoted to the "Mannekin-Pis", filled with animated urination, disturbing sound effects, and even the clever touch of little golden drops of uring dripping off of letters. Visit, and be sure to send animated e-card of the "lil' peer" to a loved one!

BTW, Credit (blame?) for this little post goes to the Hipster who brought this little wonder to my attention, and who apparantly delights at the sight of urinating little boys...

Spooky resemblance?

This is NOT Nat-Wu

I know it's going to seem like I'm picking on our beloved Nat-Wu, but really it's only a coincidence that I ran across this picture and thought "This is what a younger Nat-Wu would look like in an alternate universe." This is not actually what Nat-Wu looked like when he was younger, as I can attest to by virtue of the fact that as a result of our relation I was forced to see his ugly mug almost every day. Nay, this is more what Nat-Wu would look like if you could un-age him now about 10 years; a little smaller, a little younger, smiling about as much as he ever does for pictures where he's not wearing a beaver on his head. Indeed, the resemblance of this alternate reality young-Nat to this anonymous fella here is down right scary...

Your bill, Bitch Dog

Hilarious!

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/8_18odd.htm

...and the follow-up:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-818bitchdogbill,0,423441.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines

Write George a Letter

So there's this website where you can write letters to George Lucas and supposedly he'll read them. (Yeah right).

But here's the thing, you can't even read the (probably hilarius) fan letters without throwing down $12.95 for a book. Doesn't he have enough money already?

But the site does post a few letters like this gem:

My Cat Jumped By The Force

hello goerge lucas

can i be in your starwar movie. i want to be a jedi. i saw starwar and emipre strikes back and return jedi a lot of times and i now am a jedi myself. yesterday i looked at my cat a long time and it then jump. it jumped by the force.

i am from germany please call me.

adler nuhr

http://www.letterstogeorge.com/

Horse Package Plus?

Seattle man dies after sex with horse

Police say death was accidental, investigate farm on cruelty suspicions

Updated: 9:12 p.m. ET July 15, 2005

SEATTLE - A Seattle man died after engaging in anal sex with a horse at a farm suspected of being a gathering place for people seeking to have sex with livestock, police said Friday.

The horse involved in the incident was not harmed, and an autopsy of the unnamed man concluded that “the manner of death was accidental ... due to perforation of the colon,” a police spokesman said.

“The information that we have is that people would find this place via chat rooms on the Web,” said Sgt. John Urquhart of the King County Sheriff’s Department.

Although sex with animals is not illegal in Washington state, Urquhart said that investigators were looking into whether the farm, located in Enumclaw, 40 miles southeast of Seattle, allowed sex with smaller animals that resulted in animal cruelty, which is a crime.

“If you’re talking about sheep or goats, there could be some issues,” Urquhart said.

Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.

For HARDCORE gamers only

These guys take MMORPG way to seriously, aparently someone stabbed someone in the chest after they "stole a sword the two won together in Legend of Mir 3". The man actually went to the police to deal with it but there is no law in China about virtual property, so he broke in and stabbed him. Apparently in South Korea there is actually a part of the police that investigates on-line crimes like these, this is freakin ridic.

Here is a link to the article.

http://rpg.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=8419

Nat-Wu Found!

If the house is a rockin', don't bother knockin'...

Yet another sighting of the elusive Nat-Wu. You've seen him before eating cake, wearing back packs too small for his frame, and in general avoiding being photographed doing any sort of the things that completely normal people do when being photographed(like fake smiling, blinking, or holding up a placard of numbers.) However, it seems that Nat-Wu is now willing to resort to elaborate disguises and outrageous poses in an effort to avoid being recognized, including wearing a fake headress that appears to be composed of a dead beaver with tentacles. What incredible disguise will Nat-Wu sink to next? No one can answer this question, except that with time-and enough pictures like this one-even we at Horadrim may forget what the man behind the mask REALLY looks like.