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"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
-Thomas Edison
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Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Watched Pearl Harbor at Sam’s. At 184 minutes duration, the movie is longer than the actual attack on Pearl Harbor (125 minutes). The late US Senator Hiram Johnson observed that “the first casualty when war comes is truth” The last casualty of war must be the movie.
8:00 pm
Saturday, July 20, 2002
St.George-Illawarra beat South Sydney 48-10 at the Sydney Football Stadium (about the size of a Perjil Island).
5:00 pm
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
SPAIN ERECTS RABAT-PROOF FENCE The confrontation between Spain and Morocco over a sprig of parsley in the Mediterranean intensified today when elite Spanish assault troops reoccupied the disputed islet of Perejil (parsley in Spanish) dislodged the six Moroccan troops guarding an observation post that had been established a week earlier after Moroccan frontier police had raised the country’s flag there and then proceeded to build a fence around the small rocky outpost (about the size of a football field).
12:00 pm
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