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Thursday, August 07, 2003
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT FUNNY!"
On the pattern of Unilevers' successful rebranding of margarine as "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" I propose rebranding the following political parties with new names that more accurately reflect what they really are.
-Sein Fein becomes "I Can't Believe It's Not The IRA!".
-The Australian Labor Party becomes "I Can't Believe It's Not The Liberal Party!".
-The Australian Liberal Party becomes "I Can't Believe It's Not The Labor Party!".
-The Lebanese Phalange Party becomes "I Can't Believe It's Not Tashnak!" (no offence or disrespect intended but an Armenian heading the Phalange is like a Korean heading Sein Fein!).
-The American Republican Party becomes "I Can't Believe It's Not The Israeli Likud Party!".
-The American Democrats become "I Can't Believe Its Not The Israeli Labor Party!".
-The Israeli Labour and Likud partys become "I Can't Believe It's Not The Nazi Party!".
-The PLO becomes "I Can't Believe It's Not Hamas ( Islamic Jihad,etc )!".
P.S : On the pattern of Britains' Liberal Democrats the Australian Democrats become the Liberal Democrats because that is literaly what they are - the yuppie wing of the Liberal Party ( "they looked from Young Liberal to Democrat and couldn't tell the difference anymore" ).
11:55 am
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