fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you...
Meryl reports that Charles reports that someone else reports that Arafat may be dead.
I had a thought late last night, after I ran out of sheep to count. Arafat is dead. He's been dead. The Pallies are just playing a whole Weekend At Bernie's prank on us. They prop up Arafat's preserved body, stick him at a table next to his beloved box of baby wipes (which are scented, to keep the stench of death at bay) and Andrew McCarthy hides underneath those robes and waves the limbs of the corpse around.
Well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's true. Dancing on the grave of the near-dead if not already dead? You bet.
Comments
Michele, lets go with the Den Beste rule of news, wait 48 hours for further confirmation. My miserable life would be just a big brighter if Arafat bought the farm. But lets not celebrate, yet.
Posted by: BigFire | October 8, 2003 06:41 PM
...drat, now I've got the "Bring out your dead" sketch from Monty Python and the Holy Grail running through my head.
Posted by: Patrick Chester | October 8, 2003 06:44 PM
[ren]oh, please pleeeeeeeeease.[/ren]
Posted by: redsugar | October 8, 2003 07:47 PM
Here's the translation of the relevant news from the Guysen Israël News web site:
(The disclaimer for all reports)
We chose to inform you very quickly, want to thus excuse syntax as well as the orthography of our dispatches. Indeed, we transmit them to you at the time of the urgencies, directly coming from our reporters themselves under extreme tension. Thank you for your understanding.
October 8, 2003
20:19 Arafat according to our advisors would be deceased following a cardiac faintness. News to take with the conditionel a hoax or an attempt at misinformation are not to exclude.
20:36 We do not have any more information on the state of "health '' of Arafat. The news of its death is still not confirmed.
Posted by: ScottC | October 8, 2003 09:38 PM
Sadly, it turned out to be nothing but rumors. The old ghoul is still with us.
Which reminds me of an old joke:
Arafat goes to a fortune teller and asks her "Can you tell me when I will die?"
The fortune teller gazes into her crystal ball and says to him "I can see that you will die on a Jewish holiday."
"But which Jewish holiday?" Arafat asks.
The fortune teller looks at him and says "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday."
Posted by: Shai | October 9, 2003 03:17 AM
Makes sense, Michele. I mean, has anybody seen Andrew McCarthy lately?
Posted by: Steve Gigl | October 9, 2003 08:32 AM