Bin Ladin Dolls...

[headscratcher4]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=721&e=7&u=/ap/20031126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_bin_laden_dolls

Strange story: Bin Ladin and Arafat "dolls" confiscated by Israel.

I find it interesting becasue, given Bin Ladin's claimed fundamentalism, one would have thought that a "doll" was a graven image and an affence to Allah. I mean, didn't the Taliban (presumably influenced by Al Qeda) blow up the Afghan Buddahs?

Oh well, consistency in religion is the hob-gobblin of little minds...(btw, what is a hob-gobblin?).

[zakur]

Originally posted by headscratcher4
Oh well, consistency in religion is the hob-gobblin of little minds...(btw, what is a hob-gobblin?). hob·gob·lin
n.
1. An ugly, mischievous elf or goblin.
2. An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment; a bugbear: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

[Frank Newgent]

Originally posted by headscratcher4
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=721&e=7&u=/ap/20031126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_bin_laden_dolls

Strange story: Bin Ladin and Arafat "dolls" confiscated by Israel.

I find it interesting becasue, given Bin Ladin's claimed fundamentalism, one would have thought that a "doll" was a graven image and an affence to Allah. I mean, didn't the Taliban (presumably influenced by Al Qeda) blow up the Afghan Buddahs?

Oh well, consistency in religion is the hob-gobblin of little minds...(btw, what is a hob-gobblin?).
\Hob"gob`lin\, n. [See 2d Hob, and Goblin.] A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow.

But who's Robin Goodfellow?


Still my favorite bin Laden consumer product...

http://chicagobiker.com/binladencakes.htm

"I got a really sweet deal on these framed posters of an American eagle crying in front of the Stars and Stripes... 25 cents each from this distributor in Ohio who needed to unload them fast," Kloster said. "I think I'll combine the Osama cakes with the posters as sort of a commemorative 'God Bless America' war-souvenir package."

[headscratcher4]

A rummor should be started that profits being made from all of the kitch, patriotic crap...posters like the above, Saddam and Bush Team card decks, Bush Action figures, etc...are secretly being controlled by Al Qeda and secretly being funnelled into anti-American terrorism. It is a plan so nefarious that only Boris Baddenoff could come up with it....

[Frank Newgent]

Originally posted by headscratcher4
A rummor should be started that profits being made from all of the kitch, patriotic crap...posters like the above, Saddam and Bush Team card decks, Bush Action figures, etc...are secretly being controlled by Al Qeda and secretly being funnelled into anti-American terrorism. It is a plan so nefarious that only Boris Baddenoff could come up with it....
http://sites.inka.de/~W2556/wofat2.jpg

How about a nice little game of solitaire?

[wollery]

Originally posted by Frank Newgent

\Hob"gob`lin\, n. [See 2d Hob, and Goblin.] A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow.

But who's Robin Goodfellow?
Puck, a spirit of mischeif from English folklore. See this page about puck (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4198/puckages.html)
As featured in `A Midsumer Nights Dream' by old Billy Waggledagger.