cyberdad wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Too bad that ...they killed Ben Laden. They shoulda kept him alive, and given him a sex change operation, and then forced him to live the rest of life as a woman under the Taliban regime!!
Would that just make him more popular with the Talis?
I guess that I didnt tell the joke right. I apologize. Let me supply the context, and missing parts of the set up.
My sis passed on the joke in an Email WAY back in 2002. Shortly after 9-11, but a long time before the Navy Seals actually greased Ben Ladin.
The gist of the joke was that "even if they could catch Ben Ladin, they wouldnt know what to do with him". They cant keep him in prison forever. And if they killed him it would just 'make him a martyr'. So they would have no choice but to ...give him a sex change operation and force him.... .
You probably get it now, but just to be super clear:
The joke being that 'killing him would make him a martyr, ergo we have to do something else to him. So lets do something preposterously silly to him...but that would cause him to be a victim of his own allies.
Get it?