To: GSlob
"He was damn right. The shortage of toilet paper is now safely in the past."
C'mon, GSlob. Using Crappy book for toilet paper is too traditional and too obvious -:))) How about propaganda in Islamic world that Jihad no longer needed to get to paradise -:))? Sounds crazy, but who knows ? -:)))
To: sergey1973
"Too traditional" - tradition has its uses. "Too obvious" - asking semiliterates to visualize 5-dimensional hypercubes or something else equally exotic surely is a waste of time and exercise in failure. Thus it has to be obvious, given the intended audience of the book. [There was an old joke centering on how the aborigines catch ostriches. It pertains.]
As for "propaganda" uses - would not do. In the old USSR there was a magazine "Korea", put out by North Korean embassy. Maybe you have seen it. It was choke full of exorbitant praise of "Great Leader", "the possessor of the Paektusan spirit" [??- must be a rare cognac, I suppose] - well, if Allah has 99 names, old Kim must have had at least 200. They, too, hoped that it would have propaganda use, but the only use it ever had was a fodder for laughter. I would even bet that this very laughter was a well suppressed first reaction in North Korea proper. And pray tell me, what makes you think that the fate of this garbage would be any different?
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06/30/2006 9:58:13 AM PDT by
GSlob
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