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Giant Rabbits and Double Rainbows: The 10 Most Insane Delusions of Kim Jong-il
Gawker ^ | December 18, 2011 | Seth Abramovitch

Posted on 12/19/2011 12:34:25 PM PST by lbryce

With the death of Kim Jong-il, the world loses one of the greatest self-aggrandizing fantasists of all time. Here are ten of the craziest Jong-il stories floating out there:

1. North Korean schools teach children that Jong-il's birth was "supernatural." He was born in a log cabin inside a secret base on the sacred Mt. Paekdu, the story goes, and his arrival was accompanied by the apparition of a new star. The seasons then spontaneously changed from winter to spring, and a double-rainbow appeared, followed by a talking iceberg. (Western accounts say he was born in a guerrilla camp in Russia.) 2. In 2006, Jong-il learned that a man in Germany breeds giant rabbits. He found them delightful and decided they were the key to solving North Korea's widespread hunger problem:

So Kim gets in touch with 68-year-old Karl Szmolinsky of Berlin, the world's foremost breeder of giant rabbits, and says he wants Szmolinsky to come to Pyongyang and set up a farm to breed these rabbits. For Kim believes that the meat yielded by these rabbits will end his people's starvation. [...]

Undeterred, Kim pays for 12 rabbits, at a cost of about $115 each. He tells Szmolinsky that the rabbits will be kept at a petting zoo in Pyongyang and, in a few months, Szmolinsky will be flown in to help really set up a farm for breeding.

In February of 2007, about five or six months later, Szmolinsky gets a call from a North Korean official canceling that trip. Why? Because, Szmolinsky believes, Kim couldn't resist... and ate the giant rabbits to celebrate his birthday.

3. State textbooks claim Jong-il does not produce urine or feces

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; kimjingil; kimjongil; northkorea; pyongyang; waronterror
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To: KarlInOhio

My cousin use to have a bunny that big on his farm in Pennsylvania (two bunnys actually), and one thing that struck me was how paranoid they were. As if they knew they were potential food, more paranoid than even ferrets. I mean look at the bunny in that pic, it looks like he is saying “Okaaaay....I’ll let you look at meee. but puh-leeease just don’t eat meeee!” Sort of how citizens feel about the IRS. Oh yeah and you get the Kangaroo connection when you see them but get freaked how they ever got to Austrailia


21 posted on 12/19/2011 1:04:32 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Nancy Pelosi - The #1 reason why we need a Constitutional amendment for Congressional drug testing.)
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To: apillar
I think quite a few liberals would believe this list if you claimed it was about Obama...

I wonder why it took so long to get the astroturf out on the streets wailing over his death. Obama takes his own on the buses with him.

22 posted on 12/19/2011 1:11:49 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: lbryce

Actually, now, I will give him his #3 claim.


23 posted on 12/19/2011 1:25:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Bit off topic but I have a question.

If I were to send one of those rabbits to Jimmy Carter, causing him to run in the night screaming like a weenie, splattering himself against a big Georgia pine tree like a June bug on your windshield, what if anything could I be charged with?

24 posted on 12/19/2011 1:51:25 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

I wouldn’t say it in polite company but the English have a a word for it beginning with “B” and ending in “ery”


25 posted on 12/19/2011 2:05:03 PM PST by SkyDancer ("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
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To: lbryce

I once dated a lady who proudly proclaimed that her dog never pooped. As evidence, she stated there was never any dog turds lying around the yard. Then one day, while her and I watched, the dog did its thing and then promptly consumed the evidence. Wonder if that’s how he does it.


26 posted on 12/19/2011 2:16:40 PM PST by farmguy
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Re: 3. State textbooks claim Jong-il does not produce urine or feces

Whoop-dee-doo! I don't either but occasionally I have... to drain some liberal media slime juice I've picked up wading through CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News and Shep-pa-phard Smyth while channel surfing--

27 posted on 12/19/2011 2:45:10 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Rinnwald
As it was, he went from being a middle-rank party member to a night watchman for the rest of his life.

That probably saved his life, actually. Being a "middle-rank party member" around Stalin wasn't exactly safe.

It isn't in America, either.

28 posted on 12/19/2011 4:21:35 PM PST by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: Talisker

He was a middle rank party member in Yugoslavia. He sided with Stalin during Tito’s breakaway in the early fifties.

He bristled when I asked him why he was for Stalin. He said he was not for Stalin, but for greater unity with the Russian people.


29 posted on 12/20/2011 6:53:01 AM PST by Rinnwald
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