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To: LindyBill who wrote (361593)	4/28/2010 5:40:18 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794366

>>> A Taliban militant gets lost and is wandering around the desert looking for water. He finally arrives at a store run by a Jew and asks for water. The Jewish vendor tells him he doesn't have any water but can gladly sell him a tie. The Taliban . . . begins to curse and yell. The Jew, unmoved, offers the rude militant an idea: Beyond the hill, two miles down the road, there is a restaurant; they can sell you water. . . . An hour later the Taliban is back. He tells the merchant: "Your brother tells me I need a tie to get into the restaurant."<<< What's especially weird is if you examine the joke as a kind of Freudian slip. The original version of this joke was set in the Sahara where some thirsty guy came in from the desert. How the hell did the Taliban get involved in it? How did the Jews get involved with the Taliban? Is this an unconscious reference to "linkage"? is Gen. Jones hoping the Mossad tricks the Taliban? What?