NYT’s Prescription for Stupid

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   BooMan on November 19, 2007 at 1:01 am

   Iraq is the new Cuba:

   Three Iraqi footballers secretly left their team hotel in Australia hours after playing a weekend Olympic qualifying match and plan to seek asylum, an Iraqi football official said.

   Midfielder Ali Abbas, one of the heroes of Iraq’s stunning Asian Cup triumph in July, was among the three who planned to seek asylum in Australia, said Iraqi Football Association Assistant Secretary Tariq Ahmed.

   The other two players were identified as Ali Mansur and Ali Khadher. Assistant coach Sadi Toma had also gone missing with the three players, Ahmed said.

   “The players secretly took their passports at about 3am Australian time, a few hours before they were due to leave,” Ahmed told Reuters in Baghdad.

   Toma contacted team officials in Australia later on Sunday and told them the players would seek asylum.

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   pilgrim99 on November 19, 2007 at 5:19 am

   For some reason, I didn’t get my Sunday Times. Perhaps that was a good thing…

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     BooMan on November 19, 2007 at 4:39 pm

     I solved the crossword again this week.  They used to be hard.  Now I solve them about 90% of the time.

     The trick this week was hard at first: World Pay.

     So, they slipped the ‘l’.  

     To say the least because to slay the east.
     Place your bets became Pace your belts.
     Fee Splitters became flee spitters.
     Study Hall became Studly Hal.
     Cold Cuts became Cod Cults.
     Have the gall became Halve the Gal.
     Potted Plants became Plotted Pants.  
     Sleeping Sickness became Seeping Slickness.
     Coat of Many Colors became Coat of Manly Coors.  

     Once I had the trick all I needed to figure out was the name of a town in Nebraska.  Turned out to be Ogallala.