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(BBC) Interesting Winning team in Somali geography bee gets a rifle, two grenades, a landmine and office supplies woth $1000. Who wants to enter a Fark team for next year?   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line 59
More: Interesting, Somali, Mogadishu, port cities, Islamists, central government, Allah, Ramadan, runner-up  
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calbert 2009-10-17 02:49:04 PM  
woth?

 
mitchcumstein1 [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 02:50:25 PM  
That's a lot of pins.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 02:52:29 PM  
what kind of office supplies?

 
Knucklepopper [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 02:57:16 PM  
Geography? We'd lose.

 
Ninja Wicked 2009-10-17 02:57:55 PM  
Bucky Katt: what kind of office supplies?

Rifles and grenades.

 
Githerax 2009-10-17 02:57:57 PM  
An armed society is a polite society.

 
xuanzhiyouxuan [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:01:40 PM  
LOL fta:""The reason the young men were rewarded with weapons is to encourage them to participate in the ongoing holy war against the enemies of Allah in Somalia,"

 
Somaticasual [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:01:45 PM  
Bucky Katt: what kind of office supplies?

Considering it's somalia - next of kin notifications?

 
Eyebleach [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:02:28 PM  
"But the runners-up did not go home empty-handed, taking away an AK-47 and bullets."

Ha! Losers get crap stuff.

 
UsikFark 2009-10-17 03:03:04 PM  
Bucky Katt: what kind of office supplies?

t2.gstatic.com

 
numbone 2009-10-17 03:03:28 PM  
Sample questions:

What is the middle name of Ammaduzi Kemuejedi's 14th wife?

How many pounds of explosives is a nine year old boy recommended to safely eight miles to the market?

How many nine year old boys did it take to satisfy Muhammad?

 
NakedApe 2009-10-17 03:05:38 PM  
The country last had a functioning central government in 1991.

There's something Somalia beats the US at. We only went eight years without one.

 
thebigfingerbang 2009-10-17 03:10:04 PM  
if i won an AK + ammo in a spelling bee, i think i'd nut my pants then have an aneurysm

 
jehovahs witness protection [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:13:29 PM  
I always wanted $1000 woth.
Subby almost the whole thing.

 
Gosling 2009-10-17 03:14:01 PM  
The most useful things you can have in Somalia.

Except for the office supplies.

 
jebusfreak [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:14:52 PM  
numbone: Sample questions:

What is the middle name of Ammaduzi Kemuejedi's 14th wife?

How many pounds of explosives is a nine year old boy recommended to safely eight miles to the market?

How many nine year old boys did it take to satisfy Muhammad?


I think you accidentally your sentence.

 
Clarence Potter 2009-10-17 03:17:18 PM  
Gosling: The most useful things you can have in Somalia.

Except for the office supplies.


Unless they're requisition forms, maybe?

jebusfreak: I think you accidentally your sentence.

I think he accidentally his brain.

 
KingKauff 2009-10-17 03:19:36 PM  
As long as it's not a spelling bee with subby, I'm in

 
The English Major [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:23:13 PM  
I wonder if subby lives in Reading.

 
Hau Ruck [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:30:37 PM  
Until their bobsledding team is woth anything, we're wasting our time.

 
gator249 2009-10-17 03:32:38 PM  
Misspelling a word in a story about a spelling bee: pirecless! I mean priceless. Damn.

 
farkinawsome 2009-10-17 03:33:37 PM  
numbone: How many nine year old boys did it take to satisfy Muhammad?

LOL

 
noobalicious 2009-10-17 03:36:38 PM  
gator249: Misspelling a word in a story about a spelling bee: pirecless! I mean priceless. Damn.

Well, if they ever have a Reading Comprehension Bee, we can count on you to NOT be in the top ten. Ya know, considering this was a GEOGRAPHY bee and all.

 
stiletto_the_wise [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:48:40 PM  
It seems like a libertarian paradise to me. None of those evil socialist "big government" regulations to get in the way of the success of all those bootstrappy small business owners. Just pure, unfettered freedom and capitalism, my friend.

 
Sue Dunham 2009-10-17 03:51:30 PM  
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our . . . .

 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:52:07 PM  
I don't know. An angry kid with a rifle and hand grenades is a tough opponent.

I say let them weed themselves out for a while. Maybe enter the year after next.

 
beelzebubba76 2009-10-17 03:52:23 PM  
stiletto_the_wise: It seems like a libertarian paradise to me. None of those evil socialist "big government" regulations to get in the way of the success of all those bootstrappy small business owners. Just pure, unfettered freedom and capitalism, my friend.

I like strappy stilettos too ... woohooo.

 
Molavian [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-10-17 03:59:01 PM  
stiletto_the_wise: It seems like a libertarian paradise to me. None of those evil socialist "big government" regulations to get in the way of the success of all those bootstrappy small business owners. Just pure, unfettered freedom and capitalism, my friend.

It would be a great place to live if it weren't for all the blacks.

 
paj 2009-10-17 04:02:42 PM  
I won a geography bee in high-school so I'm really getting a kick...

/getting a gun in Somalia is like getting an STD in 18th century France.

 
skinink 2009-10-17 04:03:30 PM  

I thought second prize would be a set of steak knives.


cache.boston.com


 
squeez cheez 2009-10-17 04:04:05 PM  
Molavian: stiletto_the_wise: It seems like a libertarian paradise to me. None of those evil socialist "big government" regulations to get in the way of the success of all those bootstrappy small business owners. Just pure, unfettered freedom and capitalism, my friend.

It would be a great place to live if it weren't for all the blacks African-Americans.


FTFY

 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 04:06:09 PM  
skinink: I thought second prize would be a set of steak knives.

You win third prize. Clean out your desk.

 
misanthropologist 2009-10-17 04:16:18 PM  
jehovahs witness protection: I always wanted $1000 woth.
Subby almost the whole thing.


Damn. First greenlight in years (literally) and I messed up the headline.

Next time I preview first, submit second.

/worst part is, I'm a grammar/spelling nazi.

 
Russ1642 2009-10-17 04:16:22 PM  
Just don't put this woman on the team:

ottomann.files.wordpress.com

 
FredaDeStilleto [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 04:16:38 PM  
As long as I don't have to fly into the Somalia in a Black Hawk, I'm game.

 
Darth Macho 2009-10-17 04:24:38 PM  
Those are the gifts that keep on giving.

 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 04:33:31 PM  
FredaDeStilleto: As long as I don't have to fly into the Somalia in a Black Hawk, I'm game.

Is that worse than driving in in a HumVee?

 
smeag0l 2009-10-17 04:44:55 PM  
NRA Paradise

 
fusillade762 2009-10-17 05:08:15 PM  
A rifle, two grenades and a landmine? I think you get all that just for opening a checking account in Somalia.

 
Mouser 2009-10-17 05:20:25 PM  
The winners of a quiz organised by Somali Islamists have been given weapons and ammunition as prizes.

Prizes included AK-47 assault rifles, hand grenades and an anti-tank mine.

The quiz ran during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in the port city of Kismayo, and included questions about the Koran and Somali geography.


It's a sad state of affairs when we can no longer tell the difference between the BBC and the Onion. :(

 
vinn01 2009-10-17 05:22:16 PM  
They have no use for medals, plaques and trophies. Weapons are practical items in Somalia. This is like giving out tupperware in a housekeeping quiz show in suburban USA.

 
Cog [TotalFark] 2009-10-17 05:34:38 PM  
What's "woth?"

 
jdmac 2009-10-17 05:38:57 PM  
This seems to make sense. If you are trying to build an insurgency army based on religious dogma, you want the people who you arm to know the religious text that justifies barbaric activities and the location their leaders want them to destroy.

 
TheEtherBunny 2009-10-17 05:39:04 PM  
What are the office supplies for?

 
Martin The Mess 2009-10-17 05:57:43 PM  
I once came in third place in the US Geography Bee. I got a $10,000 college scholarship. So I'm getting a kick out of all these replies, etc.

/Study your math, kids
//Key to the universe

 
Inflatable Rhetoric 2009-10-17 06:05:15 PM  
Russ1642: Just don't put this woman on the team:

No, send her to me.

 
Inflatable Rhetoric 2009-10-17 06:06:18 PM  
The religion of peace.

That other religion of peace, besides the one we know.

 
Acharne 2009-10-17 06:07:10 PM  
If suby wints too submyt ah teem i wunder whut langooage theu think thuy speek in Somalia? Do he speek Somali?


/Yes that took some time to type.

 
SomeCallMeTim 2009-10-17 06:10:30 PM  
Little terrorists are so cute when they are that age

But they blow up so fast

 
beelzebubba76 2009-10-17 06:24:05 PM  
Inflatable Rhetoric: The religion of peace.

That other religion of peace, besides the one we know.


If someone starts a Religion of Piece (TM?), I'd be all for it ... an early convert, even.

 
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