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city
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: Triumph for national security :-) |
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sorry, but I had to laugh...
Quote: Triumph for national security as President’s shampoo stolen
(archive article - Sunday, October 15, 2006)
TWO PEOPLE were arrested on Friday after they were caught trying to steal President Tassos Papadopoulos’ shampoo from his home.
The two cleaners, believed to be Sri Lankan, were caught attempting to walk out of President Papadopoulos’ home in Strakka by officers of the Presidential guard. The two Sri Lankans were led to a local police station nearby and quizzed by officers over why they wanted the President’s shampoo.
Charges were set to be brought against the two before it was eventually decided to let them off with a warning.
Politis newspaper, that uncovered the story, sarcastically described the story as “a triumph for national security” under a cartoon picture of the President in a bathtub with rubber ducks with a hand in the corner swiping a shampoo bottle from a shelf.
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=28454&archive=1
I would like to see the cartoon from Politis. :-) |
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brother
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes this is a very wierd one and they must be very disturbed sri lankens to want anything his blood stained hands have ever touched. |
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zan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| They nearly made a clean get away :roll: |
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cannedmoose
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The two are being conditioned as we speak ;) |
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zan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| cannedmoose wrote: The two are being conditioned as we speak ;) :lol: :lol: |
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thebrix
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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brother wrote: Yes this is a very wierd one and they must be very disturbed sri lankens to want anything his blood stained hands have ever touched.
Presumably bloodstained because he lost his Head and Shoulders ;) |
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cannedmoose
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:44 am Post subject: |
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But don't you think TPap uses
:lol: |
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Khan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:18 am Post subject: |
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When a UN peace plan is just not enough! |
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De_La_Soul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Quote: Yes this is a very wierd one and they must be very disturbed sri lankens to want anything his blood stained hands have ever touched
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Birkibrisli
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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I think the Sri Lankans were Turkish spies.
It wasn't shampoo in that bottle but the Akritas Plan Papadopoulos was trying to whitewash! :) |
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Kifeas
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Location: Location: Pafos-Cyprus, since 1974 ethnic cleansing. Originally, Lapithos, northern occupied Cyprus.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| It was revealed that a virus had changed the date in "Politis" newspaper's computer system, and had made it appear as March 31 2006. Consequently, one of the "journalists" in that paper assumed that the following day was going to be the 1st of April (fools day,) and decided to run a little story, which apparently was also picked up and carried forward by its sister newspaper the "Cyprus Mail." Cyprus mail's computers had no such problem with the date, and although they realized immediately that it was an accidental joke, suitable for another date of the calendar, they decided to hide behind "Politi's" misfortune and also run the "news story" themselves, since it suited their anti-Papadopoulos defamation campaign. |
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cypezokyli
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for the info kifeas...
but you have to admit, that as a fools day joke it has worked pretty well. look at the creativity it has caused in this thread....and a number of smiles :) |
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city
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Kifeas wrote: It was revealed that a virus had changed the date in "Politis" newspaper's computer system, and had made it appear as March 31 2006. Consequently, one of the "journalists" in that paper assumed that the following day was going to be the 1st of April (fools day,) .....
sounds a bit weird to me, someone not even knowing which month of the year we are in ..... :?
To me it rather sounds as your story is the joke. |
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brother
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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city wrote: Kifeas wrote: It was revealed that a virus had changed the date in "Politis" newspaper's computer system, and had made it appear as March 31 2006. Consequently, one of the "journalists" in that paper assumed that the following day was going to be the 1st of April (fools day,) .....
sounds a bit weird to me, someone not even knowing which month of the year we are in ..... :?
To me it rather sounds as your story is the joke.
Agreed. :wink: |
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