GEORGE LEARNS ALL. ABOUT PERIODS

8 year old Monica Gonzales demonstrates to Mr. Bush that the end of the page is not necessarily the end of the sentence


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The person or persons arrested on suspicion of sabotaging President Bush's speeches by putting all the punctuation in the wrong places could "almost definitely" be a member of Saddam's crack Al Quaida Republican Guard, Secretary of State Warren A Babylon claimed today. The suspect was humanely blindfolded, and taken to Political Prisoner World, Disneyland, Florida where he is being held in an orange boiler suit until further notice.

"Contrary to so-called popular opinion", continued Mr. Babylon, " Mr. Bush is an excellent oral spokesmansperson. But let's face it, we are up against the kind of underhand, unamerican cheating which is typical of Saddam's evil Al Quaida-style insurgent. Remember, these people are quite unaccustomed to civilised rules of engagement, and I appeal to the UN to condemn this flagrant breach of the Geneva Convention."

When asked which breaches of the Convention he was referring to, he had this to say; "Unfortunately, for security reasons, the copy we had has gone through the shredding machine, but from memory, the relevant passage states quite categorically that any attempt at making the President of the opposing side look stupid, whether by putting misleading punctuation into his autocue, or by any other means is strictly. Forbidden."
When asked by a journalist from the BBC to clarify his earlier statement that collateral damage by US troops would be "Awesome, wicked, and one hell of an ass-kicking doozy" he replied:-
"Collateral? I thought you said Collossal. This is war, and in the swirling sandstorms which have been deliberately whipped up by Saddam's Elite Special Effects Division, all words beginning with C begin to look remarkably similar. Some may even have been disguised as other words, in direct cuntravention of the Geneva Canneloni"

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