This is just weird: South Park creators given signed photo of Saddam Hussein

During his captivity, US marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan. He was also regularly depicted in a similar manner during the TV series.

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Stone, 37, said both he and Parker, 39, were most proud of the signed Saddam photo, given to them by the US Army's 4th Infantry Division.

He said: "We're very proud of our signed Saddam picture and what it means. Its one of our biggest highlights.

"I have it on pretty good information from the marines on detail in Iraq that they showed Saddam the movie.

"Over and over again – which is a pretty funny thought.

"That's really adding insult to injury."

Wow, the cardboard oven is awesome. So simple, and yet...

Now I have to go see what happens in the Belgian train station. (ETA: very fun. I think I'd seen it before, and yet just as much fun this time!)

GI Joe's new Squad Leader resembles my furry dictator at home.

I just distracted myself by reading the whole story of a 48 Hours Mystery episode I actually watched.

I'm watching one right now!

Also waiting for Kripkat to stop running around like crazy so he can refuse his medicine.

I was excited to find some new true crime channel on the cable (ID?) since that seems to be my latest obsession...

Last night, I was having sleeping problems (turned the light off at 12:10, didn't fall asleep until after 3:00, woke up at 5:40 to be at work by 7:00--gronk). In the middle of my tossing and turning, I could hear the cat eating in the kitchen (she likes to knock the kibble onto the floor and then eat it), and then I heard her get out of the litter box and start tearing around the apartment. A few minutes later, the smell from the litter box (across the hall in the bathroom) wafted into the bedroom. No wonder she had the crazies--she must have felt 20 pounds lighter with the prodigious dump she had. (She's terrible about kicking over her litter; she'll kick it over her pee, but not her smelly poo!)

I watch ID all day long. It is my favorite channel. I am particularly enjoying FBI Files more than when it used to air.

Do cats have aborted hairball pukes? Immanuel just stopped and sort of jerkily wheezed twice, and then went back to chasing. I hope he didn't eat a feather or the mouse he had in his mouth all night.

Yes. Devi sometimes makes herself gag.

I think this is an ad for a home of the vintage I'm buying, in the hood: [link] Can't really tell, but the layout and pictures look right.

Wow! That is so cool! Where did you find it?! I wonder if there's something similar out there for my house?

Yeah, the pirates in the time the classic pirate stories were set were not nice guys either. I mean if they took a ship, mostly everybody on board from captain to ordinary sailor got killed, possibly with torture for the entertainment value. Or sold as slaves. Sometimes captains and and people with rich relatives were taken captive and ransomed, but that was a hell of a lot of trouble, so not the normal course of things. Occasionally someone on a captured ship might be recruited as a pirate. But again rare, and even when it happened, that would would one or two in a crew of dozens. Nothing romantic or lovable about real pirates.