BAT COUNTRY

Probably bad taste, but the only immediate effect of the death of Osama Bin Laden is that all of a sudden hundreds of thousands of American men have rediscovered testicles.
Truly a great victory.
Yay.

Even better, several million Pakistanis, Gazans, and Dutch people have rediscovered acid-indigestion. And personally that works much better for me. Judging by some of the stuff I've read on the internet today half of the Netherlands is dyspeptic.
I'd offer them candy in celebration, but they'd probably spit.

Many Dutch are mourning, in solidarity with their brothers in Hamas.

Others are frankly cynical (a talent of the Dutch).

And there is much to be cynical about.

I've would've liked the body to go on display, just to make a spectacle of the man and still the doubts. Perhaps we could've embalmed him, like Lenin or Mao.
At least show the body. Possibly at the next World's Fair.
Auctioned it off, maybe.

But the best thing would have been to dump him in a pickling jar and send him to Las Vegas.



"WE CAN'T STOP HERE, THIS IS BAT COUNTRY!"

As the immortal Johnny Depp would've said outside Barstow, if he spoke Dutch, "wij kunnen hier niet stoppen, dit is vledermuis-land!"

The desert does things to you, gringo.

I've only been to Las Vegas once.
As you may imagine, someone who works in finance views the Vegas scene with trepidation and despair. We tend to spend our money with greater sense and miserliness than is common there.
But we do indeed like the displays of cultural artifacts.......
Like that Italian hotel, and the pyramid, and the fabulous surf'n turf buffet.
So, a well-pickled Osama would add to the attraction. Provided he was dressed, of course. Nobody wants to see a naked elderly terrorist while eating surf'n turf. It detracts from the experience.

If you want to see anybody naked while dining on steak and lobster, it's probably Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung, Andy Lau, or Maggie Cheung.
Or a reasonable proximile thereof, maybe Rima Fakih or George Clooney.
Rolled into one.

Perhaps even Haley Smith or Meg Griffin - both stellar hotties, unlike their dweebus brothers.

It all depends on your tastes, though. Whatever you wish to look at while eating dead moo-cow and sea-floor crustacean is your business.
But I'm fairly certain that elderly expired Arab is not it.


Personally, Irene Wan (温碧霞) is very high on my list - I especially remember her as the adorable wife of a eunuch in a movie I saw at the 大明星戲院 back in the late eighties. Yep, that's EXACTLY whom I want to scope out top to bottom while mouthing meat and sea-critter.
Yum.

I seem to have gotten off-tangent here.
Sorry.
It happens.
Blame Osama.
I guess a lot of people are doing that.


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