The
Osama Tapes
Selections
from Osama bin Laden's recent videotape, translated from Arabic into English,
English to Swahili, Swahili to Chinese, and from Chinese back into English.


Osama
enters...
Man
in beard: Salutations and grommet sacks to all who taking relaxed positions
of settlers in kugel.
Osama:
A pumpkin and a gefilte fish were on their way to heaven when they were
stopped by six dwarves who demanded they hand over their ethnicity, pray
zallah.
Other
Man in Beard: Braise challah, and the one with the hangnail shall be smitten
till he isn't.
Man
in beard: And so it was said, freeze Walla.
Other
Man in Beard: And again, prey solo.
Omar:
But there was the thing, with the noise and the pushing,
Osama:
It is said that when a camel walks into a bar, what does the bartender
say?
Omar.
Such a long face, Troy Donahue.
Man
in Beard: And the asking how you do that, with the hands and stuff, the
fornicators of trepidation take delight in.
Osama:
But then with the fooling and the thing with the stuff on top, whose youth
was blooming with chariots? When the penis of a camel can pass through
the eye of a needle, it's time for that needle to wink, pray Zoltar.
Man
in Beard: Play Mozart, it was so, and was so again.
Omar:
Well well, ingrate salad, poodle in sanctuary. Nothing to me.
Osama:
Twas ever thus, pureed llama, Ramadan doobie clusters in the raging infestation
of your nicotine patch.
Man
in Beard: And boy was it fun. You could fondle weathering hamstrings whenever
silent partner conniption fit involved sanctuary.
Osama:
Sanctuary. Sanctuary much.
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