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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
One dead, three injured in Rafah tunnel collapse
2008-12-28
At least one Palestinian was dead and three others were injured in a tunnel collapse on Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, medical sources told Ma'an.
Put in another workmans comp claim to Mutual of Gaza ...
The Ministry of Health's Dr Mu'aweyah Hassanein told Ma'an that paramedics have not yet managed to recover the body of 23-year-old Walid Khaled Al-Shorbagy, who was killed in the collapse.
Al-Shorbagy? What kind of Paleo name is that?
I find it delightfully euphonious, a valuable enrichment of the language. Now we can say not only "deader than Tut" and "deader than a rock," but also "deader than Shorbagy."
Posted by:Fred

#2  OK, folks, this was a difficult news item to commemorate in a limerick, but here goes, *ahem*:

There once was a man named Shorbagy
Who found tunneling a bit of a draggy
He found himself deep
Like a wolf-cornered sheep
With his guts spread around all zig-zaggy
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2008-12-28 14:04  

#1  At least they don't have to dig a hole and bury him. Allan's already done that. Allan is great.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2008-12-28 09:29  

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