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2005-03-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-17 12:43:19 AM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sounds like a fun Holiday. I've always enjoyed throwing firecrackers at girls.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-17 9:51:33 AM|| 2005-03-17 9:51:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course I always hated it when the girls lit them and threw them back.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-17 9:52:56 AM|| 2005-03-17 9:52:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ROFL!!!

Ship, you rock, bro!

Posted by .com 2005-03-17 10:04:32 AM|| 2005-03-17 10:04:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We used to do something like this in my reenactment company. It involved imbibing the beverage of your choice and then walking barefoot across the campfire. Theirs sounds more fun, though. Wasn't Freddy Mercury Zoroastrian?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-03-17 2:27:13 PM|| 2005-03-17 2:27:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 ass-oriented maybe, but zoroastrian? Don't think so...

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-17 2:29:41 PM|| 2005-03-17 2:29:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5th 1946 in Zanzibar, to parents Bomi & Jer Bulsara. Freddie moved to India in 1947. He attended boarding school in Panchgani, just outside Bombay. Whilst there he began his piano lessons, reaching Grade 4 in practical and theory. The family, with the addition now of younger sister Kashmira, moved to England in 1963.
Mercury was born Farrokh Pluto Bulsara in Stone Townor Mji Mkongwe, in Swahili, is the old part of the capital of the island of Zanzibar, a part of Tanzania. To parents Bomi and Jer Bulsara. He had a sister, Kashmira Bulsara-Cooke. His parents were Parsis a person from Pars (the middle-Persian word for Fars), a region now within the geographical boundaries of Iran, and is roughly the original homeland of the Persian people. The word Persia itself derives from Persis, the Greek form of Pars. A member of the close-knit Zoroastrian community from/in India, and are descendants of people who, in the 8th century, emigrated to India from Persia to escape religious persecution.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Freddy+Mercury

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-03-17 3:57:13 PM|| 2005-03-17 3:57:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I stand rebuked and corrected

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-17 8:34:09 PM|| 2005-03-17 8:34:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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