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2008-04-04 Iraq

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Posted by Glenmore 2008-04-04 08:22|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 A special grouper, eh? After trolling all day, they hooked him. Still, I think there's something fishy about this story. I mean, is it for reel? Who, or what was the bait?

OK, I'm finished now. (I feel so gillty.)

Posted by Mike 2008-04-04 08:31|| 2008-04-04 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Six years in the punitentiary!

[BANG!]

Next case!

Posted by Fred 2008-04-04 08:51|| 2008-04-04 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Heres hoping he will Serranid us in interrogation . That , or loose his Sole

Aaarghh , I'll stop too .. I know my Plaice

Posted by Chuckles Phineger9532 2008-04-04 08:58|| 2008-04-04 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I see you're singing the same tuna...

Posted by Fred 2008-04-04 09:13|| 2008-04-04 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Alright, so it's a swordfish, but you catch my driftnet, yes?

Posted by Seafarious 2008-04-04 09:21|| 2008-04-04 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 a case of 'squid pro quo'

Posted by Chuckles Phineger9532 2008-04-04 09:25|| 2008-04-04 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 We need to turn these over to the ISF and have them run the interrogations, then drumhead courts martial trial and execution for espionage.

Hang them and leave them for the crows to pick clean. About half a mile from the nearest Iranian border post.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-04 09:28|| 2008-04-04 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 OK, I'm finished now. (I feel so gillty.)

Abaloney!

Hang them and leave them for the crows to pick clean. About half a mile from the nearest Iranian border post.

No. Skin them alive in the public square, tack their hides up on the wall as a public warning and then send their flayed bodies to rot a half mile away from the Iranian border post.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-04 10:03|| 2008-04-04 10:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Put him on Iraqi TV.

Let him tell his story

about how he was told he is doing this all for Allah
about how he was told that Iraqi Shiites aren't hallal
about how the Iran National Guard recruits cannon fodder
about how the money flows

Posted by mhw 2008-04-04 10:32|| 2008-04-04 10:32|| Front Page Top

#10 That's not a Grouper. That's a Marlin!

Posted by Chief Running Gag">Chief Running Gag 2008-04-04 10:47|| 2008-04-04 10:47|| Front Page Top

#11 ironic that a Grouper was often known as a Jewfish, no?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-04 14:01|| 2008-04-04 14:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Just as long as it's not catch and release, I don't care what they do to him.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-04 14:34|| 2008-04-04 14:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Catch and release is OK, as long as it's the "Release of death".

By the way, I know you tune a car, but just how do you tuna fish?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-04 14:44|| 2008-04-04 14:44|| Front Page Top

#14 I think, Fred, we need a photograph of a grouper - one of the bug-eyed spotted kind, with the big pouty mouth. It would go so well for these stories, Putin-bashing, and Mookie. I'll do a little googling later this afternoon.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-04-04 14:57|| 2008-04-04 14:57|| Front Page Top

#15 As long as he remains a coralled grouper, it should be safe. ;)

Is this thread related to the Iranian "wet dream" thread a couple days ago?

Posted by Zebulon Unomolet6509 2008-04-04 15:09|| 2008-04-04 15:09|| Front Page Top

#16 Sounds fishy.

Posted by Icerigger 2008-04-04 15:29|| 2008-04-04 15:29|| Front Page Top

#17 So knock off all the fish jokes; if Jacques Couseau were alive today, he would be rolling over in his grave........

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-04 16:05|| 2008-04-04 16:05|| Front Page Top

#18 Floundering in his grave...

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-04 16:12|| 2008-04-04 16:12|| Front Page Top

#19

Posted by 3dc 2008-04-04 16:22|| 2008-04-04 16:22|| Front Page Top

#20 Walleye never saw so many crappie puns.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-04-04 19:35|| 2008-04-04 19:35|| Front Page Top

#21 3dc That's a grouper?? for sure? what are the stats?

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-04 20:00|| 2008-04-04 20:00|| Front Page Top

#22 no idea as to the stats - its a google photo...
Looks pretty much like other groupers.... just big
Sepia tone might make it easier to photoshop...

Posted by 3dc 2008-04-04 21:53|| 2008-04-04 21:53|| Front Page Top

#23 from the photos I've seen with stories/stats: 400-600 lbs

and probably 80 or more years old....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-04 21:56|| 2008-04-04 21:56|| Front Page Top

#24 "and probably 80 or more years old"

The picture or the fish, Frank? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-04 21:57|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-04 21:57|| Front Page Top

#25 :-) just the fish....groupers can grow very old... think a prettier Helen Thomas

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-04 22:03|| 2008-04-04 22:03|| Front Page Top

#26 Geez, Frank - that's not saying much. A mangy dog's boil-covered butt is prettier than Helen Thomas.

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