caution: exploding heads

From the Irish Times breaking news RSS feed:

The United States said last night it had flown five Chinese Muslim men who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to resettle in Albania, declining to send them back to China because they might face persecution.

I really can't come up with a comment that does this story justice. I'll just sit here doing the stunned monkey routine.

repeat until the horse comes back to life

For the second time in a fortnight I've followed a link from one of the aggregator sites to a site where someone had a good idea for a comment-post-as-joke, and then a whole bunch of other people thought (wrongly) that they could improve on it by changing the wording. The Internet: one funny joke, followed by millions of people saying, "No, I heard it this way".

for the avoidance of doubt

This isn't me.

A tempting offer indeed

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(my emphasis, natch)