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“Do you mind not interrupting just because a lady’s doing the talking? You pipe down, mister, I prefer to deal with your punk rocker here. It might teach you not to be such a male chauvinist worm in the future,”
That mascara would come to a boil if she didn’t watch out.
And what on earth makes you think a man like him wouldn’t listen to Whitney Houston? Because he looks like a skinhead? You don’t have to have hair to listen to pop, surely?”
A devoted heavy metal freak was hardly likely to go soppy over Whitney Houston’s cuddly vibrato.
Perhaps she was trying to sing along to Whitney Houston. Have you ever been to a market and heard the camels bellowing all at once, Carl?”
Was there anything Assad couldn’t work his damned camels into?
You know, when a camel farts there can be two reasons.”
Oh God, not those effing camels again.
“Because beating up your wife is not half as much fun as beating up your friends, that’s why.”
But, Carl, he who prods the camel’s ass may find himself with a hoof in the balls. This is how it is.”
When they were done here they would have to have a word with her about the inappropriateness of calling up murder suspects wanted by Interpol and making appointments to meet.
maybe he was more than just a horny idiot with a penchant for loopy women with kohl around their eyes.
“My words exactly, Carl. Like minds think greatly.”
If he added up how many camels Assad had driveled on about, the Sahara wouldn’t have room for them all.
“You see, Carl, if only we stick to our true nature we will never get sand in our eyes.”
“Thanks for the advice. The fact of the matter, however, is th...
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It helps get them talking, you know? In the end they blurt it out, log, stick, and barrel.” “Lock, stock, and barrel, Assad.
What came to the desert first, the camel or the dromedary? Do you understand, Carl?” “Here we say the chicken or the egg, Assad.
When the world collapses into tiny pieces, one is able to comprehend the individual elements of the catastrophe as it unfolds.
