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Author Topic: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2287 times)

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Given Colonel Qaddafi’s noted flamboyance, the residences of the House of Qaddafi were not quite as grand as people might have supposed.

They lacked the faux grandeur of Saddam Hussein’s marbled palaces. There are no columns that bear the colonel’s initials, or fists cast to resemble his hands or river-fed moats with voracious carp.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/world/africa/28qaddafi.html?_r=1&hp


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Re: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2011, 01:53:48 am »

Apparently he also had access to the Army Arc ( just look at his military ).  If he had managed to weaponize the carp, he would never have been deposed by U.S. 
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Re: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2011, 04:43:17 am »

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river-fed moats with voracious carp.
Oh Armok, this IS actual quote from article. I am not for searching DF references like maniac, like some people here, but really... why this remark? Is there other "dangerous carp"-related memes having nothing to do with DF in the wild?
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Re: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2011, 06:28:02 am »

Wow, someone at the New York times must be a dorf.
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Re: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2011, 12:10:36 pm »

Here's a list of carp.

But that's hilarious.
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Re: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2011, 06:30:36 pm »

I think the real question is: Why can't WE cast fists* to resemble teh King's hands????

*Using real hands of course
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Re: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2011, 07:06:55 pm »

I think the real question is: Why can't WE cast fists* to resemble teh King's hands????

*Using real hands of course
That is what megaprojects are for.
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Re: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2011, 11:57:17 am »

Wow, someone at the New York times must be a dorf.

Well, there was that NY Times article on DF recently- I just checked, it's not the same author, but I wonder if DF is making its rounds in the offices there.

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Re: Apparently, Saddam Hussein was a dwarf or played Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2011, 11:08:47 am »

Here's a list of carp.
TvTropes ALERT!

Oh God. Too late. Bye, bye, rest of day.
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