{"id":422,"date":"2004-10-29T23:21:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T06:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2004-10-29T23:21:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T06:21:47","slug":"cold-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2004\/10\/cold-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Bush says we hate freedom, let him tell us why we didn’t attack Sweden, for example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Top 10 reasons why Osama Bin Laden didn’t attack Sweden<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

10.<\/span> Couldn’t tell Sweden from Switzerland.<\/p>\n

9.<\/span> Attackers decided to take extended sick leave at 80% pay instead.<\/p>\n

8.<\/span> Stockholm World Trade Center<\/a> is only seven stories high, and they couldn’t find it.<\/p>\n

7.<\/span> Osama’s illness turns out to have been Stockholm Syndrome.<\/p>\n

6.<\/span> Has been reading a lot of Little Green Footballs<\/a>, thinks Sweden is a Wahhabist theocracy.<\/p>\n

5.<\/span> WMD attack did<\/em> occur, but Swedes are immune to surstr\u00f6mming bombs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4.<\/span> Because everybody knows Sweden has no army<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3.<\/span> Will never forget the summer of 1982 in Afghanistan and those long warm nights with Lotta Hedman, that hot Swedish backpacker — especially how she would unravel her blond pigtails as they bathed naked in the Amu Darya while the full moon illuminated the Hindu Kush. He still wakes up in a sweat thinking of her. Sometimes he wonders what has become of her.<\/p>\n

2.<\/span> IKEA<\/a> furniture easy to transport from cave to cave. Especially likes his Lagom™ brown tarpaulin backdrop and Slarvig™ collapsible desk.<\/p>\n

1.<\/span> Still holding out hope for a Nobel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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