Posted on 09/18/2016 1:48:24 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Best laugh I’ve had all week, thanks!!!
Sarkhan City?
That’s what I said to my Dad’s notoriously liberal friend when he told it a month or so ago!
Sarkhan is the fictional country in Southeast Asia, in which the 1958 novel The Ugly American is set. From the Wikipedia:
The novel takes place in a fictional nation called Sarkhan (an imaginary country in Southeast Asia that somewhat resembles Burma or Thailand, but which is meant to allude to Vietnam) and includes several real people, most of whose names have been changed. The book describes the United States's losing struggle against Communism due to the ineptness and bungling of the U.S. diplomatic corps[5] stemming from innate arrogance and their failure to understand the local culture. The book implies that the Communists were successful because they practiced tactics similar to those of protagonist Homer Atkins.[1]
That was my second guess:)
All of that may be true, but with his haircut he would be prime for a remake of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’.
Just needs overalls and some straw.
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