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Oil Tanker Slips Anonymously Through Strait Of Hormuz By Adding Fake Nose And Mustache
https://babylonbee.com ^ | May 9 2026 | Unknown

Posted on 05/09/2026 3:56:06 PM PDT by Beowulf9

MIDDLE EAST — An oil tanker has managed to slip through the Strait of Hormuz completely undetected after donning a giant fake nose and mustache.

The tanker, known as the Delta Magnus, nonchalantly floated in disguise past both the Iranian and American blockades, leaving both sides none the wiser.

(Excerpt) Read more at babylonbee.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: babylonbee; oiltanker; straitofhormuz

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1 posted on 05/09/2026 3:56:06 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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2 posted on 05/09/2026 3:59:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Beowulf9
Say the secret word...

-PJ

3 posted on 05/09/2026 4:03:05 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Beowulf9

Must have been the “USS Woody Allen”


4 posted on 05/09/2026 4:26:59 PM PDT by yetidog
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I KNEW this was likely to happen but I thought that the disguise would be a burka! Sneaky devils.


5 posted on 05/09/2026 4:31:42 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Beowulf9

The old Groucho Marx disguise?


6 posted on 05/09/2026 6:26:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 ( YMMV)
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To: Paladin2

The IRGC saw all of the oil, thought it was Gavin Newsome’s hair, and said, “He’s on our side”.


7 posted on 05/09/2026 6:32:28 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Lol.. Babylon Bee, that’s funny..


8 posted on 05/09/2026 9:32:55 PM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: Tell It Right
The IRGC saw all of the oil, thought it was Gavin Newscom's hair, and said, “He’s on our side”.

Oddly Exxon Mobile and BP are in a very vicious bidding war for oil exploration rights to Newscom's hair. Each think it is good for at least 100 thousand barrels a day.

9 posted on 05/10/2026 12:24:10 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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seeing that I immediately thought of Frank Zappa!


10 posted on 05/10/2026 1:17:19 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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“seeing that I immediately thought of Frank Zappa!”

LOL!!!!


11 posted on 05/10/2026 4:34:59 AM PDT by captnemo1 (A man who holds a cat by the tail, learns a lesson that can nought be taught or learned any other w)
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