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S.Koreans Chop Off Fingers in Anti-Japan Protest
Reuters ^
| 3/14/05
| Reuters
Posted on 03/14/2005 10:00:34 AM PST by Sax
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:00:36 AM PST
by
Sax
To: Sax
To: Sax
To: Sax
Cutting off your nose to spite your face alert!
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:02:42 AM PST
by
Arkie2
To: Sax
Noses, faces, Lorena Babbit. No thanks.
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:02:43 AM PST
by
garyhope
To: bahblahbah
I'd like to point out that I think this is stupid...
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:02:57 AM PST
by
mallardx
To: Sax
The antics of the mentally unstable will not add legitimacy to one's cause.
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:04:29 AM PST
by
Tamar1973
(The path to conservative brilliance starts at Free Republic!)
To: Sax
Park Kyung-ja, a 67-year-old woman
Also known as 'Stumpy'...
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:04:49 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
To: Sax
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:05:59 AM PST
by
Arpege92
(Mr. Kerry, you are a jerk!" - Pat Sajak)
To: Sax
"I'll show them!"...
chop!.....aaaarrrggghhh!...."there, that showed'em!"
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:06:32 AM PST
by
nothingnew
(There are two kinds of people; Decent and indecent.)
To: Sax
I've heard of "giving 'em the finger"...but this is ridiculous.
To: Sax
This doesn't surprise me. Koreans have been cutting themselves, lopping off digits, setting themselves ablaze, all in the name of some cause for a long time. Many Koreans will probably see this as a noble act and blame Japan.
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:08:14 AM PST
by
Kokojmudd
(Today's Liberal is Tomorrow's Prospective Flying Saucer Abductee)
To: Sax
I'll bet that when they were kids, they held their breath to get what they wanted.
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:09:44 AM PST
by
Sax
To: Sax
It's possible that this was done in reference to the Japanese Yakuza practice of severing the pinkie for misdeeds.
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:10:04 AM PST
by
srm913
To: Sax
Its going to start to feel a lot better after it stops hurting! (Thats what I always say to myself as I hop around right after I stub my toe.)
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:11:14 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Sax
To: Sax
They should send the digits to North Korea. Could feed an entire village for a week.
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:12:31 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(If this isn't the End Times it certainly is a reasonable facsimile...)
To: Sax
Did the fingers have purple ink on them?
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:13:19 AM PST
by
theDentist
(The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: Kokojmudd
"....Many Koreans will probably see this as a noble act and blame Japan.....
Here in the US, it'll be Bush's fault!
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:13:49 AM PST
by
aShepard
To: COBOL2Java
"Could feed an entire village for a week"
LOL, good one
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posted on
03/14/2005 10:14:15 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
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