Arafat Dead

[mr_gyptian]

I'm off to buy my first lottery ticket.


Nov 4, 2004 — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was declared clinically dead on Thursday in a French hospital, Israeli television said citing French sources.

But Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie denied the report, saying: "I have just spoken to the officials in Paris and they say the situation is still as it was. He is still in the intensive care unit."

Israel's Channel Two television cited unnamed sources in Paris saying that Arafat underwent a brain scan and was found to be "no longer alive."

Palestinian sources earlier told Reuters that the Palestinian president, who was admitted to hospital last week with a mysterious stomach illness, had slipped into a coma.

[skimoore]

cnn is saying he's not...who knows maybe moving him around confused some of the press. makes for great headlines though: Arafat not dead!

Hospital: Arafat not dead
Palestinian leader moved to different department

Thursday, November 4, 2004 Posted: 12:38 PM EST (1738 GMT) PARIS, France (CNN) -- A spokesman for the French military hospital housing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has told reporters the ailing leader is not dead. He added though on Thursday that the 75-year-old leader had been moved to another department within the hospital for treatment more appropriate for his condition.

[bad_roo]

There's something Pythonesque about this...

Israel's Channel Two television quoted unnamed sources in Paris which said Mr Arafat underwent a brain scan and was "no longer alive".

[basom]

i just heard he lapsed into a coma.

[Arnold Babar]

There's something Pythonesque about this...

Israel's Channel Two television quoted unnamed sources in Paris which said Mr Arafat underwent a brain scan and was "no longer alive".

"Let's not argue over who killed who..."

[VTskibum]

... the ailing leader is not dead. He added though on Thursday that the 75-year-old leader had been moved to another department within the hospital for treatment more appropriate for his condition.

AKA the Morgue?

[AntiSoCalSkier]

Cool! We need more power-vacuumes in the middle-east!

[basom]

http://www.bgclean.co.uk/images/vacum.gif

[13]

If he is in fact dead, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it turns out to be an assassination.

[iceman]

Arafat: "I'm not dead yet! Actually I'm feeling much better!"

[bad_roo]

An Israeli spokeman told the BBC

"He's not pining, he's passed on! This Palestinian leader is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He is a late leader! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he would be pushing up the daisies! His metabolical processes are of interest only to historians! He has hopped the twig! He's shuffled off this mortal coil! He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! He....
is an EX-YASSIR!"

[summit]

Good riddance. One of the worst terrorists on the planet is now dead or at deaths door.

[basom]

Good riddance. One of the worst terrorists on the planet is now dead or at deaths door.

and an even more fanatical one will surely step up to lead the PLO. wicked awsome.

roo, that is the funniest python sketch of all time. i love the dead parrot sketch!

[AntiSoCalSkier]

"The report of my death was an exageration."

(We need more Mark Twain quotes around here)

[SPREAD EAGLE]

he rolls over well too...

I had a hunch he was going to join the famously dead undead crew, like Elvis, Tupac, Marilyn Monroe, etc. He's had enough of the limelight for a lifetime. Now he'll be able to smoke hash in peace without all the peace talks.

[mr_gyptian]

"The report of my death was an exageration."

(We need more Mark Twain quotes around here)

paraphrases or quotes?

[iceman]

Yassir's not dead, he's just pinin' for the fjords.

[yogachik]

he should die (violently) 16 times -

[AltaPowderDaze]

not dead, yet.....

[freshie247]

"I think I'll go for a walk."

"Look..,You're not fooling anyone."

"I feel happy,I feel hap," THUNK.

"I'll see you on Thursday."

"Right."

Welcome to the Era of Hezbolah!

[Vets]

The death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the first season of Saturday Night Live in 1975 served as the source of one of the first catch phrases from SNL to enter the general lexicon.

Franco lingered near death for weeks before dying. On slow news days, United States network television news casters sometimes noted that Franco was still alive, or not yet dead. The imminent death of Franco was a headline story on the NBC news for a number of weeks prior to his death on November 20.

After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on Saturday Night Live's comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quote from Richard Nixon praising Franco as a good friend of the United States; as an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco standing alongside Adolf Hitler.

From that point on, Chase made it clear that SNL would get the last laugh at Franco's expense. "This breaking news just in", Chase would announce-- "General ssimo Francisco Franco is still dead!" The top story of the news segment for several weeks running was that General simo Francisco Franco was still dead. Chase would repeat the story at the end of the news segment, aided by Garrett Morris, "head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing", whose "aid" in repeating the story involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the headline.

The phrase may owe something to "General Grant Still Dead", one of the examples of undesirable newspaper headlines in Headlines and Deadlines, a handbook for newspaper copy editors by Robert Garst and Theodore M. Bernstein. Another possible precedent is in an issue of National Lampoon from 1973 that began with a picture of Eisenhower waving, with the caption "Hi kids, I'm still dead!"
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[Steven S. Dallas]

I just hope he passes on his "famous" pipe bomb recipe to someone before he goes. Those things are delicious.

[mr_gyptian]

I just hope he passes on his "famous" pipe bomb recipe to someone before he goes. Those things are delicious.

hey, I thought you had me on ignore. how do you see my threads?

[basom]

he's that smart.

or so i imagine.

[phUnk]

Yassir's not dead, he's just pinin' for the fjords.

Arafat is quite clearly just shagged out from having a long squawk.