poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on an unbiased voice (or the most biased one you'll hear) by i_am_the_popsicle.

zodiac11 Mar 2005

Yesterday my Iraqi barber explained it to me this way:

During Saddam's time, all cigarette lighters in Iraq cost 10 cents. If a merchant tried to sell a lighter for 11 cents, Saddam's police would come and kill him. That's protection. True story.