Could you pack everything you own and move into exile within 48 hours?

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Moving house is a big deal. I reckon that for me to move country, ie. to choose somewhere else to move to, check it out, find a job and someone to live, get everything I own together, learn a new language etc etc etc would take at least six months. Now, I'm a single guy living in a one bedroomed flat with a lot of cds and books, a cat and a few bits of furniture. If I were a third world dictator living in god knows how many palaces, I don't think that 48 hours would be sufficient time to do all this. How about you?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

if i had a big enough truck i could..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Saddam already knows English, he learned it in America at the Defense Language Institute in San Antonio. The guy sleeps in a different building every night - he's used to it.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoever came up with that Saddam and Son thing on the TV show thread was a genius.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Saddam already knows English, he learned it in America at the Defense Language Institute in San Antonio.

so did one of the "hijackers" on flight 93 that crashed in w. PA IIRC.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah - as long as i had enough coffee and uniform boxes. hate it when moving boxes are different sizes.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

'Hijackers' in quotes? I'm willing to be cynical about a lot of things but I don't believe those guys were there just for the ride.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah - as long as i had enough coffee and uniform boxes. hate it when moving boxes are different sizes.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:31 (twenty-three years ago)

ned:

read the quotes as a frustrating stance with regard to the amount of our and our parent's tax dollars that have been spent training/educating/supporting: OBL, Saddam Hussein, and some of the Saudis/Yemenis involved with 9/11.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Blowback! Your best tax value.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't MTv set to film the move as the first episode of the new reality series THE HUSSEINS?

― Lithium Lunchbox (Lithium Lunchbox), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope, it's all part of an MTV plot to try and make "The Real World" remotely interesting, he's being hustled into a high-rise on the Hudson therein to share with Stephen Hawking, Rosemary West and a small dog that smells. The cameras focus mainly on Stephen pissing himself laughing at Rosemary trying to sleep with and kill the dog whilst habitually setting puzzles for the cameramen, occasionally cutting back to Saddam rearranging his collection of fairy pictures whilst singing "I want to be a fairy too" under his breath in an unappealing monotone. Needless to say it's shit, and we all avidly await the 3D version of "Sharkey and George" to save television from it's otherwise ineivitable self-immolation.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I am trying to do the opposite at the moment. Saddam would find it easier because he could afford removal men (if he hurries).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"trinkets, knick-knacks, tchtotchkes, human skulls, bric-a-brac"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the answer is no...

― g.cannon (gcannon), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

HAHA The Real World: Paris!

PENELOPE: This is the story...
JERMAINE: ...of seven strangers...
GUY: ...picked to live in an appartement...
OSAMA: ...and have their lives taped...
ROTRAUD: ...to find out what happens...
SADDAM: ...when people stop being polite...
TRINNY: ...and start being REAL!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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