| had a dream when | was in norway. rob said it was interesting and that | should write it down. rob's often wrong on these things. blame him if you get bored
so, | dreamt that saddam hussein, the butcher of baghdad, had escaped from american-occupied-iraq and was hiding out in some country (norway, | guess) in which | was, also, in. and somehow (the dream didn't really make it clear how) saddam had taken some kind of shining to me and was always inviting me to his big house parties
my friends gave me a hard time for hanging out with a former tyrant. he butchered hundreds of people they said; don't hang out with him
| know | said, he's dag-nasty evil. but | like all the presents he gives me and his parties are cool and it's kind of neat hanging out with someone who is such a global celebrity, even if he is a tyrant
| said that if | could go into "cheat mode", | would gun down saddam and all of his friends (various international criminals, such as osama bin laden and saddam's two dead sons Uday and qusay, also attended these parties), but without cheat mode, there's a chance they'd fight back and kill me, and | didn't want to be dead. so | was sort of trapped going to these parties, as well
anyway, one time | was at this great party at saddam's and Uday started to hassle me. | was wearing a t-shirt of some tori-amos-esque singer-songwriter who had unthinkingly put an Arabic symbol she did not know the meaning of on her t-shirt, and Uday was very upset that | was wearing this symbol so brazenly on my chest. he started to shove me about, all the while yelling at me in a language | didn't understand (iraqi, would be my guess). | tried to placate him but he was extremely offended by this symbol on my t-shirt
there was a small boy perched on a sofa nearby
-| am from pakistan, he said, and | know what that symbol means-
what does it mean? | asked rather desperately
-that is the symbol for naan bread- he said
well why is he getting so offended by it, then?
-it would take too long to explain-
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