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maycm
'cheeky banana'
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 Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject: Boris Yeltsin dead |
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Continuing coverage...
Dead
Dead
Dead
Still Dead
er....that's it. |
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Mandy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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It's sad to look back at a time like this to when he visited the holy land as a 68 year old man in 2000 :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/yeltsin/Story/0,,194951,00.html
"Yeltsin enjoys life in the slow lane"
Though can't help feeling he was responsible for allowing Russia / USSR to be raped by the wild-west version of the "free market". |
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nekokate
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Location: West Yorkshire, UK
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| They have to keep checking him from time to time because of the muscle-memory twitches that cause his corpse to appear to be ordering another vodka. |
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eefanincan
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I hadn't heard that he'd passed away. I didn't follow his politics too closely, but he seemed to be one of the more laid back Russian leaders. If I remember correctly he and Clinton seemed to get on well. |
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faceless
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| he was a puppet leader if ever there was one. I'm not bothered either way about him dying - he was an old guy who had his time. |
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Skylace
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| eefanincan wrote: | | I hadn't heard that he'd passed away. I didn't follow his politics too closely, but he seemed to be one of the more laid back Russian leaders. If I remember correctly he and Clinton seemed to get on well. |
I hadn't heard anything about it either. |
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IRiSHMaFIA
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| nekokate wrote: | | They have to keep checking him from time to time because of the muscle-memory twitches that cause his corpse to appear to be ordering another vodka. |
 good one |
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