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"Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> Kate Le Rosi wrote:
>
> > I just heard on the news that some of the skirmishes between civilians
and
> > soldiers at checkpoints in Iraqs have been caused by the civilians
refusing
> > to be approached by sniffer dogs.
>
> > Apparently they find dogs "culturally offensive".
>
> It is true.
>
> > Even assuming this is true, anyone know why?
>
> Yes. Because dogs eat human excrements (and so do pigs).
> So they are considered unclean, like pigs. There one exception:
> one breed called, if memory serves, saluki, which,
> I suppose, does not eat excrements.
>
> However, in the Thousand and One Nights, there is a tale
> of a man turned into a dog by a djinn. He finds refuge
> in the palace of Harun al-Raschid, the caliph of Baghdad.
> "Fortunately," he tells, "the Caliph was not one of those
> bigots."
>
> And since this goes to aus.pets...
>
> On the other hand, cats are supposed to well regarded.
> There is a legend that the prophet Muhammad, finding
> his cat asleep on his sleeve when he was to make his
> prayer, cut off the sleeve rather than disturbing the cat.
> Another version has the cat asleep on the prayer mat,
> and Muhammad cutting that piece out, and saying his
> prayer on his mat with a hole in the middle!
>
> (In exchange for this bit of info, tell me: what's this
> got to do with motorcycles?)

Fuck all old chap that's why it is funny as all f*&k

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