An Englishman, an Irishman & a Scotsman get captured by Iraqis during the first gulf war... They get taken to an Iraqi military base in the middle of the desert. Saddam Hussein himself is there, and explains to them that they're at a secret location the allies don't know about so there's no chance of a rescue but they're only 50 miles from the Kuwait border. He says they're welcome to use any of the vehicles & equipment on the base to escape to Kuwait, and if they make it to the border t

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A Saudi asks a Kuwaiti A Saudi man is sitting in a Hashish lounge, smoking and listening to a glorious Islamic nasheed. In walks another man, from Kuwait. ""Hey Nassar! How are you?"", asks the Saudi. ""I'm fine, Allah be praised. What is that you are listening to?"", he replies. The Saudi, shocked, says to him ""Brother, this is the holiest and most sacred nasheed! Have you not heard of this?"" ""No"", answered the Kuwaiti man. ""Where have you been living Nassar, under a rock?"" Nassar, disgus

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A man's job... A man's job sent him to Kuwait in the late 80's and he had to visit many small villages. He began to observe a strange custom. The men always seemed to be walking 20 or 30 feet in front of their wives. Curiosity got the best of him and he finally asked a pair of men why they did that. The men replied that for thousands of years men had preceded their wives as an expression of their superiority. Ten years later, now a war torn country, the man returned and happened by the same vill

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A journalist had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait several years before the Gulf War and she noted then that women customarily walked about 10 feet behind their husbands. She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the men now walked several yards behind their wives. She approached one of the women for an explanation. ""This is marvelous"" said the journalist. ""What enabled women here to achieve this reversal of roles?"" Replied the Kuwaiti woman: ""Land mines""

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