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In other news, a Frenchwoman who fled from wild boars by climbing a tree was unable to get down, and had to be rescued from its branches by helicopter.
Were those genuine European wild boars or just your everyday ordinary elite-Socialist crashing bores?
Enquiring minds want to know!
I see at least one member of the Turkish ruling AKP party agrees with your strapline.
via Wikileaks and Brussels Journal , this:
"We have also run into the rarely openly-spoken, but widespread belief among adherents of the Turk-Islam synthesis that Turkey's role is to spread Islam in Europe, "to take back Andalusia and avenge the defeat at the siege of Vienna in 1683" as one participant in a recent meeting at AKP's main think tank put it."
@Zenster:
Either way, Obelix could have made short work of them. He had just as much enthusiasm for hunting wild boars as for bashing human enemies.
Those Romans were crazy...
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