In a story that practically writes its own jokes, the Nigerian gov't is looking for Leichtenstein to send back millions of dollars (http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-says-liechtenstein-making-excuses-keep-abacha-loot-070216103.html) stashed there by the former military dictator of the African country.
QuoteNigeria accused Liechtenstein of using legal challenges as a pretext to cling on to 185 million euros stolen by former military dictator Sani Abacha who died 14 years ago.
Nigeria has been fighting to recover the money for years, but companies linked to the Abacha family keep going to court to prevent the funds being repatriated, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said.
A Liechtenstein government spokesman said the country was making efforts to return the money but a complaint in the European Court of Human Rights brought by companies affected was still pending.
"We feel that the Liechtenstein people have been stalling for 14 years," Okonjo-Iweala told Reuters.
"They are just looking for excuses and I think this is where international civil society should mount pressure on these people," she added. "The authorities are holding things back."
Abacha looted between $3 billion and $5 billion of public money during his five years ruling Africa's top oil producer from 1993-1998, Transparency International says.
A Liechtenstein court ordered the Abacha money confiscated in 2012, but companies linked to his family have mounted a challenge in the European Court of Human Rights and Liechtenstein fears being liable for the money should they win.
"We're asking: why have they been keeping our money all this time? Fronting companies for Abacha family are trying to delay things and Liechtenstein are hiding behind that," Okonjo-Iweala said. "Somebody's making money off it."
You can't make this up...
(more at the link)
you and bob should team up to double entendre and pun yourself til you feel spent - seriously the two of you sat in a park like staedtler and waldorf shouting 'boobs, bangers, and cocks' to each other until you passed out, or passed away in bobs case............
The comments look like they're bound to be hilarious. I'm helping. :)
lol - just getting a head start?
That "But remember casket" comment got me started.
Not that I'm good at trolling or anything...
Boobs Bangers and Cocks, A Play in Three Parts, Starring Bawb and Friends.
Sold out!
Quote from: undercovergeek on October 16, 2013, 08:45:43 AM
you and bob should team up to double entendre and pun yourself til you feel spent - seriously the two of you sat in a park like staedtler and waldorf shouting 'boobs, bangers, and cocks' to each other until you passed out, or passed away in bobs case............
Sounds like a great way to spend an afternoon to me..........
.....well, apart from the 'passing away' bit, obviously.
Quote from: Gusington on October 16, 2013, 10:23:27 AM
Boobs Bangers and Cocks, A Play in Three Parts, Starring Bawb and Friends.
Sold out!
Its actually the missing 7th episode of Blackadder III
i thought it was your legal team lest any of the puns get you into trouble
Quote from: undercovergeek on October 16, 2013, 01:58:41 PM
i thought it was your legal team lest any of the puns get you into trouble
then he'd get punished
punishingly so
I just read about this story a few moments ago on another website. I wanted to find out if there was an update but the headline said 'No change yet'.
Quote from: Gusington on October 16, 2013, 10:23:27 AM
Boobs Bangers and Cocks, A Play in Three Parts, Starring Bawb and Friends.
Sold out!
Sounds like the name of an English pub.
^lol - one I would most likely avoid.
Quote from: OJsDad on October 16, 2013, 04:15:29 PM
Quote from: Gusington on October 16, 2013, 10:23:27 AM
Boobs Bangers and Cocks, A Play in Three Parts, Starring Bawb and Friends.
Sold out!
Sounds like the name of an English pub.
in soho maybe :o
Is your SoHo anything like our Manhattan's SoHo (South of Houston St)?
(BTW, it's pronounced "How-sten Street, not Hew-ston Street, as Gus and the rest of the Tri-Staters are well aware of. ;))
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 16, 2013, 05:41:29 PM
Is your SoHo anything like our Manhattan's SoHo (South of Houston St)?
(BTW, it's pronounced "How-sten Street, not Hew-ston Street, as Gus and the rest of the Tri-Staters are well aware of. ;))
This is yours:-
SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores. The area's history is an archetypal example of inner-city regeneration and gentrification, encompassing socio-economic, cultural, political and architectural developments.[2]
Almost all of SoHo is included in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, which was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973, extended in 2010, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978.[3] It consists of 26 blocks and approximately 500 buildings,[4] many of them incorporating cast iron architectural elements. The side streets in the district are notable for being paved with Belgian blocks.
The name "SoHo" refers to the area being "SOuth of HOuston (Street)", and was also a reference to the London district of Soho. It was coined by Chester Rapkin,[5] an urban planner who was the author of the "South Houston Industrial Area" study,[6] also known as the "Rapkin Report". This began a naming convention which has become a model for the names of new, emerging and re-purposed neighborhoods in New York such as TriBeCa for "TRIangle BElow CAnal Street", NoHo ("NOrth of HOuston Street"), DUMBO ("Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass"), Nolita ("NOrth of Little ITAly") and NoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square"), among others.
This is ours:-
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable transformation. It now is predominantly a fashionable district of upmarket restaurants and media offices, with only a small remnant of sex industry venues.
I would say yours sounds cosmopolitan and trendy - ours is porn cinemas, porn shops and sex shops, but its across the road from Chinatown - theres no finer place to stand on a Saturday night than the meeting of the two zones where you can see dildos and fake vaginas hanging in the window and across the road is 500 bright red Crispy ducks hanging in their window
Soho in London is quite the locale. I do some apartment rental description writing for a rental organization's properties in London. Recently I had to figure out how to write one up that was literally next door to, on one side, a nude bar and on the other side, a gay bar.
Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that. And, ideally, anyone wanting to stay in Soho London is likely already aware of the bawdy characteristics of that fabulous neighborhood.
I really, really hope to visit London someday - I've become quite familiar with central London through these articles. :)
Nigeria to Lichtenstein on the missing funds extorted by the Abacha family: "It was a costly mistake."