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All TV channels have been interrupted to show some people playing the bagpipes.

I don't remember this coverage for the anniversary of the Turkish earthquakes, in which 10,000 people died.

Date: 2002-09-11 07:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nisaba.livejournal.com
There was a great skit back in the early eighties done by the D-Generation (Australian comedy group) where they had a "Racial Adjusted Death Toll counter" behind a news desk, and the announcer would say "10,000 Bangladeshis died in a terrible flood", and the counter would rise by three...

Funny how some 'jokes' don't die, because the truths they are based on don't fade :(

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