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1. Your OP headline reminds me of an amusing incident I had some time ago
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:28 AM
Yesterday

It was 1991, and "Operation Desert Storm" was in full swing.

I was appointed music director of a play at my college, tasked with providing incidental music for the production. The director, the drama professor and a kind of eccentric funny old guy, took me to a musical instrument shop, as he was to buy instruments for me to use in the play.

On the counter were some buttons and bumper stickers that read, "NO WAR IN IRAQ!"

I shook my head and said, "Nope, nope, nope. I totally disagree with that!"

The director, whom I'm sure was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, winced because he thought I was about to launch into a right-wingnut diatribe.

I finished, "There really IS a war in Iraq!"

He chuckled and said, "They're going to be nailed for false advertising."

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