SX43%LIVERPOOL.AC.UK@evans.ucar.edu (11/14/90)
I found this in a recent issue of MuslimWise magazine.. maybe some of you
out there will have enough knowledge of recent events to find this funny.
It took me a few re-reads to see the jokes in some of it !
[I would appreciate copies of any related postings to be emailed to me at
sx43 @ uk.ac.liv.ibm. Comments welcomed. Thanks, Fazal. ]
Topic : Humorous Piss-Take of Recent events.
Title : 'Top Ten films watched by muslims this year '
Source : MuslimWise magazine (Sept 1990).
Contact: BM MuslimWise,
London WC1N 3XX
England, UK.
Telephone : 081-902-5968/6074 (England)
[ Reprinted here *with* permission. ]
Keywords : Fahd, Saddam, Thatcher, Rushdie, Gorbachev ...
TOP TEN FILMS WATCHED BY MUSLIMS THIS YEAR.
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1) TOTAL RECALL.
Starring the ex-amir of Kuwait. Directed by Saddam Hussein.
Produced by George Bush. Written by the CIA. Special effects by CNN television.
Music by 4000 western hostages soon available on CN at Virgin Records.
2) HONEY, I GASSED THE KIDS.
Starring Saddam Hussein. Directed by Tariq Aziz.
Produced by Mustard Promotions. Script by Michael Aflaq. Distributed by the BBC
and ITN.
3) ANOTHER 48 HOURS.
Starring King Eddie Hussein and Sultan Naughty Qaboos of Om
an. Supporting act by the 'Desert Rats'. The theme song 'Arab Solution' by Quee
n Noor availble at all major record shops. Released through Port of Aqaba Bros.
4) INTERNATIONAL GORILLAS.
The 'multinational forces in the Gulf'. Sponsored by
Nissan, Toyota and Mazda. Supporting role by Audi and Mercedes-Benz.
5) LOOK WHO'S TALKING.
Douglas Turd, William Waldegrave, and Lynda Chalker.
Special effects by lobby correspondents. Script by Bernard Ingham. A Margaret T
hatcher production. Released through Newsnight Productions Ltd.
6) CRY BABY.
Benazir Bhutto,Nusrat Bhutto, and Mr. Ten-percent Bhutto. Music by
Fatty Ali Khan. Directed by one of the Haq's and distributed through the BBC et
hnic unit at Pebble Mill, Birmingham (UK).
7) BACK TO THE FUTURE IV.
Special appearance by Gorbachev, Andropov, Brezhnev,
Khrushchev, Stalin, and Lenin. Script by Living Marxism and Marxism Today. Musi
c by Billy Bragg. Distributed in conjunction with McDonalds and Pizza Hut.
8) WILD AT HEART.
Arthur Scargill, Ron Todd, and the NUM/IMO. Special appearance
s by Naim Kinnock. A David Lynch film. Produced and directed by Russian Miners.
Distributed by the Daily Mirror and Socialist Worker.
9) GREMLINS III : THE STUPID BATCH.
Starring King Fahd and his 1000 relatives.In
troducing Pork Sausages, Topless GIs and Budweiser to the vicinity of the Holy
Places . A stupin movie based on a book by Ben Gurion. Directed by Saudi Arabia
's haw-haw ulama. Produced by the Pentagon. World-Wide distribution (18).
10) STAR-TREK III : THE SEARCH FOR SALMAN.
Starring Salman Rushdie (or somebody
who looks like him), Fay Weldon, and Norman Tebbit. Script by the *Independent
on Sunday* adapted from the book 'In good faith'. Produced by Penguin and dist
ributed by Book-burning Mullahs Inc. in conjunction with Rear Window by Bin-dun
g File. PG.
:-)