More dark humour, this time Chilcot-related

[LeftishBrit]

Last edited Thu Jul 7, 2016, 06:29 AM - Edit history (1)

From the Daily Mash:


FORMER president George W Bush has picked up his iPhone, looked at the caller, returned it to his pocket and continued his round of golf.

The retired politician, who was president between 2000 and 2008, was then seen staring into the middle distance and grimacing before jovially returning to his game....

“Then he said ‘You know when you work with a guy, and you get on great, but then somehow he gets the idea you’re buddies outside of work and you’re like uh, maybe not?’.

“‘We had fun back in the day, tore up some shit, but he keeps calling even though I ain’t answered in eight goddamn years, can you believe that?’....



http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/george-w-bush-picks-up-mobile-sees-whos-calling-puts-it-down-20160707110341

[JonathanRackham]

1. Any chance you could call it dark humor?

[LeftishBrit]

2. OK

[JonathanRackham]

3. Thanks.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. And then: The Rock movie plot 'may have inspired MI6 source's Iraqi weapons claim'

From that well known satirical source The Guardian:

The report details how MI6 sent information to “a small number of very senior readers”, including Tony Blair and the then foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on 11 and 23 September 2002.

Based on what MI6 called “a new source on trial with direct access”, this alleged that Saddam’s government had accelerated the production of chemical and biological agents, and in particular that chemical agents might be carried in glass containers.
...
MI6 accepted this possible flaw to the intelligence, the report adds: “The questions about the use of glass containers for chemical agents and the similarity of the description to those portrayed in The Rock had been recognised by SIS. There were some precedents for the use of glass containers but the points would be pursued when further material became available.”
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Nonetheless, in December Straw asked Dearlove’s team about the possibility of this mystery source “producing silver bullet intelligence” to guide UN inspectors to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/movie-plot-the-rock-inspired-mi6-sources-iraqi-weapons-claim-chilcot-report

This is why Private Eye this week has this:

This Article Is Already Out Of Date

In the time since this article was written, we know that multiple unforeseen events will have happened.

Boris Johnson may have decided to re-enter the Conservative leadership race ... Jeremy Hunt may be fighting a topless duel on horseback with Noel Edmonds.

We would like to invite the read to fill in the news below, in pencil:

___________________________________________________________

We would then like you to stare at the news you have just written down in slack-jawed horror for a few minutes before rubbing it out and starting again.

[Denzil_DC]

5. This won't fit in the Brexit memes thread ...