Britain to get decidedly pissed off with Iran.

Y'all gonna invade or just turn the country into glass?

I said what we would do. We are demanding a boat back so we can send a gunboat and to sort out those Persian fellas once and for all.

You see its this sort of attitude which continually gets the Americans into so much trouble. No sense of diplomacy. We will neither invade nor turn the country into glass. Should we not get the Navy back, we will send a high level delegation from the the English County Cricket Board to explain, in detail, the laws of cricket. We expect the Persians to surrender immediately.

Torture in a new perspective.

New perspective? They do such, really!

And since not only I, but also Iran knows that - oars, footpumps, megaphones, handbooks 'Bridge and Chart Room' as well 'Safe Navigation in Small Boats on the Shatt-al-Arab' will soon be back at Her Majesty's Royal Navy Quartermaster's kind disposal.

'Safe Navigation in Small Boats on the Shatt-al-Arab'

A best seller in Britain, or soon will be

Apparently they are releasing the sailors.......fear of cricket wins the day.....

I'm developing an Anglophobia here...

They didn't run a damn successful empire for a long time without learning SOMETHING.

Imagine if it had been a US boat: Operation Shock 'n' Awe II.

Hmmm - we had to threaten the Indonesians in East Timor with cricket. It was a controversial decision - some folk think it against the Geneva convention - but man, it sure clears a warzone!

You folk oughta use gridiron more. It should be at least as effective - I mean, you hafta dress up in dumb clothes, and wear short pants, and such.

Scares the bejesus out of me.

Nnnooooo!!! Not the shotgun play! Anything but the shotgun play! Here, take my children.. anything! Just don't explain the shotgun to me again!!!

Biggest mistake we made was introducing those damn rabbits to Australia.

This whole episode seems shrouded in mystery. (Why only one small paragraph on page 12 of Guardian today?)

First the crew are to be released. Now they are being transported to Tehran.

Yesterday they were delivering boats to the Iraq river police.

Now it seems they were indeed British special forces with some highly sensitive equipment on board. (Which we want back, and its more sophisticated than oars and footpumps)


Members of the Special Boats Squadron (if thats what they are) do not ferry patrol boats about. Neither do they accidentally stray into 'enemy' territory.

I smell something distinctly fishy about all this, and its not just the Shatt al Arab either.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......curiouser and curiouser...

My sentiments entirely.

You heard the one about the hungry rabbit who goes in a bar?

Orders some food...nothing but sandwiches available

So he orders a lettuce sandwich. With chilli sauce and onion. Delicious toasted

So good in fact he has another. Cheese lettuce (not much) sardine and ham. Toasted as before.

And another carrot anchovy soy sauce chicken and mushroom. (with tabasco). Toasted as usual.

Next day he phones in sick. "I'm not well, the vet says I've got mixinmetoasties".

yer a sick man...

Way past your warren time isn't it?

Nope - 'tis but 9.35 pm

Oh my

Does that mean Australia is getting closer?