I discover I am the victim of a great Fraud named A2K.

thank you my friend!

oh, to live in iraq is to live a troubled life....but i must say things are better now that saddam is gone. the extremests are in the minority, most want peace and freedom and a good life for our children....

many believe that bush was right about weapons of mass destruction but that saddam either hid them too well or they haven't been found yet...

i personally love bush and hope he wins a second term!! saddams regime have killed and stolen many of my goats....

among my people i am a rich man and a funny man....i hold great sway among the people of my region....a grasp of the english language helps much...

but i have a few questions for you americans....

1. do you really eat the feet of pigs??

2. is it true that most americans weigh over 150 kilograms??

3. do americans really pay to make love over the phone??

Abu may not be in Iraq, and his posts a sham. There are things in Abu's two postings that seem suspicious, but in the absence of better knowledge I suppose we should give him the benefit of the doubt ... for the moment.

Well joe, if you don't trust the 'reality' of a2k personna maybe you should have a chat with Alice.

[and by the way ash, i think "Abu Ishaq Al Juwayri" is arabic for "Joe Nation" - just a hunch.]

Abu,

Assuming that you are not a fraud,

1. Yes, some Americans do enjoy eating pig's feet. This is a dish primarily popular with Black Americans with deep roots in the southern part of our country. In earlier times, Blacks in the South lived in extreme poverty, and often food had to be taken from unlikely sources. Personally I've never tried pig's feet.

Here in the American Southwest a popular snack is made of deep-fried pork skins. They taste marvelous, but oh the colostral in each bite as mega-death by heart attack.

2. Average Americans do tend to be over-weight, but I don't think the average would be over 100 kilos. We live in the midst of plenty, and it is easy to over eat. I don't think anyone dies of starvation here. Fast foods, and packaged foods that are high in calories are plentiful and cheap.

3. I don't know how prevalent phone sex is, but it does exist. Lonely people can telephone "services" that provide explicit sexual conversation to feed the caller's fantasies. Presumably the callers masturbate during the telephone conversation. From that you should not presume that American's in general do not have serious ongoing heterosexual relationships. Marriage is still popular here. Though it is easy to get a divorce, most people expect and value marriages that last many years.

Can you please clarify for us that you are indeed who and what you say you are?

indeed i am good sir! it is no great matter to prove such....do you have any suggestions?, since it is apparently on the verge of unbelievable...

Well, you can grant this site permission to disclose your location.

I've been doubting Abu since he posted but I so want him to be a true Iraqui citizen....oh well

Sadly Abu is just a Kwik-E Mart owner somewhere in California. I'm not sure about the Kwik-E Mart, but it would have been a lot funnier if he was actually from Iraq.

Well, he might be Iraqi. (Though I'm sure that I saw him over there, with the windex.) The only way of proving it, though, is if his location is disclosed, as Craven suggested. As Abu has a strong conviction that he is in Iraq, there should be no problem with this.

You mean this is the "I Discover That I Am The Victim Of A Great Fraud Named Abu" thread?

I'm afraid so. The worst part is that he doesn't even like the goats. I find that mental baatery.

dear moderator: please disclose my location to put an end to al of this....

note: i must confess....i do not yet have legitimate internet service....suffice it to say i am 'hijacking' a connection so my ip address may not reflect my actual location....i'm not sure, but it should definitely show up somewhere in iraq.....

Bad joke, DetR, i loved it . . .

"but it should definitely show up somewhere in iraq..... "
If it does you will have my full apology and you will be welcomed with open arms.

thank you panzade....

moderator....i await your liberation...

Cool. I'd be happy to comply with your request.

Your location is central California. And your claim that you "hijack" a connection from Iraq is simply a lie (and a transparent one) but feel free to attempt to explain how that works. Should be a good laugh for the techie-types.

Your screen name is pieced together from sites like this. The name you use in your email is not Arabic, prolly a "hijacked" email too? And you have been banned from at least one other forum I have found.

But instead of the vehement denials that usually come from exposed fraud, why not just demonstrate a bit of competence with Arabic eh? It would be a piece of cake for an Iraqi to demonstrate Arabic fluency.

That should be interesting.

Abu you rat!( I mean goat) You played me for a fool. Now I will send a special curse to bedevil you.

That's a bold fraud. No consideration for the real Iraqis.

Now this is a sad turn of events, I was only funning about fraudsters and here we come up with a real faker, or fakir as the case may be. The only thing to do is for me and Gus to head for Central California and disconnect this guy's typing fingers with a jackknife and a pair of water-pump pliers.

If you'd like to come along, stand on the side of I-70 this weekend and we'll pick you up.

Joe

May a thousand camels fart on your beard, Abu.