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September 21, 2007
To whom it may concern

The year: 1667. The Zaporozhian Cossacks defeat a Turkish army. Ever the optimist, Sultan Mehmed IV sends a letter. It reads:
The Cossack reply, a lesson echoing down to the present day.
You Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, Armenian pig, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw your own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding Christian pigs. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
This entire post via Turban Bomb - my new idol, now permalinked - who adds: "Quite an appropriate response if You ask me. Should be nailed on the walls in every Western Foreign Ministry."
Exactly.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 21, 2007 06:57 AM
Comments
They beat Turk janissaries but caved to the Russians?!
Posted by: Chris Taylor
at September 21, 2007 01:32 PM
The Russians weren't so foreign to them. Makes a difference.
Posted by: Ben (The Tiger in Exile)
at September 21, 2007 02:23 PM
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