[lbo-talk] Buddhist funeral for Pol Pot's wife

Jonathan Schwarz jonathan.schwarz2 at verizon.net
Fri Jul 4 14:52:06 PDT 2003


On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 02:54 PM, "Ulhas Joglekar" <uvj at vsnl.com> wrote:


> PAILIN (Cambodia): The once-powerful wife of the Khmer Rouge leader,
> Pol
> Pot, was cremated on Thursday

When Pol Pot himself died and was cremated, a friend of mine was writing jokes for TV. He submitted this:

"Cambodian dictator Pol Pot died this week and was cremated on an outside pyre. Cambodians as far as five miles away were heard to say, "[sniff, sniff] Hey... do you smell Pot?"

To my intense disappointment, however, they didn't use it.



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