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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Turkish Lawyer Sues The Royal Swedish Academy over Nobel Prize:
This year, The Royal Swedish Academy awarded the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk the Nobel Prize in literature. Kemal Kerincsiz, Esq., has vociferously criticized this choice. "Whereas it may be the case that the traitor Pamuk is not a completely incompetent wordsmith, the main criteria for awarding any prize should be the intrinsic Turkishness of the recipient and of his or her work," explains Mr Kerincsiz, Esq. "For this grave misjudgment on the side of the Royal Swedish Academy, I see myself forced to take legal action against it. I might also point out that I myself write rather well, a fact that the said academy seems to have overlooked," concludes Mr Kerincsiz, Esq. The European Union does not celebrate Thanksgiving in the same manner as the United States, and seems to be becoming increasing disinclined to ingest Turkey.
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