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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 10:39 AM
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Greece Offers to Repay Loans with Giant Horse
Edited on Mon May-03-10 10:40 AM by Ian David
Greece Offers to Repay Loans with Giant Horse
Steed Wheeled Into Brussels at Night

BRUSSELS (The Borowitz Report) – In what many are hailing as a breakthrough solution to Greece’s crippling debt crisis, Greece today offered to repay loans from the European Union nations by giving them a gigantic horse.

Finance ministers from sixteen EU nations awoke in Brussels this morning to find that a huge wooden horse had been wheeled into the city center overnight.

The horse, measuring several stories in height, drew mixed responses from the finance ministers, many of whom said they would have preferred a cash repayment of the EU’s bailout.

But German Chancellor Andrea Merkel said she “welcomed the beautiful wooden horse,” adding, “What harm could it possibly do?”



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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 10:49 AM
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1. That makes me smile.
:) Funny yet poignant, good satire.



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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 11:03 AM
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2. Couldn't Greece repay the debt with a giant chicken, instead?
I don't think the rest of the EU would cluck at the thought of accepting a giant chicken as payment.
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