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12/14/2003: "Saddam Hussein 'captured'."
Tony Blair confirms capture of Saddam in his hometown Tikrit.
So announces www.bbc.co.uk. I hadn't realised Tony Blair was from Tikrit, but there you go.
I can't type very well ATM; the middle finger on my right hand has an infected nail. I can peck at the keyboard like a maverick 70s New York cop at a typewriter ("Damn these frickkin reports - I should be out avenging Louis!") or I can try and touch type like an Alabammy lobster boy.
Why am I telling you this? Because it's difficult to say that Saddam's 'captured' picture on the beeb makes him look like an Arab hobo or an Arab santa in training; an image perfect for cheap t-shirts, much like the 'Who's Insane? Madass Insane!' ones of the first Gulf war.
(Those and 'loadsamoney' shirts were what the cool kids wore in the early 90s, along with Flintstones jeans and felt Filas.)
If you'd like to see a 90s Gulf War t-shirt, watch 'Knight Rider 3000'. The final scene in the shopping mall, a store behind David Tosslehoff has one in its window.
Tikrit, London and futuristic America - where will Saddam appear next?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3317429.stm
