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Jihadi uncovers misprint in holy book the hard way

Jihadi meets his virgins
And the Lord saith unto Achmed from on high, “Seventy virgin Windows. Windows you idiot, not Women!”
Photo: copyright Dale Amon, All Rights Reserved

12 comments to Jihadi uncovers misprint in holy book the hard way

  • mdc

    What’s a virgin windows?

  • Raheel

    Great post,Nasa will go far away from mars.

  • Dale Amon

    Sort of an IT joke. When you have done a fresh install of an operating system it is jokingly called a ‘virgin install’. Thus a virgin Window. The pics are actually of a Windows System7 install giving its ‘hello world’ message after the install completed.

  • Dom

    Actually, I heard it really is a misprint for “72 raisons”. Don’t know if it’s true, but wouldn’t it be great if it were? All those people killing themselves for something you can buy in a grocery store these days.

  • steve

    I think the Koran is clear enough. It’s seventy virgins for all of eternity. So basically, 72 women your not allowed to touch, but I bet they are still allowed to complain.

  • Eddie Willers

    72 female virgins?

    Holy crap! There’s a bunch of ugly ass guys out there!

  • Dom

    “So basically, 72 women your not allowed to touch, but I bet they are still allowed to complain.”

    The Koran says, you kuffar, that each virgin is immediately re-virginated after sex. Still, starting on day 73, it must get pretty boring.

  • I thought it was “raisins” also. “Sultana” has been mis-translated as “unimpregnated female warlord” instead of “sun-dried grape”.

    And my old late father, fairly well-informed about middle-Eastern affairs and peoples, and who married a Lebanese woman and thus got stuck with me, said that in Paradise, the faithful drink “honey-flavoured water, and THERE IS NO DESIRE”. (Well, there you go.)

  • 'Nuke' Gray

    I don’t know what you’re laughing about. I bet that 72 virgin, ie unbroken, windows would have been worth a fortune in the middle east! Glass untouched by grubby masculine hands!

  • Dom

    “unimpregnated female warlord” instead of “sun-dried grape”.

    This is why we need more Centers of Islamic Studies at our Universities.

  • Dyspeptic Curmudgon

    Whatever you do, don’t tell Achmed.

    He keel you!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

  • Joshua

    There was a great editorial cartoon a few months back after Osama Bin Laden was buried at sea.

    It showed Osama underwater surrounded by fish and thinking, “… 72 sturgeons?”