Apr 24, 2007 9:30 AM

Terrorists Are Easy to Spot

The Australian blokes on The Chaser’s War on Everything, who were last seen around these parts trying to fly as Al Kyder and Terry Wrist, decided to test what happen when an American tourist films a bridge and a nuclear facility, and what happens when a man in a beard and a dishdasha. The predictable, […]

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