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does that mean they can finally retire from pestering america?

Ikkonoishi - my image hosting server is being a little PMS'y today. Keep refreshing...

ROTFLMAO!!

After they change the name, can we nuke the MUUN?

I like the plan, but definately relocate the HQ first. I'd hate to see nuclear fallout in New York.

Do you think we could get a union to do the relocation?

Very OT, but for those who care, Warspite, over at the Rott, has died.
This man was one of the most erudite people I ever read. Now I discover he's been blind for years, his grandson has been helping him post.
Go here.
If you've never seen his posts, well, you missed a lot.
This guy should have been President.

Dang!! You stole my thunder, Harvey!

I wanted to celebrate this on time, but ...

Me too :) You see, U.N. Day is seared, seared in my memory. At the school I attended growing up - an American school where some of the students' parents were U.N. employees - they'd spend the month of October on U.N.-directed classroom projects, then gather up all the little kids & take them to the auditorium on "U.N. Day" for a half-day of good old-fashioned multicultural indoctrination.

The fun included: making world flags w/construction paper in the classroom, waving them on cue at the assembly, learning different "world gov't-approved" songs in music class during the month of October, singing them on cue, listening to some U.N. officials (typically parents of some student) prattle on about how great the U.N. was, and how important we all were (2nd graders?), showing U.N.-funded films (like UNWRRA's Gaza refugee camp flicks), etc. Teachers were exhorted to get into the spirit too to inspire their classroom activities leading up to "U.N. Day". (Israeli embassy kids were polite throughout and seemed to tolerate it as best they could.)

The REAL sweetener: at the end of this crescendo, we got a day off from school. Never mind that this day (the 26th) was actually the host nation's national holiday: naturally it got lumped in with the U.N. Day festivities. (Thank goodness we had some nationals who bristled at this brazen usurpation.)

Yes, this was in the late 70's and early 80's.

I've since heard they no longer celebrate U.N. Day at the school because now they have the whole WEEK off - a kind of ecumenical "Fall Holiday" that, like our newfangled "Winter Breaks", can be used to celebrate your holidays of choice - Ramadan, U.N. Day, Halloween, All Saints' Day, or even your national holiday. But I'm sure there are a few who still get misty-eyed at the old-school display of "world unity" at that assembly - the world's "future generation" singing Kumba-yah in "world harmony..."

Heh. Getting nauseous just reading that :-)

Reminds me of the way they used to try to jam the metric system down my throat as a kid... "soon EVERYTHING will be metric!"

Pffft! Outside of liter bottles of Coke, it ain't happenin'.