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Evening Border Closing Ceremony
Topic Started: Jun 12 2012, 04:39 AM (240 Views)
Newpianoplayer
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This Is how the border between India and Pakistan is closed every evening!!
This is not a Monty Python comedy skit, but it does resemble one.


Keep in mind that each of these countries have nuclear weapons...






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f3Wg2PiI4w
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Yes, this is what they do. It's a competition of sorts between the soldiers from each country. I don't see what's so weird about it or why it would be news. It would be like an Indian guy coming across a video of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and gawking at it.

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Okay, sorry, I can't let this go:
2) You have it backwards. This doesn't "resemble" a Monty Python skit. The two countries didn't base their military practices on a freaking Month Python skit, that's ridiculous. The Monty Python skit is a pisstake on ceremonies such as these.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Mikhailoh
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Tourism dollars rock.
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Piano*Dad
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Yeah, who do you suppose taught them to do this ....

Changing of the Guard
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Piano*Dad
Jun 12 2012, 08:42 AM
Yeah, who do you suppose taught them to do this ....

Changing of the Guard
I remember Captain Kangaroo used to have a Changing of the Guard feature.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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John D'Oh
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Piano*Dad
Jun 12 2012, 08:42 AM
Yeah, who do you suppose taught them to do this ....

Changing of the Guard
If there's one thing the Brits are good at, it's knowing the power of a good bluff.

Let's face it, we conquered half the known world with nothing more than a few hundred poorly trained soldiers and some amusingly shaped vegetables used for bartering people's kingdoms away.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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1hp
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They salute each other and shake hands before closing the border for the night. Quite civilised I think. The rest is pure British military army (especially the arm swings to shoulder height).
There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and................
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
I want to see the Klingon version.
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