this is hilarious...
Countries Who Met Over Internet Go To War
http://www.theonion.com/onion3812/countries_who_met.html
excerpts:
> TARTU, ESTONIA--Just months after meeting in an Internet chat
> room, the nations of Suriname and Estonia have entered a state of open
> hostility, U.N. sources reported Tuesday.
>
> "In early January, Surinamese president Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan
> logged onto a small-nations chat room on Yahoo! and came across
> Estonian president Arnold Ruutel," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
> said. "The two exchanged messages and, before long, became Internet
> friends, bonding over their shared experiences as leaders of tiny
> republics."
:
> Venetiaan recalled the leaders' first chat-room encounter.
>
> "I didn't know I'd one day live to regret meeting that lousy
> ex-Commie," said Venetiaan, who logged on using his secondary e-mail
> account,
[email protected]. "Estonia looked like an
> interesting country, so, being the leader of a country myself, I typed
> in a message saying, 'hello out there.. whatsup in etsonia?'"
>
> Less than 30 seconds later, Venetiaan received a response.
>
> "It was from Estonia, saying, 'the inflations terrible!!! How
> bout where you are?' I wrote back, 'inflations pretty bad here too but
> at least it's 80 degrees and sunny!!! ;)' He replied, 'i'm sooo
> jealous--it's freezing here! by the way I'm wracking my brains trying
> to think of new economic measures to strengthen estonia's
> manufacturing base. if youve got any suggestions, feel free send them
> my way!'"
>
> Stressing that he usually does not e-mail countries he doesn't
> even know, Venetiaan sent Ruutel a full page of economic-stimulus
> ideas, appended with the qualifier, "not that i know anything! my
> country's got 21.7% unemployment! :("
>
> Upon receiving Venetiaan's e-mail, Ruutel sent him an instant
> message about a monetary-unit conversion-program download he had seen.
>
> "We ended up chatting for almost an hour," Ruutel said. "Nothing
> important, just, 'What's your main export? I have this much arable
> land, how about you?' That sort of thing."
:
> Said Ruutel, "We added each other to our MSN Messenger Friends
> lists and started forwarding each other funny internal memos. Arnold
> sent me an MP3 from his brother's kesco band, a traditional form of
> Surinamese music. Then I sent him a PayPal payment for just two kroon
> and said I was donating my budget surplus. We had a good laugh over
> that one."
--
Gerald Oskoboiny <
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http://impressive.net/people/gerald/