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# <a href='http://www.theiraqiinformationminister.com' target='_blank'>www.theiraqiinformationminister.com</a>
This site is very cool, specially the
'latest news' and the 'where is him' pages,

I love the OIL-MEMBER picture

www.theiraqiinformationminister.com
(teresita, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 10:51, archived)
# Huzzah it's back!
Inexplicably it went down after Reuters ran a story on it...
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 10:52, archived)
# aren't you thinking of the other one?
www.welovethe etc?
(faster, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 10:54, archived)
# Oh
fair enough.
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 11:07, archived)
# Hm
similar but different to www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com - which, according to Yahoo News, was getting 4000 hits a SECOND over the weekend... before it went down through overload!
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 10:53, archived)
# bloody hell
that's a lot of hits
(faster, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 10:55, archived)
# is this the replacement for welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com?
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 10:53, archived)
# Nah
that's coming back on Saturday apparently, with merchandising and everything - you too can now own a mug with "god shall burn their stomachs in hell" emblazoned across it!

Apparently the guy who made it only did so as a gag for his mates - caught unawares is an understatement.

uk.news.yahoo.com/030412/80/dxlry.html
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 11:02, archived)
# there's some kind of moral behind that
but i'll be boggled if i know what it is.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 11:03, archived)
# Moral?
more likely proof of how viral marketing works - not that we doubt it's power, it's how our shit gets everywhere!
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 11:04, archived)
# "Don't have mates"
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 11:05, archived)
# "remember your mates have mates"
"and their mates have mates"
"and their mates have mates"

6 degrees of distribution, or something.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 11:14, archived)
# which is
complete bollocks, see snopes for more info..
(I helped save b3ta! munkt0n, Mon 14 Apr 2003, 11:17, archived)