# Memo to Iranian government, re: 300 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 16, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212 "2007-03-16T16:02:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/21 "2007-03-16T20:21:08Z")
[QUOTE=Andrew Bird] Or the sound on my post flying over your head. [/QUOTE] Any post that ends with “Have fun being unemployed, dumbass” isn’t flying anywhere. It pretty much falls in with a thud and lies there stinking until it dies. And I don’t see why the Iranians would care about Persians. I can’t imagine that 300 Greeks couldn’t just kick their way through an army of Persians unless they were all drunk on retsina and ouzo. The Greeks, that is; not the cats. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/22 "2007-03-16T20:46:17Z")
Glad you made the qualification. Drunken cats are not to be messed with. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/23 "2007-03-16T20:51:58Z")
That’s ok, **Andy**. _I_ got it. I didn’t think it was funny, mind you, but I got it. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/24 "2007-03-16T20:53:57Z")
[QUOTE=Andrew Bird] Too bad there are no jobs in nuclear sector in Mongolia. Have fun being unemployed, dumbass. [/QUOTE] Persian New Year is next Tuesday, **Andrew Bird**. Don’t put off your shopping, now… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/25 "2007-03-16T21:13:47Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly] Iran might be geographically located near what was once the Persian Empire, but the present day Iranian regime has about as much in common with ancient Persia as a gold-chained, New Jersey born, Italian American has in common with a Roman Senator: Nothing. The first error here is acknowledging that Fundamentalist Iran resembles Persia in any meaningful way. [/QUOTE] Still, it’s the same country with the same language and the same or, rather, a lineally-descended culture. Just like China is still the same country it was in the time of Confucius. (Egypt, OTOH, is not, because the ancient Egyptian language and culture are extinct; modern Egypt is just another region in Greater Arabia.) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/26 "2007-03-16T21:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] You know, personally, up until this point I really thought of Iran as a great place full of people and leaders that do great things. Frankly, I was considering giving up my citizenship and boarding a plane over there next summer. Not only is it clean, safe, and with tons of opportunities for women, I also hear there are just oodles of jobs in the nuclear sector. But then I saw the 300 and now I don’t think I can think of Iran the same way. [/QUOTE] I was in the same boat until I saw the glistening lesbians. I checked my passport the minute I got home. I’m good to go. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/27 "2007-03-16T21:25:56Z")
Dude, yer, like, a DUDE. Lesbians, glistening or not, are uninterested in you and won’t even let you watch, unless you pay them, and I know you can’t afford it. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/28 "2007-03-17T03:45:27Z")
I heard about this from a friend today who, instead of “Iran,” used the word “Pakistan.” I ranted for a good few minutes about why Pakistan had about as much reason to bitch about 300 as Switzerland has to bitch about Pearl Harbor. Then I looked it up and saw it was an _Iranian_ official. That, at least, makes an ounce of sense. Of course, the fucking idiot needs to wake up and realize that Americans have a collective historical memory of about 12 minutes, as opposed to many Arabic cultures who actively and regularly invoke occurences as old as a five or six hundred years. Sometimes older, the stupid bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/29 "2007-03-17T05:21:42Z")
Oh come on, cut them some slack. It’s easy to not know where Persia is, all tucked away down there… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/30 "2007-03-17T07:58:12Z")
[QUOTE=Hung Mung] Of course, the fucking idiot needs to wake up and realize that Americans have a collective historical memory of about 12 minutes, as opposed to many Arabic cultures who actively and regularly invoke occurences as old as a five or six hundred years. Sometimes older, the stupid bastard. [/QUOTE] They are fairly good at stuff from five hundred years ago. Of course, stuff from 50 years ago - \*not so much. \* ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/31 "2007-03-17T08:01:12Z")
Well you know, it’s the policy of the Iranian government to never allow things to be swept under the rug. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/32 "2007-03-17T15:14:22Z")
At least Kazakhstan isn’t complaining this time around. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/33 "2007-03-17T15:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I was in the same boat until I saw the glistening lesbians. I checked my passport the minute I got home. I’m good to go. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Glistening lesbians? Forget Persia. Grab your passport, fly here to Bangkok and make it to Suzie Wong and Five Star bars for the nightly lesbian shows. THEY glisten, thanks to lots of body oil. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/34 "2007-03-17T15:41:39Z")
Am I the only one realize that no one in the Iranian government expects or desires any sort of reparation and such or even gives a damn about the response of the west to their protest? This is about team-building inside Iran, folks, nothing more. It’s an opportunity to further demonize the west among the soi-disant electorate of Iran. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/35 "2007-03-17T19:12:30Z")
Did the Iranians bitch about that Oliver Stone Alexander the Great movie? Because there would be an opportunity for bridge-building. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/36 "2007-03-17T22:10:50Z")
Wait a minute. I thought Persians were cats. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/37 "2007-03-17T22:30:00Z")
That joke was funnier [yesterday](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8364480&postcount=21), **Thudlow**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/38 "2007-03-17T22:39:28Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] That joke was funnier [yesterday](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8364480&postcount=21), **Thudlow**. 😃 [/QUOTE] I hate when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/39 "2007-03-18T00:19:20Z")
I’m more annoyed at the idiots who keep calling up the Science Center and refuse to believe us when we tell them we’re NOT showing _300_ at the Omnimax. I don’t mind them asking, but the ones who will NOT believe us just piss me off. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-iranian-government-re-300/396212/40 "2007-03-18T00:55:20Z")
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