Sick donkeys were first bioweapons


	Sick donkeys were first bioweapons

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12-3-2007 1:01 AM

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12-3-2007 11:05 AM

BartendingBear

I guess Monty Python wasn't joking when the French threw a cow with a catapult at the English in "Holy Grail".

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