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Friday
August 31, 2001

* Watered down

Buddy joon, you call this watered down stuff poetry!? ["Pedar Joon"] Please.... gimmi a break .... check this out:

Einstein was not a handsom fellow
nobody ever called him AL
he had a long mustach to pull on it was yellow
I don`t believe he ever had a gal
one thing he missed out in his theory
of time space and relativity
is something that makes it very clear he
was never gonna score like you and me
he didn`t know about ``quark, strangeness and charm``

Chaakkeram....

Farshid

* Beautiful

What beautiful pictures. ["After 16 years"] I think I will show them to all those who ask what Iran is like.

Iran Javid Fulton

* Jinxed

Dear Mahyar,

I am writing this letter about 10 minutes after I sneezed. I started typing it right after my sneeze, but my computer crashed! At the end of your cute article ["Avoiding responsibility"], you are asking: "give me a break."

Well, the probability of you getting a "break" in this matter (being that you are Iranian born in the latter half of the 20th century) is minimal because my ugly cousin has "eye-hit" (jinxed) you! So, deal with it as you eat "tough cookies," it's the "accidentally determined" life of a scientist! :-)

Rumi says:

Paay-e estedlaaliaan choobin bovad

Paay-e choobin sakht bi-tamkin bovad

[The legs of reason are wooden

very hard and inflexible.]

Sohrab Sepehri says:

Cheshmhaa raa baayad shost

joor-e digar baayad deed

[Our eyes must be washed

for a different kind of vision.]

OOPS, another sneeze!

Bye.

Moji Agha

* Can't agree more

Dear Nader,

I read your note "We the problem" in Iranian.com today. I can not agree with you more. I am not sure if you can read in Persian! If you can, I refer you to an article of mine that has been published in the latest issue of the journal "Science and Society" under the title of "Homogeneity of the People and Their Government". (senkhiyat-e hokoomat haa va mellat haa)

I have discussed the same idea as yours in more detail. If you are interested and need more information, I will be happy to provide it for you.

So long,

Mahvash Shahegh

* Not backed up

Hi Mr. Kaveh Ahangar, ["By the sword"]

Once again thanks for your reply. My inital goal was to refute your original attempt to revision history, and I have achieved that. You have failed to backup any of your claims with proof. I'm not going to divert into fifty other topics because you can't backup your claim. Here is some nice poetry by Hazrat Ferdowsi. Read it and enjoy, hopefully someday you will be less hateful.

Just some help on the way:

nabi = Prophet Muhammad
wasi / heidar = Imam Ali
ahle beyt = Prophet's family

Corr Chris

* Iranian girls: Best

Cyrus my beautiful brother, well done mate, seriously well done... ["Real Iranian girls?"]

Well u know what Cyrus??? I fell in love with an Iranian girl soooooooooooooooooooo badly, sooooooooooooo badly, and she loved me too. But I don't know what happened; she left me. I wrote something that really hurt her, but seriously I didn't mean to write that so she just left me. But I still love her sooooooooooooooooo bad Cyrus, I can't sleep, I can't eat, it's very hard Cyrus.

About me, I'm 26-years old, born & raised in Australia with Turkish parents, and I fell in love with Persian people since the age of 15, and will love them for the rest of my life. As you said Cyrus the real girls are the Iranians. And why do you think I want to get married to an Iranian girl? They are the best. PERSIANS R THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ON EARTH.

Anyway Cyrus, my beautiful friend & brother, take care & look after your self, see ya.

Aytural Fil

* Wrong on Googoosh

I am writing this note regarding to your recent online contest ["GoogooshMusic.com"]. There are two questions that are misleading and now by putting out your correct version of the answers online, it made them WRONG and even more misleading.

I am referring to the contest's question #2 & #8. Per your own Googoosh biography, Googoosh was born on 15th of Ordibehest in Tehran. Question number 2 is about her astrological sign, and 15th of Ordibehesht is Taurus. First of all, Taurus is not one of the choices to answer, and your answer list says she was born with Aquarius sign.

Now about question #8, per your biography, she was born in Tehran. But your answer list says that she was born in Sarab. How many more errors are in your questions and answers? I am not sure. This simply shows your incompetency in creating this contest and not being honest with Googoosh's fans.

It is OK to make mistakes, but it is not OK to hide it and not admitting it. For info, please refer to //www.googooshmusic.com/index1.htm

Regards,

Homeira

* Green Card winner

I AM LOOKING FOR A VOLUNTEER OR ORGANIZATION ANYWHERE IN U.S. WHO COULD HELP MY FRIEND TO SETTLE IN U.S. SHE HAS GOT GREEN CARD (LOTTERY 2000), BUT SHE DOESN'T KNOW ANYBODY THERE.

I DIRECT MY DESIRE TO YOU BECAUSE SHE LIVES IN IRAN AND IT IS BETTER FOR HER TO GET HELP FROM AN IRANIAN WHO CAN UNDERSTAND HER.

SHE IS VERY GOOD IN ENGLISH TOO. IF YOU WANT TO HELP OR YOU KNOW SOMEBODY WHO CAN HELP HER, PREFERABLY IN DALLAS OR SEATTLE, COULD YOU PLEASE CONTACT ME? I LIVE IN NORWAY, THAT IS EASIER FOR ME TO CONTACT YOU.

THANKS MY FRIEND.

SHAHNAZ

* Slavery

Dear Readers,

In light of the UN conference on racism and reparations for slavery, I would be interested to know what positions the learned men of Islam take, or what opinions the readers of iranian.com have. Clearly slavery was practiced and allowed in Islam.

Does anyone consider that 'Islam' owes anyone for the sins of slavery? If these governments claim to be the true followers of Mohammed, then ought then not share the guilt as well as the glory of Islam?

Thanks for your time,

David

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