Sunday, March 14, 2010

Cambodia

Mistakenly thought by many to be the subject of the Dead Kennedys song "Holiday in Cambodia" (actually written about Cambodia, NH, a bedroom community of about 34,000 residents), Cambodia is a darling little southeast Asian country nestled comfortably in the crook of Vietnam. The national language is Khmer, which I believe is Khmer for "totally unpronounceable." The capital is Phnom Penh, as in:

"Hey, where are you from?"
"Phnom Penh."
"Gesundheit."

Cambodia's ties to the United States consist mainly of the fact that back during the seventies it became of the utmost strategic importance that we go set their children on fire.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game. And the commies. Mostly the commies."

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