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Egypt: More Dangerous than a Monkey..

Written byAmira Al Hussaini
Posted 14 February 2007 19:01 GMT

Egypt-based blogger Tom Gara is still in stitches over Hugo Chavez's description of George Bush Junior. “I really think that describing George Bush as “More dangerous than a monkey with a razor blade” is a perfect, beautifully descriptive analogy. Spot on. Anyone know if this is a common turn of phrase in Spanish? Never heard it before in English…I laughed out loud when I first read it,” he writes.

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