Conjoined Twins Die During Separation Surgery

[Drake Tungsten]

Well, on the plus side, there's 2 less lawyers in the world now.

[DRoseDARs]

I really want to laugh at that, Ixnay. Maybe in a few days...

But for now,

[Dis]

Originally posted by ixnay
Well, on the plus side, there's 2 less lawyers in the world now.

I don't get it?

I hate it when I don't get jokes.

are these 2 ladies lawyers? That seems highly unlikely for two main reasons. First they are muslim women living in a fairly strict muslim country. second their condition would prevent them from being effective lawyers.

[ixnay]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/07/08/conjoined.twins/index.html

The 29-year-old twins -- both law graduates -- had two distinct brains,

http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.carson13jun13,0,1661456.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

Both went to law school because Ladan wanted to, but Laleh has said she wants to be a journalist.

This could make an interesting sitcom, too:

Laleh is a no-holds barred district attorney, out to convict at whatever cost!

Ladan is a world-renowned defense attorney, who always gets her client off!

Watch Motion to Separate, this fall on FOX!

[DRoseDARs]

Ok, that one's better...

[Skanky Burns]

Its strange. Ix has been posting on the SomethingAwful forums for some time now, but he has not been influenced by their sense of humour yet.

[DRoseDARs]

Diss, the first joke was based on a line from Shakespeare's play Henry VI part 2.

And it really isn't unlikely that these two Iranian women were "lawyers." There are plenty of places in the Islamic world were women are not suppressed and denied the same opportunities as men.

I can't recall the author's name (I'll have to dig the book out) but she spent several years travelling throughout the Islamic world to discover what life was REALLY like for women. She found that in many places they enjoy a great deal of what we Westerners think is denied them. Even in Iran, women are given much in a "Seperate but Equal" society. They've fought long and hard to get what they deserve. That's just one short visit she made.

Iran, Sudan*, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan (King Hussein (no relation) and Queen Noor), Saudia Arabia are all places she visited. She describes how she saw both ends of the spectrum in terms of the living conditions for women.

Saudia Arabia sounded a LOT of alarms for her...no suprise there. They've been exporting an extremely intolerant view of Islam that has spread like a disease throughout the Islamic world. That view, and all it entails, would make it difficult for the Bijani sisters to work as lawyers. Palestine used to have one of the most liberal and progressive universities in the Islamic world. That time has since past thanks to Saudia Arabia's exportation of bastardized Islam. In Sudan* women are doing ok, but again SA extends it's tentacles. Egypt, like Palestine, has suffered thanks to SA. Jordan seems to be more distant, but not immune, to the siren song of extremism. The King and Queen have worked very hard to improve their country after "forget the person's government position" had made a mess of things with the people.

Iran seems to be the best place to be a Muslim women. Although USAmericans detest "Seperate but Equal" systems, in Iran it works to great advantage for women. It may very well be the stepping stone towards true modernization and liberty in Islam. Musilm women are showing they really can doing anything the men can do (much to the chagrin of hardliners) and that they are a force to be reckoned with. Women fought alongside the men to overthrow the Shah to install the Ayatollah as leader. And it was the Ayatollah who help set in motion the progress Iranian women enjoy...because it was women who influenced him to help.

If President Jr. is serious about helping moderates in Iran against the hardliners, he'd better not screw up. The liberties women have there now are not certain. The men and women who are fighting without violence to bring liberty to Iran stand to lose everything if Bush isn't careful. Threatening the hardliner government of Iran wasn't a helpful thing to do...

*I can't remember exactly which African nation-not-Egypt she visited, so Sudan will have to do until I find that book.

[muxec]

It's better to die than live like they did.

[Az]

How the **** didn't they see that their brains were fused on MRI? how didn't they know they were fused by psychology? AFAIk, when brains are fused, people sense each other's feelings. ( spooky, really.)

[RGBVideo]

So it goes.

I lost my twin, and now I think about dying all the time.

Kind of funny, huh? ;`(

Do you think that it's what your sibling would've hoped for?

[Q Classic]

Watch Motion to Separate, this fall on FOX

careful, it's just tasteless enough that fox migt do it...

[mrmitchell]

I think it will be more of a "When Heartwarming Operations Go Bad" kind of special.

[ixnay]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Its strange. Ix has been posting on the SomethingAwful forums for some time now, but he has not been influenced by their sense of humour yet.

Yeah, after a year you would really think I'd start picking up on that.

[Proteus_MST]

So instead of at least one of them living a separate Life, both of them will never see the light of the day.

Truely sad

[Provost Harrison]

It was a risky operation and alas it didn't work out...a shame as the world was listening and hoping for a good result, but it wasn't to be...