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In Iraq, throwing a shoe at somebody is the ultimate insult.

a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/opinion/17kenney.html?partner=permalinkamp;exprod=permalink"So the question must be asked: What object, thrown, is the ultimate insult in other countries?/abr /blockquoteIn France, of course, it?s a waffle....br /br /Who?s to say why, exactly? Some say the waffle?s association with Belgium is enough to disgust any Frenchman. Others suggest it is its annoyingly spongy consistency....br /br /[In] Chad... hitting someone with a pair of pants is the highest form of insult....br /br /In the former Soviet Union it is not uncommon, especially among the savage Russian mafia, to throw a 68-ton American-made Abrams M1A1 tank....br /br /In Peru, meanwhile, people throw their voices as a form of insult...br /br /[In] Bhutan... people throw brightly colored tissue paper.../blockquoteSurely, you can think of some better examples. So many countries. And don't forget the 50 states.div class="blogger-post-footer"link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cache.blogads.com/373245138/feed.css" / script language="javascript" src="http://cache.blogads.com/373245138/feed.js"/scriptbr/a href=http://www.blogads.comblog advertising/a link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cache.blogads.com/372740391/feed.css" / script language="javascript" src="http://cache.blogads.com/372740391/feed.js"/scriptbr/a href=http://www.blogads.comblog advertising/a/div

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