Bandra East/ 9th Moharam Nakhas

Time: 02/26/2006 6:48 AM Visits: 84

The Zuljana

This is the replica of Hazrat Imams warrior horse and you can barely see his face , he is considered auspicious , people place flowers on him and feed him..  he will be a part of most of the procession ..of Moharam held everywhere in India.

update

9 moharam in Nakhas Lucknow

last night two guys who were from Mumbai, got into a spat with me for shooting pictures at the Juloos , almost insinuating that I sold pictures of Moharam.

But Munna,Shahids brother put them in their place..

This morning they apologised to me at the Nakhas Ashura Juloos, I told them nothing hurt me more than the selling picture thought, I told them in my pedestrian language , who cares a fuck for shia blood , or shia events, the only thing that people want pictures is of Naga lings , even that I gave free on my web sites..

I am not into shooting porn or nudes, but this is the problem with peoples minds and these guys were from Lokandwala Andheri…

Today was the Ashura Juloos that began at 10.30 am , I met a French photographer Laurent  Salesse  who had arrived to Lucknow to shoot the Ashura Juloos,, I took him to my in laws house , he shot  my in laws ,house Imambara, we were together till the Juloos , with alams, zanjir zani,kama zani , reached Talkatora cemetry, than I lost him, there was another French photographer Philipe , his camera was stolen at the Ardh Kumbh , a Minolta digital Slr, he was shooting Moharam with a plastic point and shoot..

It hurts , I am a photographers best friend, specially foreigners , whom I help , as and when I meet them.

Last evening there was a videographer , I came to know his name later , a dumb head called Papu, I accidently climbed a platform from where he was shooting the juloos ,this commercial shit head, lashed me for spoiling his frame, I thought of using the filthiest language but kept myself under control, he knew I was a Shia like him, or unlike him, as my wound was still bleeding from my forehead..

I have shot a lot of pictures, the burial of the Tazias  at Talkatora, this morning at the house my mother in law removed all the Tazias, there was a Alvidai Majlis, farewell to the Imam, took me back to my childhood spent a my maternal grandmothers house at Pata Nala..

the melody of the age old matams

Eh Shiaon ke mehmaan khuda hafiz o nazir .

I will post the words from my mother in laws 60 year old Biyas , where all this written for posterity.

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Moharam Bandra East Juloos

: 02/26/2006 6:42 AM Visits: 182

The Namaaz

This is a section that is in a lane  is a playground cum a Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir .. in the playground the kids are busy decorating the alams ..while the prayers  the chant of Om continues in the temple undisturbed , the sounding of the temple bells .. this puja is known as the Arti.
On the other hand as soon as the namaaz gets over a small majlis is recited by the Maulana who led the prayers .. when this gets over the procession begins with the Zuljana the alams and the taboots..  this will wind its way when on the other side  meeting at the place where Maulana Janab Hasan Karari finishes his discourse and the scourging will begin..

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Moharam Bandra East Juloos

I have misplaced his picture … will have to search among my Cds

02/26/2006 5:38 AM Visits: 129

The Maulana Janab Hasnain Karari

This Maulana is my favorite Janab Hasnain Karari , keeps his discourse,to the point recites the majlis at Bandra east ,he was quite hurt with the bombings at Samarrah , he was critical about the American mishandling of the situation,  he was also in the fore front at the Protest Rally at Kaisar Bagh against the Cartoons of the Holy Prophet,..before he sits on the mimber a few reciters of Nohas preceede him with their renditions , the place from where he is reciting is the middle of a vehicular road.. it is swamped with people in black clothes, women, children, a procession that is coming from the other end of the road , when the majlis ends , people start running for safety and here the scourging is too powerful and right left centre only flying blades.. kama or forehead cutting, after all that ends the Busheri matam takes place a matam in a ring formation  which moves in circular motion.. the words are in Persian.. 
Here I must mention the local Mumbai police are exemplary  I was impressed with an Inspector Shiraz Shaikh who immediately removed his cap the moment the Maulana began the elegy called Massaib.. the sad events on 10 day of The Imams Martyrdom..Later after the Majlis I thanked him for this gesture  he was from the Sunnie community. 

 Even the Shiv Sena the force of the Marathas under the erstwhile leader Hon Bala Saheb Thackeray see that no mischief or disturbance is created by evil elements, this time the Sunni scholars too took part in reciting in the praise of Hazrat Imam Husain, at this important juloos of Bandra East in its 17 th year.

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Finale Matam e Hussain

Time: 03/09/2006 5:01 AM Visits: 520

Matam e Hussain

This crippled burnt guy is a from the Sunni community he begs for a living but year after year he cuts himself with blades tied to strings as he cannot hold the handle because of his disability and stumps for the end of his limbs.. its tough and this too is at the Guru Nanak Park juloos that has at snails pace reached Almeida Park  the little guy at the corner is another famous scourger and almost looks like a foreigner,,
And I would be a lousy journalist I have no time to ask questions,names or any other detail .. the event is so intense.

this ends another segment of my Buzznet photo gallery imported to Word Press…my last post I leave this cybercafe at Aminabad to rush home to Nakhas…

Filed under: Uncategorized , moharam

Alam Abbas Guru Nanak Park Bandra

Time: 03/09/2006 4:42 AM Visits: 93

Alam Abbas

This is the Alam of Hazrat Abbas at Guru Nanak Park Juloos and it is shot with the help of my SB 800 nikon Flash.. the awful irony is all Moharram events take place after Maghrib or late evening . most of them are indoors  flash pictures give a very plasticky feel.. ..

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Bandra Guru Nanak Park Juloos

Time: 03/09/2006 3:45 AM Visits: 93

Zuljana Guru Nanak Park

This is a different Juloos its called the Guru Nanak Park Juloos as it starts from there hosted by the Vazir family they stay in a building called Bashiron and after a majlis and a Busheri Matam this juloos with the alam moves towards the Almeida Park  from there to Hill Road to St Peters Road , finally ends at Bandra Shia Khoja Masjid..I shot some pictures and took a Rizvi family home and aborted the sequence of scourging and forhead cutting opposite the mosque.
The Zuljana too was uncontrollable as the guys did not know how to handle him..its only when Mamdi who is holding the Zuljana came in did he quieten down.. this time they had not asked Mamdi to decorate the Zuljana a lot of petty politics takes place in religious events too..

Filed under: Uncategorized , moharam

Why does the Moon divide our Idd..

Time: 03/09/2006 3:21 AM Visits: 99

Sakina..Hai Sakina

This is the daughter of Munna who says Namaaz on fire , he takes her every where to the juloos to show the way Bibi Sakina the 4 year old daughter of Imam Hussain was treated by the Yazidi hoodlums ..beaten, chained manacled  driven like slaves and animals from Karbala to Yazids court in Damascus..
 She died in prison in Damascus..  her grave is venerated and revered..and she is famous for Mashke Sakina ..her water pouch that her uncle Hazrat Abbas carried with him to get water from the Euphrates blocked by Yazids army and how his end came and his Alam always has the Mashke Sakina round its neck.
This is shot at the Guru Nanak Park Juloos that begins here and ends at the  BandraKhoja Shia Mosque.

update

a mualana in his majlis was saying that the majority community has lot of problems with our shedding blood, and what not , he said that Imam Hussain was killed more inhumanely than the goats we sacrifice during  Bakra Idd..honestly Bakr Idd  has been hijacked by the newly rich, instead of sacrificing animals ostentatiosly why dont they keep the extra wealth for education,the Muslim child has no future without education, the basic, the computer, including learning some craft that can hjelp you on a rainy day too.

But we are a leaderless community , this is undeniable, our so called leaders are lining the walls of their earthly mansions, they want us to be divided even on sighting of the moon.. let us atleast on one day stand united in Namaz on Idd day atleast … let us show the world yes on Ramzan Idd we are Muslims, Moharam we are Shias  Bara Wafat we are Sunnis…

on Xmas, Valentines day, New Years Day we are incorruptibly human..

Muslims dare not celebrate Rakhi it would dent their inherent libidinous , macho image…to some women who want them as brothers…from the other communities of course.

Filed under: Uncategorized , bibi sakina, moharam

Bandra Bazar Road Juloos

Time: 03/07/2006 7:50 AM Visits: 106

Back Again

He was actually trying to get a grip on the zanjeer  you dont scourge with the handle, the claws of the hand go through the chains and the handle is redundant.. veterans use the knucle duster as a handle a far better hold.. the handle is paper light..but this guy has picked up the tricks from his dad ,,unlikely pehaps from some veteran himself  I was really impressed.. only rose water will be applied no septic shot, no ointment..

I had to take antibiotics as my sugar level had gone haywire and I have completely stopped walking at Carter Road.

Filed under: Uncategorized , bandra bazar road, moharam

Bndra Bazar Road Juloos

Time: 03/07/2006 7:35 AM Visits: 112

A Painless Pause.

He has done his thing , I saw his back and shot this picture.

 I can assure you all this hurts  hurts real bad , you go on doing it, and this is not a trance, no music, only the chant of Ya Ali Ya Ali..  the crowd too in chorus pepping them on..
 As mentioned this all at Bandra Bazzar road opposite the Khoja Shia Mosque..

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Athvi Kama Zani Kazmain

Time: 04/11/2006 10:04 PM Visits: 65

Reopening the Wound

fresh ice packs were placed on my head and you can see the blood gushing forth from beneath the earlier bandage..

Filed under: Uncategorized , Athvi, kama zani, kazmain

Kamazani Athvi Kazmain

Time: 04/11/2006 9:59 PM Visits: 62

rebandaged

the bleeding did not stop and a kindly gentleman an expert in kama took over and began to rebandage me again..

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Athvi Lucknow

Time: 04/11/2006 9:50 PM Visits: 76

A pensive pause

My wife was at Nakhas so she was informed by someone and she fainted when she heard that I had lost lot of blood and my bleeding would not stop.. and she could have not come here as all vehicular traffic was off the roads in old lucknow..entering Kazmain

Filed under: Uncategorized , Athvi, photographerno1

Time: 04/11/2006 9:43 PM Visits: 72

Me and The Helping Hands

one of the  gentleman that did the cleaning up and bandaging..picture shot by guddu ..

Filed under: Uncategorized , Athvi, guddu, kazmain, photographerno1

Astin Sher Ne Ulti Ke Zamana Ulta

Time: 04/11/2006 9:39 PM Visits: 149

All Cleaned up

I am thoroughly cleaned up by the anjuman guys and people from the surrounding houses..

UPDATE

when I was a kid I remember my mom, my maternal grandmother Nazmi Begum pata nala, imliwali galli thwai tola , on this day of 8th Moharam and the quintessential noha that lives in todays generation too

gule ye shaam ke laskhkar mein alamdar aye

rasta rokte yeh shimr sitamgar aye

sher pyasa hai tarai ki taraf jata hai

aasti sher ne ulti ke zamana ulta

i will take the actual words from my wife and post it..

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Tumhe Gussa Kyon Aata Hai

The porous bandage were not stopping the blood and ice packs  rose water and somebodys hanky was tied on my forehead..picture shot by guddu…

 

 

Hame khoon bahana ata hain

Moulah Akka Hussain par ansu bahana ata hai

Tumhe es bat par kyon gussa ata hai

hum duniya k batate hain

ke Moulah ke ghame se koie gham bada nahi

humko ise se jeena aata hain

abbas ka alam.. mashke sakina ban jata hai

ali asghar  ke sukhe hont se ek teer ka bhi dil machal jata hai

ali akbar ki barchi mein zainab ka ghar lut jata hai

abbas ke kate hathon par waqt bhi hichkiyan lagata hai

samandar bhi soch mein pad jata hai

wafa ki maujon ko khoon ka rang yaad aata hai

hum shia hain

hussaini hain

moulaiee hain

karbaliee hain

hindustani shia

hame dekh kar

hamara padosi  kya

hamara dushman  bhi

watan parast ban jata hai

har quam pukaregi

hamare hain hussain

husainiyat thy name is humanity

ek aman ka jhanda lehrata hai

shayad isi liye

tumhe ham ko dekh kar gussa aata hi..

my new poem..

i am not posting my lucknow pictures , i am not newsworthy , i shall do this on my return to mumbai..

i am posting only at word press from here in lucknow.. not even on buzznet , bloggerspot or my homesite…my words are time measured rs 20 per hour..

Filed under: Uncategorized , Athvi, Firoze Shakir Shia poetry, hussainiyat, mashke sakina, photographerno1

Dont Ask Me Why Am I A Shia

I dont need to argue like a Mullah , to talk about Shiasm, Shiasm is not a Religion as propounded by the spirtual pedant laid back creatures on the comforts of  a cyberntic couch.

Shiasim is a way of life..

Motherhood is the source of the River of Tears ,streams unveiling our Faith.

Hussain was not a Shia or a  Sunni, he was not a Wahabbi, living in the reflection of borrowed light , he was Light bringing  Islam of that Time the Yazidiyat Era ,  out of Darkness ..

Imagine for a single moment , not a single Mullah will ever tell you this, if whatever their reasons for hating Imam Hussain, imagine the man living in that era , loving his life and family.. what would they have done to a mere mortal.. Hussain was not mere mortal.. imagine transport yourself to Karbala you Shia Site Guys ..than ask

Why Karbala…

Fear does strange things to unstrange people..the forces that took up the cry to wipe out the Holy Prophets seed.. all the Mullahs of that time with locks on their consciousness.. where were they not hunting wild game…

Or perhaps Hussain and his family was Wild Game

I tell you all you guys out there Saddam Hussain had a very tame , domesticated death, I agree hoodlums killed him, I agree he was taunted in Death, he held the Koran in one Hand …every sinner holds it one day…

where was his other hand tell me …

it was certainly not holding Gods hand Was It…

Koran in one Hand and the Ahle Bait in the other Hand is True Islam for me..

Dont ever ask me Why Am I  a Shia or a Shia Thug as an American Lady who calls me this…excuse the  derogatory copulative word but it is for shit heads only…

Hussain is a name for Humanity…

Har Quam Pukaregi Hamare Hain Hussain.

This suffices me …

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picture shot at hussain tekri chehlum, yes i shoot shia women..i shoot my faith as i see it..universal shia  family that i belong to by default..

Time: 11/15/2005 6:08 AM Visits: 76

Matam Hussain Tekri Jaorah

This is a poor family and they are doing matam, grief on the Martyrdom of Imam   Hussain…  this is what fascinates me ,, these are my candid shots…  little children will be doing matam, my niece will be doing it to one day in Kazhakistan, some traditions dont die not even after 1400 yrs,,,

Filed under: Uncategorized , chehlum, hussain tekri jaorah, saddam hussain, shiaism

Chehlum in Hussain Tekri Jaorah

11/15/2005 5:57 AM Visits: 56

On The Roof Top Hussain Tekri Jaorah

These were kids watching the Chelum Procession… I try to shoot religion through the innocence of childrens eyes.

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Chehlum in Hussain Tekri Jaorah

11/15/2005 5:47 AM Visits: 87

The Proccession Hussain Tekri Jaorah

This is the Chehlum Procession..  the Standards of Hazrat Imam  Hussains Army… 72 in number… all this is recreated to teach the kids the history that has been part of their faith..

 Tabarah too which means cursing the killers of Hazrat Imam Hussain.

greenvelvet: 11/15/2005 7:09 AM Is this in Hyderabad, Luckhnow or Karachi???

photographerno1: 11/15/2005 7:40 AM this is hussaintekri jaorah madhya pradesh india. i am a indian muslim .. shia,, i have shot lucknow, hyderabad..i will skip karachi/ i dont want to be shot.. not in pakistan… as a muslim for my beliefs..or my unbeliefs.. allh ho akbar.

Filed under: Uncategorized , allah ho akbar, chehlum, hussain tekri jaorah, tabarah

Azadari E Hussain Old Lucknow

11/15/2005 5:17 AM Visits: 103

challa 4 hussain tekri jaorah

And this ends the challa series  there was a Spanish couple that were shooting all this,, I have taken their pictures too and my brothers second wife of Kazakhistan origin  has  a daughter ,who has my nose I am told,  I have baptised her Miss Photogtographe no1 of Buzznet she is premature and has a liver condition so she will come to Mumbai to be treated. my brothers  Kazhakstani wife is a musician,, his first wife is a historian..My first wife is a housewife.. I am not going to fill any more blank spaces,, destiny will do what it has to do..I am destinys child.

update

Sitting here at the cybercafe I can hear  Nohas spreading the pain of Hussain dessiminating age old Lucknowi cultural heritage finding its way into the hearts all linked to singular moment in Old Lucknow called Azadari E Hussain..

Even little kids are given an opportunity to recite their stuff this is what makes kids adults , aping their fathers , translating pain..yes indeed for a Shia Moharam is not about a mournful month but a month to reinvigorate the soul, remove the dust of materialism, all our worldly pain leading into the ocean of a prismatic clarity ,  Hussain a single Word ..Pressed in our consciousness  much before we were born, much before our parents were born.

I can tell you one thing everywhere in the world irrespective of our cultural difference, environmental diversity , one thought stands at the helm, a single Man who took on Yazidiyat.. with blood of the Holy Prophet running in his veins, the ancestral blood of the family of Abu Talib the blood of the Lion of Khyber ..a lion of all times Hazrat Ali ibne Abu Talib.

Hussain on on his steed  Zuljana carried the Promise of his Grandfather The Holy Prophet ..of quenching our thirst even if it meant to giving his head to Yazid but not his hand…

Shah Ast Hussain Badshah Ast Hussain… the beginning to the beginning of a new dawn in Islam…

Ya Hussain

Ya Hussain..

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Filed under: Uncategorized , azadari e hussain, ghame hussain, holy prophet, hussain tekri jaorah, lucknow, ya hussain

Shia Pilgrims Progress

I have reached Lucknow this morning , by the Pushpak Expess.. my mother in law Wassim Abbas my brother in law Mohomed Arif of Diamond Cassettes , had come to download me and my wife to the city of my birth..right clicked to a coolie who wanted a bomb to carry a few belongings of ours, reason I had removed my tshirt bare breasted only a shawl to brave the Lucknowi winter,we two hopped a cycle rickshah, mom in law and Mohomed Arif would come on the bike, I could not stop clicking pictures of street scenes.

On the train to I met some pretty Hijdas , first they took a promise that I would not show their pictures to other Hijdas as they had a fight with their Guru and were begging on the train without the Gurus knowledge, Rupa, Reshma and Kaajal, this is the begging variety Hijdas from Kanpur.. I will of course break a part of this promise as on my return after Ashura upload them on my homesite .

So God gives me pictorial moments , also an old beggar lady Sarlabai who I had shot last December too, and a  sadhu minstrel…too.

When I disembarked from the ricksha, there was a huge crowd at Nakhas Shia College listening to the Majlis of eminent Maulana Agha Roohie Sab..narrating the sorrows of Karbala and the Martyrdom of Ali Asghar..

I washed am at the cyber cafe of a young interesting lad Askari Hassan.. most of the time I will be entombed in one of his cubicles..

I will once wife gets ready go  to pay my salutations at Dargah Hazrat Abbas that has been part of my living life from birth, to marriage , to my son Asif Shakirs marriage  and whatever will unfold in later times…

picture is of a lady at hussain tekri during chehlum..

Time: 11/15/2005 4:50 AM Visits: 68

all alone..hussaintekri jaorah

This was a mighty troubled lady and much must have been her loss
and she was alone…and woman at the end of the day is always alone..and clings to whatever straw she can hold on..

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Filed under: Uncategorized , chehlum, diamond cassettes, hijdas, hussain tekri jaorah, lucknow, mohomed arif diamond cassettes

This You Have To Feature

yes
this you have to feature
on the soul of man
the turner road traffic boy
naked dirty dishevelled peter pan
holding on to a moving rickshah
as fast as he can
from his mothers womb
to a tomb of man
a salty tear drop
in a moments life span
his lunch
stomach restraunt
the garbage can
from the fire
into the frying pan
this poem
inscribed
to my cybernetic fan
a blog
a goddess
the best of suzanne.

i am just getting ready to go, downloaded the pictures from my nikon d 70 to the comp, saw bens love for the shia thug and this poem i dedicate it to him once again.. my soul mate in philly…

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Farewell Friends Foes and Favorites

I leave for Lucknow tomorrow early morning tro participate and shoot Moharam , Ashura , will be back in a few days take care.
This picture was shot by Surendra Shreshta of Colorama …

This is a Featured Photo

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headphonic: 01/23/2007 9:41 AM This guy is awesome! Good luck on your shoot. [delete] commentatorno1: 01/23/2007 12:16 PM you mean the guy who shot the picture , head phonic… thank you all at buzznet , this is one feature i dont feel like taking credit..i dedicate this to buzzbot whose amorphous androgynous cock in a vaginal trap got caught , circumsised in short…to make him a shia thug , his destruction through a blog goddess i plot,, now for god sake auntie aby dont open your mouth and say suck what… buzzbots cock is tumescent and hot…

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Chehlum Hussain Tekri Jaorah

The Challah Man hussaintekri jaorah

I take you guys to Hussaintekri at Jaorah,near Ratlam Madhya Pradesh India.

This is a Shia religious shrine run by the Sunnis
 houses the replicas of the tombs of the Ahle Bait or Family of the Holy Prophet.. also known as Panjetan Pak..or the Holy Five..They are The Holy Prophet,His Daughter Fatima,His son in lawAli.and Their Children Hassan and Hussain.
This is a tremendously revered Shrine  has all the mentally disturbed, the troubled, the losers,  all kinds of sickness body and mind are said to be cured..

I went for Chelum to shoot pictures..Chelum is the 40th day.. of the Martyrdom of ImamHussain..  the place is crowded..mass of humanity..
Challas are strings you tie for a wish and when the wish is fulfilled you feed the poor or whatever you deem fit.. some lock their wishes.. some lock themselves to the Shrine with chains.. and is a scary place,,Iwill try to show through pictures.. this was what I had posted when I joined Buzznet and it gives me a feeling of deja vue.. the Sunni guy  Ali Baumran..who hassled me nonetheless and I met Yorrik who stood by me ..in my first shia bashing …at buzznet…

Ali bum ran has not been seen or heard on Buzznet…

update

this is my last post tonite at word press , tomorrow you will not have  rainfall of blogs from my end i leave to shoot ashura in lucknow…good night.

 

Filed under: Uncategorized , chehlum, hussain tekri jaorah

Moharam In Kolkatta

11/14/2005 5:00 AM Visits: 276

walking barefeet on snow..moharram in kolkatta

my last post on this series of moharram in kolkatta .. this was all on the 10th of moharram or ashura.. on the same day in the night i move out of kolkatta.. the chelum or the 40th day i went to hussaintekri jaorah..  i had decided to walk barefeet on snow in kargil ladakh before i came to buzznet this is my mannat.. unless the almighty decides differently and i end up in some other place  it is quite a coincidence that i have been dreaming snow for past month and a half…

update

i did no go to ladakh instead did my ashura in mumbai last year..

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Moharam In Mumbai Kurla

Time: 11/06/2005 7:33 AM Visits: 193

zanjeer matam /Kurla Mumbai

this is not kaiser bagh but on the streets of kurla.. you can see the impact of the blades..  the backs.. i shot this in the night so .. its tough and you imagine my proximity and how close i am i dont use tele lenses not for such scenes,, my normal lens is 20 mm… i have not had my lunch.. no appetite i will go home  this time i will cool off for some time…

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ooo: 11/06/2005 7:50 AM Wow. And I thought playing uno was an exciting Saturday night! jonny: 11/06/2005 8:24 AM haribol!   csorba: 11/06/2005 9:49 AM holy shit! funksteena: 11/06/2005 11:16 AM what’s the reason for this? friartuck: 11/06/2005 3:35 PM hardcore

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