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Darf
Jun 6, 2011

You have quite a treasure there...
Why not get ten more and make it a nice round 50?

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Tuxedo Catfish
Mar 17, 2007

You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.
Then he'd have to split the take even thinner. Thieves don't work for free, you know!

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois
because something something gently caress china

Darf
Jun 6, 2011

You have quite a treasure there...

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Then he'd have to split the take even thinner. Thieves don't work for free, you know!

You can kill them all after the big haul! Duh.

Desperate Character
Apr 13, 2009
if you go over 40 thieves you're no longer considered a small business and have to pay extra taxes

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

Desperate Character posted:

if you go over 40 thieves you're no longer considered a small business and have to pay extra taxes

lol

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
holy gently caress

blueballed so bad

this was suupposed to be a punchline to a dad joke

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

Desperate Character posted:

if you go over 40 thieves you're no longer considered a small business and have to pay extra taxes

thanks obama

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
like

i go

I DUNNO OP WHY did ALI BABA ONLY HVAE 40 THIEVES??

and then you say, and it's a pun typcailly, in other words a real GRONEAR

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFZpzAlYNI

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
Because he wanted to dodge out of having to provide health insurance for his employees and the ACA employer mandate applies only to employers with 50 or more employees.

Gunky Junket
Oct 30, 2014

by Ralp
He had a choice of two options: a) forty thieves; or b) forty acres and a mule. Despite his choice, there was a rumour that Disney almost made "Ali Baba and the Forty Acres - ft. a Mule" just to be arseholes.

Iprazochrome
Nov 3, 2008
40 is 50 in base 8.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJZcq16zfFA

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

273423-X posted:

40 is 50 in base 8.

that is the stupidest loving thing i've ever heard bro

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

Darf posted:

Why not get ten more and make it a nice round 50?

what the gently caress how is 5 0 rounder than 40 they both have a zero at the end? and 4 is even a "round" number (divisible by 2) JEFC op

holy poo poo

holy... poo poo

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
like OP holy gently caress dude it's harder to imagine a number "rounder" than a number that can be divided by 20 2 times

TWENTY

times TWO

that is like literally the roundest number in existence

Woden
May 6, 2006
40 is Middle Eastern for lots, so just think of it as Ali Baba and the Fuckload of Thieves or something.

Digi_Kraken
Sep 4, 2011
Arabs dislike working in fives like civilized cultures, it's more exotic their way

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

Woden posted:

40 is Middle Eastern for lots, so just think of it as Ali Baba and the Fuckload of Thieves or something.

song jiang and his ten thousand thieves

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
and it rained for forty days and forty nights

and he went into the desert for forty days and forty nights

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
a precursor to the AMA

return0
Apr 11, 2007

nomadologique posted:

like OP holy gently caress dude it's harder to imagine a number "rounder" than a number that can be divided by 20 2 times

TWENTY

times TWO

that is like literally the roundest number in existence

babylonians say 60 is pretty round

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
ok i guess i'll take 60 but i still think it's a little behind 40

:colbert:

Coffee Mugshot
Jun 26, 2010

by Lowtax
he could remember 40 missions and names at a time, this was before technology op

SirEvelynTremble
Dec 25, 2013

FUCK YOU HITLER
STALINGRAD
ROFLMFAO
He originally had 50 thieves but Billy Baba his unscrupulous brother stole 10 of them

Coffee Mugshot
Jun 26, 2010

by Lowtax
I mean imagine if ali baba had linkedin

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

Voted Worst Mom posted:

he could remember 40 missions and names at a time, this was before technology op

100% sociology research shows ur circle of friends of lisimited to ~40 this ali bab guy was a freakin scientist of his age

PLEAS EDONT DISRESPECT THE SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF GOLDEN AGE ISLAM

racist

Chupe Raho Aurat
Jun 22, 2011

by Lowtax
More than 40 employees in the Middle East suggests you own an oil refinery.

Then America turns up to "help"

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

i'm almost certain there are more than 40 thieves from albania op

z0glin Warchief
May 16, 2007

nomadologique posted:

Woden posted:

40 is Middle Eastern for lots, so just think of it as Ali Baba and the Fuckload of Thieves or something.

song jiang and his ten thousand thieves

goemon and his eight million thieves

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
it's because ali baba and his 40 rapists failed to gain popularity within the target demo in the focus groups during an interest check, op

Womyn Capote
Jul 5, 2004


He didn't even "have" the thieves you illiterate pieces of poo poo. They were after him in the story which you DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO READ BEFORE YOU MADE YOURSELF LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE INTERNET.

Chupe Raho Aurat
Jun 22, 2011

by Lowtax

DONT CARE BUTTON posted:

He didn't even "have" the thieves you illiterate pieces of poo poo. They were after him in the story which you DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO READ BEFORE YOU MADE YOURSELF LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE INTERNET.

Don't care

les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien

DONT CARE BUTTON posted:

He didn't even "have" the thieves you illiterate pieces of poo poo. They were after him in the story which you DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO READ BEFORE YOU MADE YOURSELF LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE INTERNET.

Why did Alibaba only piss off 40 thieves?

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




Darf posted:

Why not get ten more and make it a nice round 50?

The number 40 symbolizes a period of testing and judgement. Clearly Alibaba and the 40 Thieves is a coming of age story.

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
alibaba does dallas

Gunky Junket
Oct 30, 2014

by Ralp

DONT CARE BUTTON posted:

He didn't even "have" the thieves you illiterate pieces of poo poo. They were after him in the story which you DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO READ BEFORE YOU MADE YOURSELF LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE INTERNET.

Dr. Heart Collapse
Oct 30, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
because that was the mufti's fatwa

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Kitchner
Nov 9, 2012

IT CAN'T BE BARGAINED WITH.
IT CAN'T BE REASONED WITH.
IT DOESN'T FEEL PITY, OR REMORSE, OR FEAR.
AND IT ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP, EVER, UNTIL YOU ADMIT YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT WARHAMMER
Clapping Larry
Any more than 40 thieves is considered haram and heretics like that get stoned to death.

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