You know you’re in a messed-up country when…

Its president has not bathed since the 25th anniversary of Oil Nationalization Day.

So it is with Iran, where state [seized] the oil industry in 1951

The Rosett Report » Oil Nationalization Day in Iran
by Claudia Rosett On March 20, 2012

Years ago, while traveling in Latin America, I took part in one of those games with which people amuse themselves while waiting eternally in dysfunctional airports for flights that seem to have vanished into the bureaucratic ether. I offer here a somewhat cleaned up version of the premise. The game was simply, without deviating from the truth, to complete the sentence:
You know you’re in a messed-up country when…
Thus do we arrive at March 20th. You know it’s a messed-up country, when… well, here’s Iran’s PressTV celebrating Oil Nationalization Day
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