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Guantanamo Bay

Guantánamo Bay
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About Guantanamo Bay

Guantánamo Bay is a bay in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the largest harbor on the south side of the island and it is surrounded by steep hills which create an enclave that is cut off from its immediate hinterland.

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Guantanamo Bay is on Cuba. It's rented from the Cuban government, except that Fidel Castro says that he never cashes the checks. He says he's cashed one of them once and it was by mistake, $4,000 a month.

from 67: No Such Thing As The Hoo-Hah Monologues, 2015-06-26 at 00:02:29 · read transcript

Other times Guantanamo Bay came up

  1. It's lying? They're lying, yeah. A lie coming out of Guantanamo. Who would have thought it? Imagine if that's what takes them down. There's a version of Guantanamo Bay on Second Life? Is there really? Yeah. A couple of activists built it to show people what it is like there, basically. It's, because obviously you're not normally allowed to go there. It's forbidden for people who are not in the military or, you know, with very few exceptions.

    No Such Thing As The Hoo-Hah Monologues, 2015-06-26 · listen

  2. Once you've thrown your shoe at someone, do you then go and pick it up and put it back on? Do you know what happened to the shoes? To the ones thrown at George Bush. Were they taken by the Secret Service? They were, but what did the Secret Service do to them in Guantanamo Bay? Waterboard. You will talk. You've got a tongue, you will talk. No, they were, and it's exactly what we're talking about with flags.

    No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi, 2020-03-13 · listen

  3. Is this just MI5 kind of being more obvious? Can you record yourself talking about threats to Britain's national security? Because a lot of that vocabulary is very specialized and we really need it. Send it in, we'll give you a fiver and a short stint in Guantanamo Bay. There's a lovely gift shot. The other conclusions that they came to are the words that they said were going in and out of fashion.

    No Such Thing As The Hoo-Hah Monologues, 2015-06-26 · listen

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Coordinates: 19.9975, -75.1420

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