all over the city camel alarms were going off (trying to convince me that he's Swiss)

Yesterday five NFL coaches were fired and then the next week they'll be tried by the Senate? I don't know. --David Letterman 12/29/1998

I don't have you've been following the news but this bombing in Baghdad has been very very very very intense. They have these, you know, the Tomahawk cruise things. Those smart rockets and it's been unbelievably intense and and reporters who are in the city of Baghdad said that at one point the noise from the bombing was so loud, that all over the city camel alarms were going off. --David Letterman 12/18/1998

This War in Iraq is making everyone jumpy. I'm coming to work this morning and and halfway halfway on the trip my cab driver Mohammed is trying to convince me that he's Swiss. --David Letterman 12/18/1998

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