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Diplomat Whose Name Is Dirty Word in Arabic Rejected as Saudi Ambassador
FoxNews ^ | February 4, 2010

Posted on 02/04/2010 12:46:51 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

A high-ranking Pakistani diplomat reportedly cannot be appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia because in Arabic his name translates into a phrase more appropriate for a porn star, referring to the size of male genitals, Foreign Policy reported.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ambassador; arabic
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1 posted on 02/04/2010 12:46:51 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: SouthTexas

PING


2 posted on 02/04/2010 12:47:55 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Funny, he doesn't look Pakistani.

3 posted on 02/04/2010 12:48:22 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Yeah....happens to me all the time....ahem.....


4 posted on 02/04/2010 12:48:25 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What’s his last name? Biden?


5 posted on 02/04/2010 12:48:39 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: theDentist

Barack!


6 posted on 02/04/2010 12:48:58 PM PST by cameraeye (A happy kafar!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Arabic transaltion of Akbar Zeb to “biggest d**k” has overwhelmed Saudi officials who have refused to allow his post there.

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In other news it has just been learned that the Kenyan words for Barack Obama also translate into “biggest d**k”.

Who knew?


7 posted on 02/04/2010 12:49:23 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Free Republic. The BEST place anywhere to PIMP YOUR BLOG)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“So you are for to be telleeng me thit I am not to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Why EES thees???”

“I am not knowing, Mr. Hugeballs. I swear to Allah....”


8 posted on 02/04/2010 12:49:46 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"A high-ranking Pakistani diplomat reportedly cannot be appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia because in Arabic his name translates into a phrase more appropriate for a porn star..."

Maybe they were afraid of the size of his diplomatic pouch.

9 posted on 02/04/2010 12:49:56 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

To be replaced by Mr. Hugh Johnson.


10 posted on 02/04/2010 12:50:09 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Maybe he should change his name to Bob Zany...


11 posted on 02/04/2010 12:51:26 PM PST by Onelifetogive (Flame away...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Zeb” is arabic for “male genitalia”???

LMAO!

Akbar Zeb......< snicker >


12 posted on 02/04/2010 12:52:10 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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Diplomat Whose Name Is Dirty Word in Arabic Rejected as Saudi Ambassador

Was his name "unique?" Iraqis will get it.
13 posted on 02/04/2010 12:53:28 PM PST by aruanan
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I just remembered.....put HVAC in a house for a customer many years ago named “Biggerstaff”.

The secretaries had a good giggle when they typed up his invoices.


14 posted on 02/04/2010 12:53:56 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Thumper1960

Not to be confused with the Canadian “zed” for “zero”.

As in “Barak Zedbama”.


15 posted on 02/04/2010 12:55:48 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Thumper1960

I once had a customer named humsucker, my old fire chief was named balls.


16 posted on 02/04/2010 12:57:42 PM PST by bikerman (Buck Farack)
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To: Thumper1960
“Zeb” is arabic for “male genitalia”???

Also "zib," or in Lebanon, "zibadoh." People also laugh about the English word "zipper" and at "unique" because the "nique" part sounds just like the second person singular for one of the things done with the zib.
17 posted on 02/04/2010 12:58:47 PM PST by aruanan
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To: bikerman

A local restaurant here is named “Big Dick’s Halfway Inn.”


18 posted on 02/04/2010 12:59:47 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Responsibility2nd
In other news it has just been learned that the Kenyan words for Barack Obama also translate into “ biggest d**k T__d ”.
19 posted on 02/04/2010 1:01:12 PM PST by piroque
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
He has a wife you know.


20 posted on 02/04/2010 1:01:46 PM PST by doodad
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