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Codename 'smart alec': British police label Obama with 'mildly offensive' Punjabi word for visit
Daily Mail ^ | 5/23/11

Posted on 05/23/2011 9:13:01 AM PDT by markomalley

More than one person has wanted to call Barack Obama a 'smart alec', and now British police will get the chance to do so without getting reprimanded.

That's because Scotland Yard has tapped the codename 'Chalaque' to refer to the U.S. president for security reasons during his upcoming state visit to the United Kingdom May 24-26.

Indarjit Singh, a Punjabi speaker in the UK who is director of the Network of Sikh Organisations, told the Sunday Times the word 'is sometimes used when we want to denigrate someone who we think is too clever for their own good'.

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KEYWORDS: chalaque; obama; smartalec
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Full title: Codename 'smart alec': British police label Obama with 'mildly offensive' Punjabi word for visit to UK
1 posted on 05/23/2011 9:13:03 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Too CLEVER for his own good? Nope....


2 posted on 05/23/2011 9:15:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: markomalley

don’t mess with a Sikh


3 posted on 05/23/2011 9:16:00 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: markomalley

I think it meams more like “smartass”

I think that will be fun: “Hey, smartass is heading out now”


4 posted on 05/23/2011 9:16:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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To: markomalley

Yeah, teh wan will “bring back respect for the US in the world.”

We HAD respect. I would rather be respected, even with a tinge of fear, than friendly and taken for a chump.

It will take YEARS to rebuild our national profile.


5 posted on 05/23/2011 9:18:31 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (osama gets 72 virgins. We get 72 versions...)
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To: markomalley
Well, at least they were more respectful than I would be.
(I'd be more inclined to Codename Macaca)
6 posted on 05/23/2011 9:19:40 AM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: markomalley

Are you sure the Wee Wee's moniker can't be more appropriately translated as a term indicative of an educated donk?

If so, it's perfectly descriptive and entirely appropriate.

Hat's off to our unabashed British friends!

7 posted on 05/23/2011 9:19:56 AM PDT by Zakeet (The difference between the Wee Wee and a battery ... the battery has a positive side)
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To: markomalley

and michelle’s code name is big ass


8 posted on 05/23/2011 9:20:27 AM PDT by farmguy
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To: markomalley
OK, show of hands.

Who thinks this wasn't deliberate?

(chirp, chirp)

9 posted on 05/23/2011 9:22:15 AM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: mamelukesabre
don’t mess with a Sikh


10 posted on 05/23/2011 9:26:01 AM PDT by houeto (Rev. 13. [7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:)
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To: markomalley

Dufuass, is a better term!


11 posted on 05/23/2011 9:27:46 AM PDT by devistate one four (United states code 10.311 Militia Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: freedumb2003
You are an optimist.

In April 2010 Prager Zeitung published this opinion. It rings more true than ever:

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

12 posted on 05/23/2011 9:28:34 AM PDT by DTA (U.S. Centcom vs. U.S. AFRICOM)
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To: mamelukesabre

Sikhs are pretty badass. They’ve had to be in the past, they had hundreds of years of experience in dealing with Muslim neighbors. Sadly, as always, they’ve had extremists who’ve done some horrible things (see Air India 182).

}:-)4


13 posted on 05/23/2011 9:28:34 AM PDT by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: markomalley

In Hawaiian, that would be Akamai Okole. (smart ass)


14 posted on 05/23/2011 9:29:53 AM PDT by fish hawk
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To: markomalley

ARe Americans too close to the forest to see the trees? Come on, Obamamanites, wake up!


15 posted on 05/23/2011 9:29:58 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( No more Bushs!)
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To: markomalley

What’s the correct pronunciation of ‘Chalaque’? Is it shaa-lock?


16 posted on 05/23/2011 9:32:31 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp
"What’s the correct pronunciation of ‘Chalaque’? Is it shaa-lock?"

It's "shellack", as in "shellacking." For use in context, see below:

"I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I did last night." - 0bummer on the 2010 Republican Landslide.

17 posted on 05/23/2011 9:37:11 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty.)
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To: houeto

Remember...it was her Sikh guards that killed Indira Ghandi.


18 posted on 05/23/2011 9:37:11 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Help stamp out crack-pull up your pants.)
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To: markomalley
Last 'Chalaque' visit:


19 posted on 05/23/2011 9:37:23 AM PDT by DTA (U.S. Centcom vs. U.S. AFRICOM)
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Thanks markomalley.
Scotland Yard has tapped the codename 'Chalaque' to refer to the U.S. president for security reasons during his upcoming state visit to the United Kingdom May 24-26. Indarjit Singh, a Punjabi speaker in the UK who is director of the Network of Sikh Organisations, told the Sunday Times the word 'is sometimes used when we want to denigrate someone who we think is too clever for their own good'.
What's Punjabi for "@$$h0!€"?


20 posted on 05/23/2011 9:38:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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