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

Posted on 05/24/2011 6:09:43 PM PDT by blueyon

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'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: codename; obama; queen; uk
PERFECT Name!
1 posted on 05/24/2011 6:09:53 PM PDT by blueyon
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To: blueyon

Looking forward to 2012 where Chalaque gets Shellacked.


2 posted on 05/24/2011 6:12:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: blueyon

Yeah, but jackass would have worked just as well.


4 posted on 05/24/2011 6:14:51 PM PDT by dforest
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To: blueyon

“Mildly offensive” is so much nicer than my codewords for him.


5 posted on 05/24/2011 6:18:22 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: blueyon
Yes, and if Obama visited Israel right now, I bet Shin Bet would codename him "Schmuck."

(Yeah, I know that the word is Yiddish rather than Hebrew.)

6 posted on 05/24/2011 6:23:45 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: blueyon

They should call him “Zelig”. It doesn’t matter what country he is in — he claims to be one of them.


7 posted on 05/24/2011 6:27:55 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: blueyon

You know it really translates to “Smart Ass!”


8 posted on 05/24/2011 6:32:41 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (What do we do after reelection? The $1,000,000,000.00 fix is in.)
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To: blueyon

‘The Hindi code name, which translated into “smart alec” or “cheeky, crafty and cunning” was “randomly generated by computer”, the Daily Mail reported, quoting Sunday Times police sources.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/code-name-chalaque-obama-given-smart-alec-moniker-20110525-1f357.html#ixzz1NK54Sj2t

God works in mysterious ways.


9 posted on 05/24/2011 6:32:47 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: blueyon

Otay!


10 posted on 05/24/2011 6:39:46 PM PDT by Avery Iota Kracker (You say ma-ca-ca, I say mac-a-ca....)
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To: blueyon
Then let's go with dumb ass.
11 posted on 05/24/2011 7:02:03 PM PDT by ryan71 (Dear spell check - No, I will not capitalize the "m" in moslem!)
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To: blueyon

hahahahahhahahah!!!!!!! PERFECT!!


12 posted on 05/24/2011 7:04:09 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: blueyon
...because "dumb Alec" was already taken...


13 posted on 05/24/2011 7:54:51 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: blueyon

Seems a bit odd that the codename used “for security purposes” would be disclosed before the visit.


14 posted on 05/24/2011 9:00:19 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: blueyon
That's just what he is. A smartass.

"Maybe we need a moat. A moat with alligators in it."

No, we need a president. A president with brains in his head.

15 posted on 05/24/2011 10:02:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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