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The Hussein Family Pig Latin Connection
self | July 24th, 2003 | Elk Grove Dan

Posted on 07/24/2003 6:21:17 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan

There is a joke going around that goes something like this: “Did you hear that Qusay and Uday are ed-day?”

Clearly the humor is a play on the uncanny fact that the names of Saddam Hussein’s sons sound an awful like Pig-Latin verbiage. I pondered this notion as the sounds of laughter faded away from my most recent telling of the joke. I wondered, is there more to it? Could there really be a Pig-Latin connection to the Hussein family?

And what of the shadowy third son we have heard about in news reports. Does anyone really know what his name is? I think I do.

The third son disappeared from public view shortly after the first Gulf War in 1991. Is it a coincidence that shortly after that in 1995, halfway around the world a company was started in California with a Pig-Latin sounding name? Have you ever wondered why there is so much Saddam Hussein related memorabilia sold on E-Bay? Could it be that someone is proud of their father the tyrant? Could it be that lost and forgotten son, Ebay Hussein?

You’ve probably noticed that there are many different spellings of Arabic names depending on which news source you are reading. The truth is that there is no consensus how to write Arabic words in English. If we are going to investigate Arabic names we must therefore use phonetic spellings. Saddam’s sons then become Koosay, Eebay, and Ooday.

Now if we translate those names from Pig Latin back into English we have Skoo Bee Doo. Is this a veiled reference to the cartoon dog from the 1970s, Scooby Doo? Can it be anything but that?

Well consider this. Scooby Doo’s final year of first-run shows was 1977. It was also in 1977 that Saddam Hussein came to power in the ruling Baath Party.

Coincidence? You decide.


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To: bentfeather
LOL thanks ;)
121 posted on 07/26/2003 2:00:07 PM PDT by Fawnn (Gramma and I are changing the world one grandchild at a time!)
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To: ElkGroveDan
That should read aathBay artyPay.
122 posted on 07/26/2003 2:01:21 PM PDT by Twinkie
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To: ohioWfan
...or the twins named in response to the (now defunct) Michael Jackson-Presley wedding: ohhhhhhhh-kay and the-hell-you-say
123 posted on 07/26/2003 2:04:28 PM PDT by Fawnn (Gramma and I are changing the world one grandchild at a time!)
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To: ohioWfan
D-lay, Mon Nay
For say?
124 posted on 07/26/2003 2:07:02 PM PDT by Darksheare ("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
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To: ElkGroveDan
What do you mean? This is vey series. It IS breaking news.

Especially with the revelation of Saddam's third son, eBay ;-)

125 posted on 07/26/2003 2:33:30 PM PDT by varon
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To: ohioWfan
LOL.

btw-How is your son?
126 posted on 07/26/2003 4:17:31 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our Troops)
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To: SAMWolf
We've all gone mad. What about BAD DAY.....lol
127 posted on 07/26/2003 4:19:47 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our Troops)
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To: snippy_about_it
HOT!! :o)

No, seriously, he's doing fine (but it IS 130 degrees in the daytime in Baghdad!)

He's trying to make the most out of the situation by volunteering for extra missions and duties, by swimming in the pool his unit made, by playing the guitar that I sent him every day, by reading all the great books people have sent him, and by starting a Bible study once a week.

We're praying that he somehow gets home before school starts in the fall so he doesn't lose the whole semester, but that's not looking too promising....

128 posted on 07/26/2003 4:23:17 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Bush 2004!!....Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
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To: ohioWfan
I know I'm in contact with a soldier there and they were delayed in their return and hoping for mid to late September to be stateside.

I'm glad to hear he's hanging in there.
129 posted on 07/26/2003 4:29:06 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our Troops)
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To: snippy_about_it
Bytheway is another son?
130 posted on 07/26/2003 4:32:11 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.)
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To: SAMWolf
aaarrrrggghhh!
131 posted on 07/26/2003 4:33:20 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our Troops)
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To: snippy_about_it
:-)
132 posted on 07/26/2003 4:34:50 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.)
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To: SAMWolf
LOL!!!

(I doubt there are any named here-to-stay.) ;)
133 posted on 07/26/2003 4:38:04 PM PDT by Fawnn (I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
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To: Fawnn
Naaah, They're all Gone A Way.
134 posted on 07/26/2003 4:43:53 PM PDT by Darksheare ("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
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To: snippy_about_it
The Socialists in Oregon have named a town after one of Hussein's missing sons

Click for Coos Bay Forecast

135 posted on 07/26/2003 4:46:30 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.)
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To: Darksheare
LOL!!!

...and no invitations to come-again-some-other-day
136 posted on 07/26/2003 4:47:25 PM PDT by Fawnn (I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
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To: SAMWolf
Har har har!
137 posted on 07/26/2003 4:47:33 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our Troops)
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To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; Darksheare
Bytheway is another son? ROTFLOL

Getoutoftheway, half brother!!

138 posted on 07/26/2003 4:51:22 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: Fawnn
And the one who is always late but sez he's "On the way"?
139 posted on 07/26/2003 4:51:59 PM PDT by Darksheare ("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
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To: Fawnn
here-to-stay is supposed to be a mean one. :-)
140 posted on 07/26/2003 4:52:15 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.)
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