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The Hussein Family Pig Latin Connection
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| 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 Husseins 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?
Youve 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. Saddams 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 Doos 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 ;)
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posted on
07/26/2003 2:00:07 PM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Gramma and I are changing the world one grandchild at a time!)
To: ElkGroveDan
That should read aathBay artyPay.
122
posted on
07/26/2003 2:01:21 PM PDT
by
Twinkie
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!)
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.")
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
To: ohioWfan
LOL.
btw-How is your son?
To: SAMWolf
We've all gone mad. What about BAD DAY.....lol
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)
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.
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.)
To: SAMWolf
aaarrrrggghhh!
To: snippy_about_it
:-)
132
posted on
07/26/2003 4:34:50 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.)
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....)
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.")
To: snippy_about_it
The Socialists in Oregon have named a town after one of Hussein's missing sons
135
posted on
07/26/2003 4:46:30 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.)
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....)
To: SAMWolf
Har har har!
To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; Darksheare
Bytheway is another son? ROTFLOL
Getoutoftheway, half brother!!
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.")
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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