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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
Off day, (Wednsday's nickname/ CENSORED for sensibilities), Rue Day, Fool Day, and VeeDay.
61
posted on
07/26/2003 10:22:49 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
To: Scott from the Left Coast
Oh, THAT is warped. Really warped.
I like it.
To: bentfeather
Oh Kay, and Oh Jay, twins.
63
posted on
07/26/2003 10:24:55 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
To: Darksheare
My only comment is that it all came together to
..... Make My Day!
64
posted on
07/26/2003 10:37:24 AM PDT
by
kayak
(God bless President Bush, our military, and our nation!)
To: kayak
*chuckle*
65
posted on
07/26/2003 10:44:51 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
To: Darksheare; snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; radu
ROTHFLOL!!
Oh my did we forget,
PAY BACK DAY??
RE-COUPE DAY
RELATED ON SADDAM'S SIDE
TWO for the price of ONE DAY
To: ElkGroveDan
Fay Wray Day....
67
posted on
07/26/2003 10:54:30 AM PDT
by
lysie
To: bentfeather
Yeah, we forgot them!
Panic day, judgement day, laundry day (already emntioned?), inspection day, Fry Day.
68
posted on
07/26/2003 10:55:38 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
To: Darksheare
Welterweight.......... Sugar Ray Day
69
posted on
07/26/2003 10:56:49 AM PDT
by
lysie
To: lysie; All
What about the cowboy: Yippee-Ki-Yay.
(Whose nickname was, well, think Bruce Willis.)
70
posted on
07/26/2003 10:59:15 AM PDT
by
Othniel
(My money's on the guy with the holes in his feet and wrists......)
To: Othniel
Anybody remember the comedian Ray Johnson?? Along that line
You can call be Qusay or
You can call me Oday
But you dasn't have to call me Hussein....
Something like that. :-)
71
posted on
07/26/2003 11:01:30 AM PDT
by
lysie
To: Othniel
Don't forget the sad one...."blueday"
72
posted on
07/26/2003 11:04:00 AM PDT
by
bevlar
To: lysie
Heavily armed one....."dday"
Fisheater......"fryday"
Troubled one...."mayday"
73
posted on
07/26/2003 11:06:24 AM PDT
by
bevlar
To: Darksheare; bentfeather; SAMWolf
It is a conspiracy, Remember the Chinese fighter pilot that "bumped" our AWACS plane in the
Pacific?
Wong Way.
To: lysie
Welterweight..
Good one.
75
posted on
07/26/2003 11:07:05 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
To: snippy_about_it
Long Way too.
76
posted on
07/26/2003 11:07:37 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; Darksheare; radu
Iway avehay away itewhay atcay amednay atscay
ehay ookslay ikelay away itewhay atray
ishay amenay isway Odayway
it'sway otnay okayway otay aysay
Uway Aybay Anyway AYDAY
To: snippy_about_it
LOL! How about the one who was always celebrating - Holiday
78
posted on
07/26/2003 11:09:28 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.)
To: bentfeather
Ugh!
My brain locked up on that!
*Trying to write, read, and think in pig latin really does a number on one's thought processes.*
79
posted on
07/26/2003 11:10:57 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("I didn't say it wouldn't burn, I said it wouldn't hurt.")
To: Darksheare
LOL!!!!!! BUMP!!!
80
posted on
07/26/2003 11:16:27 AM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
(fREE rEPUBLIC iS nOT aDDICTIVE, fREE rEPUBLIC iS nOT aDDICTIVE, fREE rEPUBLIC iS nOT aDDICTIVE, fREE)
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