The Hussein Family Pig Latin Connection

self | July 24th, 2003 | Elk Grove Dan

[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.

[Darksheare]

Off day, (Wednsday's nickname/ CENSORED for sensibilities), Rue Day, Fool Day, and VeeDay.

[austinTparty]

Oh, THAT is warped. Really warped.

I like it.

[Darksheare]

Oh Kay, and Oh Jay, twins.

[kayak]

My only comment is that it all came together to

..... Make My Day!

[Darksheare]

*chuckle*

[Soaring Feather]

ROTHFLOL!!
Oh my did we forget,

PAY BACK DAY??
RE-COUPE DAY

RELATED ON SADDAM'S SIDE

TWO for the price of ONE DAY

[lysie]

Fay Wray Day....

[Darksheare]

Yeah, we forgot them!

Panic day, judgement day, laundry day (already emntioned?), inspection day, Fry Day.

[lysie]

Welterweight.......... Sugar Ray Day

[Othniel]

What about the cowboy: Yippee-Ki-Yay.

(Whose nickname was, well, think Bruce Willis.)

[lysie]

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. :-)

[bevlar]

Don't forget the sad one...."blueday"

[bevlar]

Heavily armed one....."dday"

Fisheater......"fryday"

Troubled one...."mayday"

[snippy_about_it]

It is a conspiracy, Remember the Chinese fighter pilot that "bumped" our AWACS plane in the
Pacific?

Wong Way.

[Darksheare]

Welterweight..
Good one.

[Darksheare]

Long Way too.

[Soaring Feather]

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

[SAMWolf]

LOL! How about the one who was always celebrating - Holiday

[Darksheare]

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.*

[Brad’s Gramma]

LOL!!!!!! BUMP!!!