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Reginald
5th March 2003, 11:06 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2820817.stm

click on the "Watch and listen" link topish rightish.

Those boys sure know how to throw the insults!

Thankfully the Iraqi guy did'nt have a beard! they would have had to censor it!!!!


:D
corplinx
5th March 2003, 11:18 PM
Originally posted by Reginald
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2820817.stm

click on the "Watch and listen" link topish rightish.

Those boys sure know how to throw the insults!

Thankfully the Iraqi guy did'nt have a beard! they would have had to censor it!!!!


:D

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits! (ripped off from the one and only Johnny Carson or the person who wrote it for him)
clk
5th March 2003, 11:26 PM
Originally posted by Reginald
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2820817.stm

click on the "Watch and listen" link topish rightish.

Those boys sure know how to throw the insults!

Thankfully the Iraqi guy did'nt have a beard! they would have had to censor it!!!!


:D

HAHAHAHA! That was hilarious. Thanks for the link.
Walter Wayne
5th March 2003, 11:43 PM
Corplinx, your post reminded me of a favourite of mine. From the film Lawrence of Arabia. I believe it went something like

A curse on you father, if your mother knows which one of her many suitors he is.

Walt
Smalso
6th March 2003, 03:00 AM
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits! (ripped off from the one and only Johnny Carson or the person who wrote it for him)

Or, even more Carsonesque: "May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of your firstborn."

The guy was one of a kind.
richardm
6th March 2003, 03:32 AM
"God curse your moustache" ? :D
Segnosaur
6th March 2003, 07:44 AM
Originally posted by richardm
"God curse your moustache" ? :D
Supposedly moustache is some sort of Arabic slang for 'honour'.
(See: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030305/ap_on_re_mi_ea/islamic_summit_21 for more information on the insults.)

There were more insults at an earlier meeting of Arab states (covered in this thread: http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15047)

My favorite one is: "You are a liar and your grave awaits you". (A discussion between Gadaffi and the Saudi leaders.) See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2811403.stm

(Edited to add a link for the moustache thingy)