Latest al Qaeda fatwa -- Sharif don't like it.

[Manny]

Islamist forums, including some which have been used in the past by al Qaeda, have been carrying messages calling for the death of actor Omar Sharif because he played a Christian saint (he's not really a crusader, but he plays one on TV). Could be al Qaeda, could be not, could even just be trolls, but it's important to publicize because it gives people an opportunity to say "Sharif don't like it." :)

[Ed]

I am dense. Is this a play on words or something?

Manny, recall we did discuss your joke telling some time ago. Is this another effort?:)

[Manny]

Oh, man, do I feel old today.

OK. First the earth cooled. Then the dinosaurs came. And then in 1982 came a little ditty by a punk band called the Clash...

[Ed]

Oh, man, do I feel old today.

OK. First the earth cooled. Then the dinosaurs came. And then in 1982 came a little ditty by a punk band called the Clash...

Manny, buddy, I have no idea what you are talking about. This happens sometimes and then it is explained to me and I go "oh, yeah". But it is not happening now. Was there a song or something called "Sharif don't like it?" Am I warm?

[Ed]

ok, got it

Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a' cruisnin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille

CHORUS
Shereef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
Shereef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shereef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

CHORUS

Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

CHORUS

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as Shereef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as Shereef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

CHORUS

He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it.


now....


still don't get it :(

[Mycroft]

Omar Sharif? He's still alive?! He's gotta be in his 70's by now. It's been a long time since Dr Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia.

[Orwell]

Islamist forums, including some which have been used in the past by al Qaeda, have been carrying messages calling for the death of actor Omar Sharif because he played a Christian saint (he's not really a crusader, but he plays one on TV). Could be al Qaeda, could be not, could even just be trolls, but it's important to publicize because it gives people an opportunity to say "Sharif don't like it." :)

Manny quoting The Clash!:eek: It's not kosher!

How about this one?

Yankee soldier
He wanna shoot some skag
He met it in cambodia
But now he can’t afford a bag

Yankee dollar talk
To the dictators of the world
In fact it’s giving orders
An’ they can’t afford to miss a word

I’m so bored with the u...s...a...
But what can I do?

Yankee detectives
Are always on the tv
’cos killers in america
Work seven days a week

Never mind the stars and stripes
Let’s print the watergate tapes
I’ll salute the new wave
And I hope nobody escapes

I’m so bored with the u...s...a...
But what can I do?

Move up starsky
For the c.i.a.
Suck on kojak
For the usa

:p

[Alphaba]

"I shot the Sharif"?

Not the Clash, though.

[luchog]

Oh, man, do I feel old today.

OK. First the earth cooled. Then the dinosaurs came. And then in 1982 came a little ditty by a punk band called the Clash...
And thank you for making the rest of us old punks feel ****** ancient as well.

::goes off to fire up his Dickies CDs and bounce around the apartment until he breaks a hip or something::

[Furious]

Omar Sharif? He's still alive?! He's gotta be in his 70's by now. It's been a long time since Dr Zhivago or Lawrence of Arabia.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001725/

78 :)

Not a spring chicken for sure, but old age isn't as low as it used to be.

[CapelDodger]

Not a spring chicken for sure, but old age isn't as low as it used to be.

A comforting thought for someone who remembers when Bob Dylan was a folk-singer.

It would clearly be a great loss. I read his bridge column every Sunday morning. More profound than scripture but equally impenetrable.

[Ed]

A comforting thought for someone who remembers when Bob Dylan was a folk-singer.



That's nothing, nothing you young creep. I remember him as Bobby Zimmerman back when he was a Jew, dammit. Oi, my prostate, gotta pee......

[Ducky]

Manny, don't listen to the tasteless. I thought your old schooler joke was hysterical.

[Ed]

And the nose job. You shoulda seen him before the nose job...where was I???

[Abdul Alhazred]

He's still alive and he's the bridge columnist for the New York Times. That's bridge, the card game.

[Kerberos]

And the nose job. You shoulda seen him before the nose job...where was I???
[off topic] if you're gonna quote me out of context in your sig, could you please, please spell my name correctly?[/off topic]

P.S. I'm much happier with glue.