Whozzat?
Posted on:: September 6th, 2004
Please don’t tell me that we got the identity wrong of a person named Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. Do you know what this means? Puns have supplanted irony as the chief law of the universe.
At least it can’t get much worse.
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Must’ve been his brother, Whoddat.
Supposedly the confusion arose because the capture came at a baseball game …
Ah, if only you could hear the jokes Arabs make about English-language names!
Twisting and tweaking proper names remains a constant source of entertainment and amusement for Arabic speakers. The cross-lingual ones are quite fun as well. Guess what a “zip” disk means in Arabic?
Do tell, w! I’d love to hear some of the jokes…