While most of you were grilling up meats on skewers kabob-style but not calling them kabobs on the pinnacle of American holidays, I spent most of the day scouring youtube for clips from classic 80s sitcoms and the famous LBC interview that saw Haifa Wahbe weeping and pleading with the host to "bleaz, bleaz, khalas."
And what better way to celebrate this lovely 4th of July day than to serve up a classic slice of homemade American Orientalism from arguably one of the best sitcoms of the 80s...even though others think otherwise?
This post is meant as a consolation prize for all the less fortunate, non-Transformers attending folks. :
(Warning: The second part of this episode is 10 seconds off sync!)
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
I Dream of Good Ole American Exoticism
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While most of you were grilling up meats on skewers kabob-style but not calling them kabobs on the pinnacle of American holidays
Bullshit. They've been called shish-kabobs in the US since at least when I was a child, and I'm older than you. You can't even insult us without lying. How can Palestinians have their own state with such incompetent activists as you? :P
Besides, how long will it take you to admit that the Mongolians introduced that style of cooking meat on skewers to the middle east and south Asia? And besides, we stole the cooking style from the Turks, not from the Arabs. Go whine to somebody else.
Armenian shish kabab, from Turkish şiş kebabı
Correction. We stole it from the Armenians. So it's the fault of Muslims that we use the Armenian Christian term "shish kabab" and not your silly Muslim variants. All your base are belong to us.
BY the way, I didn't understand a word of that Haifa interview, but I could see that the audio was out of sync with her lips. You Palestinians are so accustomed to pimping propaganda that you don't even notice shit like that, huh? :O
Orientalism - a word and definition coined by and used only by Palestinians. Well, like "Palestinians".
On the bright side... the brother from Small Wonder is now the lead singer of Smashing Pumpkins - and they're back together. Fuck yeah!
Unfortunately Nadeem, that widespread rumor needs to be stuffed back into the drawer of explanations for what happened to 80s child stars.
Jamie Lawson, nee' Jerry Supiran, died 13 years ago at the age of 21 from heart murmurs!!!
When I read about that yesterday, it ruined my July 4th!
And I JUST read today that the yellow ranger from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers died in 2001 from a car accident!
Thank your lucky stars that you're not a former star of a child-friendly tv series!
You mean Brian Warner didn't have one of his ribs removed so that he could um... err... always win at limbo!
BY the way, I didn't understand a word of that Haifa interview, but I could see that the audio was out of sync with her lips. You Palestinians are so accustomed to pimping propaganda that you don't even notice shit like that, huh?
Israelis are now so accustomed to conspiratorial thinking (see Qana), that they suspect even the most benign things as being "clues" to a vast "Pallywood" conspiracy designed to make Jews look bad.
Craigmeistro, that video is all over the internet, in and out of sync
Actually Nadeem, he did in fact have his rib removed, but, once again, not for the conventionally held "limbo" reason...
He had his rib removed to help Richard Gere stuff bigger rodents, like monogolian gerbils, up certain holes...
Israelis are now so accustomed to conspiratorial thinking (see Qana), that they suspect even the most benign things as being "clues" to a vast "Pallywood" conspiracy designed to make Jews look bad.
Are you accusing me of being an Israeli, anonymous? Or a Jew? :D
Craigmeistro, that video is all over the internet, in and out of sync
Did you ahve a point, other anonymous? The video has obviously been altered. I can't understand what's being said, so I don't know WHY it was altered... I'm just pointing out that it was. Besides being out of sync, the two people in the interview are never on camera at the same time. That's a very old trick used for doctoring videos. Watch the Daily Show or the Colbert Report and you'll see them doing comedy skits using that technique every single night :)
"I hear those camel jockeys are really rich." Classic...
Did the sheikh's advisor say his name was "Mustapha Akkad"?
Yes, yes he did indeed.
Apparently, the hollywood rule of thumb for nameing Arab characters is to name them after the only Arabs they know (seeing that Akkad was in the film industry, this makes sense) or, if that limited stock of 4 names they are aware gets overused, make up names with hacking cough sounds in them.
"Falcon of the five deserts, chiefton of the 10 tribes, monarch of the dunes...most exalted ruler of Tabiri"
-that's my shit right there!
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