...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

Fun with names: You may or may not recall that the reason I started calling the Toronto Star’s resident shill for Islam Haroon Siddiqui, “Harpoon”. It’s not a name I came up with. Rather, it’s his spell-check suggested name. (In a feat of logic that is opaque to all save Spell-check, the grammarian recommends “Sodium” as the correction for “Siddiqui”—but I think “Harpoon Sodium” is a tad too much, even for me). The first time the suggestion popped up, I was so amused that I decided to use it from them on—a cheeky riposte to a guy who’s so solemn, serious and sober-sided, and who writes with not a whit of wit, that he’s the journalistic equivalent of Lunesta.

Now onto another amusing moniker. It has come to my attention via a comment in Ezra Levant’s blog that “Lakritz,” the surname of the clueless Calgary Herald pundit who thinks Ezra’s a drama queen and that we’re not being nearly nice enough to Muslims, is German for “licorice.”

Naomi Licorice—how absolutely perfect for a gal whose ideas are sticky, sickly sweet, non-nutritious, and woefully lacking in heft. From here on in, she will be known by that name to me.

And wouldn’t Harpoon and la Licorice be ideal collaborators on a book justifying their beloved thought cops?  Maybe they could get Harpoon’s pal Tammy to pen the intro.

Posted by: scaramouche at 20:39 | link | comments (2)

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#1  12 August 2008 - 09:34

 

Off topic, do you know anything about this?

http://newsfromthewest.blogspot.com/2008/08/canadians-finally-stand-up-to-zionism.html

BCF

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#2  12 August 2008 - 11:33

 

Actually, I do know about it. My best friend is a High School English teacher, and his been battling these anti-Zionist creepoids for a while. It's the same two squeaky wheels every time. One of them, a teensy little capo with a Napoleon complex, was suspended (but for only a few months) for teaching Palestinian propoganda in his classroom. Luckily, there are Jewish teachers who support Israel, and refuse to let these bullies push them around.

scaramouche

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