Iran renames Danish pastries

[occuserpens]

Here they go, Iranian freedom fries

Iran renames Danish pastries
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E88F2072-9109-460F-BDC3-4133EBF525FF.htm

[melody]

1. The freedom fries idiots in my country have Iranian counterparts

Something almost reassuring about that.

[redwitch]

3. LOL! My first thought too.

Then, I thought a little longer. :scared:

[melody]

4. If you see it from that perspective, it defuses it a bit

They have their wacko fringey people, we have ours. We know ours have no guts or conviction behind their nonsense. It's 87% bravura and swagger. Everyone like that is playing "holier than thou" to their own little fringe group.

Had they considered running some of the Jesus jokes that go around in European media (including the North American media), to show it's just a natural trend toward sacred cow slaughter in European cultures? One look at the Jesus action figure should take care of their outrage. (I know, I know, it would if they were reasonable people).

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Please tell me

it's misfiled humor.

Not even The Onion can make this shit up.

[Cocoa]

5. this is such a sweet story

the RWers feel so superior to the "uneducated masses" in the Muslim world that get manipulated by the cynical ruling elites, and this story shows that they are getting played in the same way.

[rodeodance]

6. this story a week or so ago. No mention in media--too emabarrassed

i imagine--the irony of it.

[tanyev]

7. Ah, propaganda wars.

If it never went beyond a war of words, it might be rather amusing.

The linguistic history of war features many instances of countries ejecting words in their vocabulary which have been borrowed from the language of their current enemies. In World War I, Americans renamed sauerkraut 'liberty cabbage' (or just plain 'pickled vegetables'), the frankfurter became a hot dog, dachshunds became liberty hounds, hamburgers were renamed liberty steaks (or in some places Salisbury Steaks), and German shepherds became Alsatians. Meanwhile, the Germans renamed Gibson Girl, a popular brand of English cigarettes, Manoli Wimpel. In World War II, the Japanese replaced American baseball terms with homespun Japanese words, so home-base became ichi ryu, and, it is claimed that, since the Turkish-Greek conflict over Cyprus, the Greeks have been calling Turkish coffee, Greek coffee.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/MED-magazine/May2003/07-languages-at-war.htm

[Lefty48197]

8. Dictatorial theocratic pastries anyone?

Get em while they're hot.

[maddezmom]

9. locking

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