{"id":1525,"date":"2003-07-27T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T02:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/27\/koosay-eebay-and-ooday\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:32:33","slug":"koosay-eebay-and-ooday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/27\/koosay-eebay-and-ooday\/","title":{"rendered":"Koosay, Eebay, and Ooday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13941,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slattsnews.ubersportingpundit.com\\\/archives\\\/002096.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040814214129\\\/http:\\\/\\\/slattsnews.ubersportingpundit.com:80\\\/archives\\\/002096.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:56:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 15:56:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13942,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/glenn.typepad.com\\\/news\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/scooby_hussein.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  You&#8217;ve probably noticed that there are many different spellings of Arabic names depending on which news source you are reading. The truth is that there is no consensus how to write Arabic words in English. If we are going to investigate Arabic names we must therefore use phonetic spellings. Saddam&#8217;s sons then become Koosay, Eebay, and Ooday.<\/p>\n<p>  Now if we translate those names from Pig Latin back into English we have Skoo Bee Doo. Is this a veiled reference to the cartoon dog from the 1970s, Scooby Doo? Can it be anything but that?<\/p>\n<p>  Well consider this. Scooby Doo&#8217;s final year of first-run shows was 1977. It was also in 1977 that Saddam Hussein came to power in the ruling Baath Party.<\/p>\n<p>  Coincidence? You decide.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/slattsnews.ubersportingpundit.com\/archives\/002096.html\" title=\"the mother of conspiracy theories\">Bernard Slattery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/glenn.typepad.com\/news\/2003\/07\/scooby_hussein.html\" title=\"Scooby Hussein?\">Glenn<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve probably noticed that there are many different spellings of Arabic names depending on which news source you are reading. The truth is that there is no consensus how to write Arabic words in English. If we are going to investigate Arabic names we must therefore use phonetic spellings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[6,14],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}