Arafat Scarf

“I want one of those checker pattern scarves that Yassir Arafat wears on his noggin. I gotta get back to work, but I would appreciate if one of the slackers would do a web search for me.

I have looked and the only one I could find was in England and they wouldn't ship it to the States. Anyone here belong to the Arab-League? PLO?”

“Right down this alley:

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“Go to cheap Italian restuarant and steal a tablecloth.”

“Surely one of our chronics has had time to look for this thing.

I think they are called a Kefiyah, but I have seen variations on the spelling.”

“they don't sell turbans at the local hrdware stores in arkansas???”

“We don't have any Arabs in Arkansas.”

“Bacpac, if you ever come to Mi. you can visit the highest Arab population on earth outside of the middleast about 15 miles from my house.”

“How bout doing a brother a favor and asking one of those rag heads where he got his rag.”

“I know Kleety could find an online source. He comes up with some weird stuff.”

“Keffiyeh is another spelling. I guess Arabic doesn't translate to English too well.”

“geez, bacpac, in the time you've taken to create this post and keep checking back and posting to it, you could have found one on the internet I'm sure.

Are you really in the market for a muslim headcovering (and, if so, why?), or is this just an experiment in whether you can get the trailtalk drones to do your bidding no matter how random and ridiculous?”

“I have looked! I ran out of leads. I figure someone would have a resource that I couldn't find.

I don't want any muslim covering, I want the one like Arafat wears.”

“....and one other thing. I have sourced a lot of stuff for folks on this site. and some of it was pretty darn random and ridiculous”

“http://www.alhannah.com/index2.html might have what you are looking for in the mens section they call it a "Smagh"
http://www.4arabs.com/ has a huge amout of links too.

What search engines are you using?”

“bacpac,

YOU ARE A REDNECK DICK!”

“Q: How do you circumsize a redneck?
A:Kick his dog in the jaw!

Q:How do
you cut a redneck's dick off?
A:Kick his sister in the chin!”

“Bacpac, sorry man. I dont go to Dearborn ( the town with the high Arab population). Except for school. I dont head into the town proper due to heavy traffic.”

“Q: How can you tell if a University of Arkansas football player is married?

A: There is tobacco spit on both sides of his pickup truck.”

“The father of my wife's best friend from college went to high school with Arafat. But I don't think they have kept in touch. But, as hyper notes, the father does live in suburban Detroit. The family is Palestinian, but talk about a Middle East minority, they are Christians. The father was apparently the only Christian in his Lebanese high school.

So is that 4 degrees of separation from me? Anybody closer to Arafat?”

“I am half-Palestinian, and half-British.

Since this "war" started up, I have heard the most ignorant and disgusting things come out of peoples mouths, people who I never expected it from. I look very little like a "typical" Palestinian and so people don't realize whom they are talking to. Just as bacpac probably assumed no one on this board would be of any ethnicity.

I myself have said racist things in the past, but when you hear things that hit home it really makes you think about how damaging racism, or even racial stereotyping is.

There is some benefit to living in an urban environment. People are more tolerant and less ignorant of others, although I have found some rural people to be the nicest people I have ever met, they just say most of what they say out of ignorance.”

“Come on Tarp, no fair picking on the rural people. I'm rural and I don't think I say things out of ignorance. HeHeHe! But seriously, leave us rural folk out of it.”

“I know what you're talking about Tarp.

A friend I used to work with is Cuban. He looks very much like a European Spaniard and as he grew up in an Italian neighborhood, he picked up enough mannerisms that most people assume he's Italian.

Another guy was relating a derogatory story about a Spanish guy with a heavy accent to him. My friend didn't let on but asked if the guy sounded like Ricky Ricardo.

It was like watching a train wreck.



There are plenty of metropolitan bigots and enlightened rural folks. It's not where you live but where you are.”

“I, too, have felt the sting of thoughtlessness, prejudice and ignorance.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful!”

“Kleetn, you are tooooo funny.”

“Tarpy my brother, Ali Acbar! Can you get me a deal on one of these oversized bandanas?”

“humanpackmule, Many thanks, I placed an order and it is on the way! Who would have thought they were called a Smagh?

I was using Yahoo, Alta-Vista, and webcrawler. I never could get a decent Arab link. Thanks a ton!”

“Dont EVER call an American of Spanish decent "latino" egads! They are "Castillion"!”

“No problem bacpac.

You might want to try allthesites.com it works pretty darn good for me and it's faster than any of the "high profile" engines.

I also use Copernic, it's a search engine compiler. Basically download the free version (it's all you really need) of the software from copernic.com. The sofware searches about 10 different engines at once and returns the results sorted by relevance. I find a lot of obscure stuff that way.

All I did was search for "Arabic clothing"”

“bacpac,

This is why people in other countries hate Americans!

You can all go to hell!”

“And take your stinking communist manifesto and shove it up your arse!”

“yeah, tarpy.

i think that some of your past comments would look good on this thread.”

“Tarpy, maybe you can help me out. I met this nice Jewish girl who fantasizes about a Palestinian uprising in the Gaza strip, if ya know what I mean. She has this thing about a camel jockey riding to her Holy Land. Sort of a twist on the Moses being on the mount with the burning bush story. Are you hearing what I?m saying?

Do you know any Arabic war cries or Islamic oaths I can use to enhance the moment? Ali Akbar!”

“Man, this is great...a bacpac vs. tarprat grudge match! Tarp, your chain is being yanked hard, LOL!”

“I don't have a grudge against the Tarpatolla. He is like a son to me.”

“bacpac rules this land, daddy-o!”

“I guess it figures that a Tarp Rat would be part bedouin.”

“bacpac, once you get your head scarf, you can try for a new career as a badguy extra in "Iron Eagle XXV" or "Delta Force VIII" or "Navy Seals XII."”

“I really love middleastern cuisine...tabouli,cous-cous,baba gahnoush,falafil,humous,shish-tawook,shish-kafta...”

“Whatcha need the scarf for, bacpac, the dry cleaners lose yer hooded white robe?”

“oh, and kleet comes in with a low (but well delivered) blow!

no, not THAT kind of blow! pervs!”

“Kleety you ignorant @ss! No one sends their robe to the dry cleaners. We hang them on the clothesline in the front yard.

I wanted the scarf to show solidarity for my Palestinian brothers in their battle against the Zionists.

Plus my J.A.P. loves an Arabian night.”

“Hyper, if you ever are in Madison, WI, there is a good Afghan/Eastern Mediterranean restaurant called Kabul on State Street. Much of what you listed is on the menu.

BTW, speaking of Afghanistan, the Taliban came out with a new list of evil items not allowed in Afghanistan. I hate to admit it, but I agree with one item -- NO TIES ALLOWED! I hate ties.

However, they also banned chessboards.”

“Racism = Ignorance”

“Arafat is a "has been" that still is!”

“Arafat is a Survivor. I think the PLO has a legitimate complaint.”

“Arafats body and mind has decayed waaaaay too far for him to still be a leader. His old age is now age old!”

“is tarpy "arafat", too?”

“Buddur, They said the same thing about Ronald Reagan, but he did pretty good.”

“Things for Arafat don't look so good at this moment!”

“I hear they gots him locked in his $hitter. Any truth?”