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2004-03-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Assad receives European aristocrat; Wind exchanged

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Posted by Fred 2004-03-23 1:33:34 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm trying to picture their name tags:

Hi! My name is Royal Highness Prince Carlo of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria, the Grand Master and the Grand Prefect and Heir Apparent of the Royal House of Bourbon Two Sicilies

Posted by ed 2004-3-23 2:05:32 PM|| 2004-3-23 2:05:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Does anybody know what Kerry's full title is? Jean, le Comte de Kerrie? Or is it more elaborate than that?

Posted by Matt 2004-3-23 2:12:20 PM|| 2004-3-23 2:12:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred - you're right. The first 15 minutes of "news" in Saudi, Bahrain, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi was always a ceremonial thingy of some sort. Either shots of the Sheikh / Emir / King Al Amode greeting some foreign dignitary or a procession of Tribal Dingdongs kissing his robe. Very Royal. The Old Bahrani Emir was a little different. He was about 5 ft tall, and they would kiss his nose. Perfect height, but hey it was Weird. Imagine how many viruses and bacterial infections he was exposed to. But he lived to a ripe old age.

That was followed by sports, of course.

So, in toto, it was worthless.

Posted by .com 2004-3-23 2:15:14 PM|| 2004-3-23 2:15:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I take it that His Highness is the pretender to the Italian throne?

Posted by 11A5S 2004-3-23 2:59:02 PM|| 2004-3-23 2:59:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hi! My name is Royal Highness Prince Carlo of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria, the Grand Master and the Grand Prefect and Heir Apparent of the Royal House of Bourbon Two Sicilies

"Hi, Royal--may I call you Royal?--I'm Sid, I'm the regional zone manager for the sales division of the Whitley-Banford Aluminum Siding Company. Can I get you a beer? We got Bud, Bud Light, Michelob, . . . ."

Posted by Mike 2004-3-23 3:16:55 PM|| 2004-3-23 3:16:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Keerist, with monikers like that, no wonder so many euros are lefty revolutionaries...

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-3-23 3:19:13 PM|| 2004-3-23 3:19:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Short-legged Royalty, minus one Kingdom. Something about the Austrians, or maybe it was the Neopolitans...

Posted by mojo 2004-3-23 3:25:09 PM|| 2004-3-23 3:25:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 aasad to the royal two sicilies: ya gotta appointment bub--i'll check yer eyes, if you blow smoke up my ass--we don't have no clash of civilizations in syria--we have a clash within our civilization--i'm an alawhite ya know--so take yer scruffy chaldean paws offa me--security--security

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-3-23 4:37:16 PM|| 2004-3-23 4:37:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred, you dropped the punch line...

"The President went on to say: Syria today is probably the only country in the world that has some of its population still speaking Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ. And neither history nor the state alone can preserve a language... All the other factors such as fraternity and living as one society and one body are the ones that consolidate the simple examples that I have mentioned."

I'll bet that's a great place to live.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-3-23 4:53:47 PM|| 2004-3-23 4:53:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I *think* Aramaic is also still spoken in parts of Lebanon and Iraq. But double-check, YMMV...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-3-23 6:06:15 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-3-23 6:06:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I thought Lebanon was part of Syria. Perhaps boy Assad made the same error.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-3-23 6:51:24 PM|| 2004-3-23 6:51:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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