Friday, January 20, 2006

How do you say "Leaves of Grass" in Arabic?

In yet another example of celbrities attempting to capitalize on their fame by expanding into other occupations, Osama bin Laden's #2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a tape of him reciting poetry. Special. Next thing you know, we'll be bombarded with ads for Kim Jung Il's new situation comedy on HBO. They'll call it "Seoul Man" or something.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That would be funnier if Seoul was in North Korea...

Anonymous said...

I really do think that in the interest of the humor of the joke that it's not especially important that Seoul is not in North Korea. The pun on Seoul/Soul is justifiable in that Kim Jung Il is in fact Korean. It works for me.

P "N" K said...

Um, considering my ethnicity and my Halo avatar of "Seoul Man" I feel I am uniquely qualified to arbitrarily and shallowly judge said joke.

I give it 6/10. No matter how you cut it, Pyongyang Man just isn't quite the same, and that's the de facto city you must use in relation to Kim Jong.

They should show a video of him getting a haircut. And then getting arrested. I'd buy it on pay-per-view.

Erik said...

I think every joke made over a blog should be judged by Parker. I'm curious as to how I'd score.