I bet "Shoe Bomber II" is going to wind up on a lot of screensavers in the Arab world, kind of the way Porque no te callas became a ringtone sensation.
DC
On 12/15/08, wrobert at uci.edu <wrobert at uci.edu> wrote:
> For some reason, it made me think about the Kruschev incident at the
> United Nations. I had always dreamed of working that one into a meeting I
> was attending, but I don't have those kind of moves. robert wood
>
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>> On Dec 14, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-shoe15-2008dec15,0,1930513.story
>>>
>> As I learned in Morocco 50 years ago, in an Islamic culture to put
>> one's shoe in one's hand is a severely threatening gesture and to
>> throw it is a gesture expressing unmitigated contempt. If there is a
>> Western term for this sort of thing, it is to be found in the *codex
>> duello*. It is the equivalent of slapping one's enemy across the face
>> with one's glove.
>>
>> Shane Mage
>>
>>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>>> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>>>
>>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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