Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 40086
Berkeley CSUA MOTD
 
WIKI | FAQ | Tech FAQ
http://csua.com/feed/
2024/11/23 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
11/23   

2005/10/14-15 [Recreation/Media, Reference/Religion] UID:40086 Activity:nil
10/14   I can't make this stuff up: http://tinyurl.com/bmrfj
        Arab version of Simpsons (Homer Simpson -> Omar Shamshoon)
        not as funny as the original.
2024/11/23 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
11/23   

You may also be interested in these entries...
2006/4/3-4 [Recreation/Media] UID:42626 Activity:nil
4/3     The Simpsons Movie teaser trailer
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roj6U79xuh4
        \_ This video has been removed due to copyright infringement.
           \_ http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/teaser
	...
2006/3/10-11 [Recreation/Media] UID:42174 Activity:nil
3/9     The Simpsons remake (category: humor):
        http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw
	...
2005/12/14-16 [Recreation/Travel/LasVegas, Consumer/TV] UID:41017 Activity:moderate
12/14   What are your favorite shows on TV these days?
        \_ Mythbusters: ..
           \_ ditto
           \_ great show for the geek in all of us.
        \_ 24 on DVD .
        \_ 4400
	...
2005/8/2 [Recreation/Media] UID:38944 Activity:high
8/2     Which came first.. the South Park episode about special olympics
        and steroids?  Or the Family Guy episode about special olympics
        and steroids?  Someone has got to pay.  Dammit, don't nuke this,
        I must know.
        \_ since Family Guy looks like Michael Moore, i'd have to
        say South Park came first
	...
2004/9/30-10/1 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Recreation/Media] UID:33862 Activity:moderate
9/30    NUCULAR!  NUCULAR!
        \_ Has anybody seen sweat?
        \_ Stop picking on Jimmy Carter!  The man is out of office for almost
           a quarter century and is ~80 years old.  Let his speach errors die.
           Enough abusing the ex-President.
           \_ Assuming you're not being ironic, have you considered that they
	...
2009/4/23-28 [Reference/Religion, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:52899 Activity:nil
4/20    Ok, I am not a Jew hater.  In fact, most of my so-called "white"
        friends turned out to be Jews.   And I am fortunate to have
        \_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UeBZiz_Dks
           \_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Xiy5aK3AU&NR=1
        opportunity to work with whole bunch Israelis and working with them
        has been an absolute pleasure.  HOWEVER, I just failed to understand
	...
2008/3/12-17 [Reference/Military] UID:49435 Activity:high
3/12    "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are
        neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make
        things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they
        serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man
        may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
        -Thomas Jefferson
	...
Cache (1440 bytes)
tinyurl.com/bmrfj -> rawstory.com/news/2005/Arabic_Simpsons_doesnt_get_laughs_1014.html
In Arabia, Homer's beer is soda, and his hot dogs are barbequed Egyptian b eef sausages. And the donut-shaped snacks he gobbles are the traditional Arab cookies called kahk. An Arabized "Simpsons" -- called "Al Shamshoon" -- made its debut in the Arab world earlier this month, in time for Ramadan, a time of high TV vi ewership. In the Arabized version of 'The Simpsons,' Homer's called 'Omar' and drinks Coke, not beer. Click Here The family remains, as the producers describe them, "dysfunctional." They still live in Springfield, and "Omar" is still lazy and works at the lo cal nuclear power plant. Bart (now called "Badr") is constantly cheeky t o his parents and teachers and is always in trouble. Providing the chara cters' voices are several popular Egyptian actors, including Mohamed Hen eidy, considered the Robert De Niro of the Middle East. Many Arab blogs and Internet chat se ssions have become consumed with how unfunny "Al Shamshoon" is. Some longtime "Simpson" fans who are Arabs are incensed over the Arabized version. "This is just beyond the pale," wrote As'ad AbuKhalil, a profe ssor at California State University, Stanislaus, whose blog, angryarab b logspot, often touches on politics and the media. After viewing a promot ional segment of "Al Shamshoon," Prof. The guy who played Homer Simpson was one of the most unfunny peo ple I ever watched. Just drop the project, and air reruns of Tony Danza' s show instead."