Friday, November 12, 2004

 
Radical Muslims?
Or: Muslin navigators?
Or: "Rad" Pants
Or: Dhimmi Denims

Now that I'm waxing humble, perhaps I should admit the possibility that Chris Columbus had for a navigator a *converso* who had been raised as a Muslim. It was not until today that I learned that some sails *are* made of muslin. The full extent of my prior knowledge of sails and things sartorial may be found in this excerpt of "The Love Song of Long John Silver" from the Sept 3, 2003 archives:

I hates them azure whales;
harpoon is tipped with venom.
Sometimes I wears blue sails,
And then I calls ‘em “denim.”
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Samuel P. Huntington(known as "P. Dhimmi" to his more radical followers)famously observed something to the effect that some Muslim terrorists are quite comfortable in blue jeans.
Less well known are the works of an englishman whose penchant for sailing brought him to the United States. Like his more famous relative, he loathed "stuffed shirts" and had something of a love-hate relationship with "the colonials." On one celebrated occasion, Lanyard Kipling "tied one on" before staggering out into a moonlit cornfield. Outraged by what he thought was the silence of insolence, he "belted and flayed," and sorely dissed, without effect, a scarecrow before falling prostrate and then exclaiming, "You're a better man than I am, dungarees!"

I think I'd better go now.......