Maybe you can make it out better here?
Did you not notice how I'd discreetly cropped from the original photos, the better to focus our minds on the task at hand?
That said, yes, that's helpful, thanks.
Did you not notice how I'd discreetly cropped from the original photos, the better to focus our minds on the task at hand?
Indeed, the original photos are better for focusing the hands on the task in mind.
What's the vote? Arabic or not?
I think it is Arabic, but our resident experts must be off doing other things...
Until the experts show up, I'm going to guess Arabic as well.
OK, assume it's Arabic. Is he an Arab, or is this just an example some douchy new tattoo thing, like using Chinese script?
Who says it's either Farsi or Arabic? Maybe it's Urdu. Ever think of that?
His name is Cash Warren; draw your own conclusions.
Actually, come to think of it I prefer to believe it's classical Turkish.
Maybe it's Urdu. Ever think of that?
No. Good point.
His name is Cash Warren
You've got to be kidding. That's more Federline than "Federline."
I am fond of "douchy." Douchy douchy doo! Isn't him?
15: Fuck. And the kid of (former UCLA point guard) Michael Warren. How could his name possibly be "Cash"?
16: It is relatively common for rich kids to have two last names, no?
But you know what they say, Tim: nur Bares ist Wahres.
What's the vote?
My vote is for Jessica Alba wearing a wet bikini at all times.
I renounce you and all your works, apostro.
Let's not get sidetracked here. "Cash," if we must, has more of a Jeff Black issue than Jeff Blake, no?
When the liberation of Aztlan commences, there will be no place for the red of hair.
16: I know a couple of people with kids named Cash. It's a version of Cassius or Casey.
25: Quetzalcoatl has red hair, foolish mortal.
Quetzalcoatl had red plumage, you pasty ape.
Maybe "Cash" is after Johnny. Some of us can't help having hippies for parents.
You should answer your email, fool.
Yes, plus I was making a rhyme. See? Jeez, some people.
Tomatoes are red
Apostropher too
Mexicans have goggle tans
And libertarians are blue.
Hey, has anyone heard that Khamenei is dying? Michael Ledeen is reporting it as fact, and I'd, uh, like to see another source or twenty on that before I believe it.
Not that it has much to do with anything discussed in this thread, of course.
If it's supposed to be Arabic, the dots are in the wrong places or are superfluous, the letters aren't joined up properly, and they don't combine to make any words that I'm aware of.
I once saw a woman in a store with Arabic letters tattooed on her arm, and only after looking at it for a while I realized it was supposed to be her name. But the letters weren't joined up properly.
39 - Wonder if we'll see an Arabic version of this site in a few years.
Egyptians are so picky about everything. Pyramids, hieroglyphics, camels, embalming.
There's this joke about a woman who knitted Chinese characters from a menu into her sweater. She war it back to the restaurant and everyone acted weird and ran into the back room to laugh. Finally she got someone to explain that the characters read "This dish is cheap but tasty".
Ha.
Tho' this pic is more teh Mineshaft.
My ex spent time in China. He brought home a hotel menu that offered "smoked rabbi".
37: PajamasMedia says he's already dead.
PajamasMedia, eh? Now I need 30 more sources before I'll believe it.
If Charles Krauthammer says he's dead too, I'll take the logical conclusion that Khamenei was just voted Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
So...who would be the next Supreme Leader? Is it necessary that there be one?
It looks like a jailhouse tattoo, all blue and not very sharp.
Yah, Pelosi would freak out. She's very emotional.
ADNKronos: "The names of three possible successors to Khamenei are currently on the lips of Iranians: Khamenei's son, Mjtaba; Iran's former reformist president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; and Gholam Ali Mesbah Yazdi, the ultra-conservative ayatollah who is considered the spiritual father of Iran's current hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
A friend took a band name from an awesome bit of Engrish on a Chinese menu: "Skirts on Fire"
Yes, there will be one. Apparently, Khamenei's son is a possibility, as are Rafsanjani (who's been around forever, was president before, and is considered a "pragmatist." He's also widely loathed for being totally corrupt and enriching himself immensely. In the US, what you'll hear if he's chosen is that he said the Islamic world is big enough to withstand a nuclear attack, but Israel isn't). Ayatollah Yazdi is also in the running, and he's a hardliner, an ally of Ahmadinejad. I don't know much about Yazdi, but his selection would scare me, if only because it would be much harder to make the "dovish" case that Ahmadinejad doesn't control foreign policy.
53: Better choice than this one, I guess.
I can't say I'd be happy to see Khamenei's son take his father's place. That hasn't turned out so well over here.
Seeing "Looking Good" appear in Latest Comments so many times has gotten "Buffalo Stance" stuck in my head.
Looking good, hanging with the wild bunch.
Looking good in a Buffalo Stance.
Looking good when it comes to the crunch
Looking good's a state of mind
State of mind don't look behind you
State of mind or you'll be dead
Wot is he like! Wot is he like anyway!
The boy's a gigolo, man.
Ogged, if you threw your hat in the ring, you'd sew up the netroots support easily. Better start growing that beard now, though.
I've got no street cred with the Iranian blogs; I'd be seen as an agent of the Americans. I might be able to swing it on looks alone, however.
43: In a similar vein, here's a pretty funny story from Afghanistan (scroll down to "The Price Is...").
I agree with da; that looks like fake Arabic.
Sounds like Arabic is the new Chinese.
I was referring specifically to the link.
The Afghan story reminds me of an American woman I met years agowho went to Afganistan to buy rugs.
She was astonished to find that all the dealers were quite prepared to offer her the rugs on credit.
After at least 10 of them had offered credit terms she asked incredulously - "But what happens if the customer doesn't pay".
Hilarious laughter all round - followed by the observation -
"We keell them"
60: It's too bad the Bush administration doesn't seem willing to learn the lesson of the "Good Driver!" piece right above it.
#63: Eh, I should have searched the source code of this page for the hanzismatter.com url.
Re: the book linked in 42: I hear the author got arrested for playing in A minor.
Jessica Alba gives guys erections.
71: Not much of one, by the looks of it.
The tattoo is cursive demonic. It says, roughly, "I am the key. If found, deposit in any mailbox. Postage guaranteed"
Iran's ambassador says Khamenei is not dead yet.
