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**fruttomma** · 01-09-2007, 06:38 PM

I like your response to it, Aneeshm: naming your kid after a war criminal is pretty funny, unless you picked a war criminal who has committed crimes against Hindu Civilization.

Anyway, these people's image of Saddam is so divorced from the reality of his life that the name has little meaning. If they named their kids "Saint Nicholas," thinking of a fat old white guy in a red suit who rides around in the sky dropping toys down chimneys, it wouldn't really say anything about the ancient bishop of Asia Minor. Same rules apply here, IMO. If they had proverbs like "a kurd in a mass grave is worth ten running free over the sands," that would be genuinely icky.

01-09-2007, 06:38 PM	#9
fruttomma Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 408 Senior Member	I like your response to it, Aneeshm: naming your kid after a war criminal is pretty funny, unless you picked a war criminal who has committed crimes against Hindu Civilization. Anyway, these people's image of Saddam is so divorced from the reality of his life that the name has little meaning. If they named their kids "Saint Nicholas," thinking of a fat old white guy in a red suit who rides around in the sky dropping toys down chimneys, it wouldn't really say anything about the ancient bishop of Asia Minor. Same rules apply here, IMO. If they had proverbs like "a kurd in a mass grave is worth ten running free over the sands," that would be genuinely icky.
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