"To Serve Man" (Julia Gorin)

Frontpage Magazine ^ | January 24, 2007 | Julia Gorin

[Bokababe]

In a recent piece by Rabbi Avi Shafran, the rabbi asks, “You suddenly begin noticing signs bearing Arabic script in buses. What do you do?”

Well, what bus riders in Richmond, Virginia did was call the local Transit Authority to find out what it might know about the signs, which had been turning up on buses and the walls of local universities.

The Associated Press and other media outlets subtly scoffed at the concerned citizens, explaining that the Arabic phrases were in fact innocuous — translating as things like “paper or plastic?” or “paper, scissors, rock” or “I’m a little teapot.” Those translations in fact appeared at the bottom of the signs, along with admonishments like “Misunderstanding can make anything scary” or “What did you think it said?” ............

[Bokababe]

Welcome to Amerarabia!

[mkjessup]

"To Serve Lemur"

(you have to have seen that animated film 'Madagascar' to appreciate this... ;)

[Bokababe]

[presidio9]

[sono]

It's A COOKBOOK!

[xcamel]

That was what I immediately remembered...

[presidio9]

In that case, did you know that Soylent Green is people?

[jagusafr]

"I like to move it, move it" - GREAT movie!

[Unassuaged]

`How to cook for forty humans'
--The Simpson's did it!

[presidio9]

[Rick.Donaldson]

What if we put up signs in English that said things like "Islam can kiss a pig's ass"? Would that be misconstrued?

[lilylangtree]

"One order of man; side of dog!"

[DManA]

They speak and write in arabic and WE'RE TO BLAME for not understanding them?

[magslinger]

They speak and write in arabic and WE'RE TO BLAME for not understanding them?

By George, I think you've got it! Infidels are always to blame. If Infidels would just quit inciting violence, there wouldn't be a problem. And don't bring up the Sunni/Shiite violence. That would be incitement, as well.

[Continental Soldier]

This is the United States. Nothing should be posted to the public that is not in English. Period.

[DManA]

Dfh ejewdc pdqwqxc ksdklc yhesdd?

And you better give me the right answer or I'll come down on you like a load of bricks.

[Excellence]

So what would a bumper sticker with a picture of a Koran and the phrase, "It's a cookbook!" get me? Maybe killed?

(I need an image of a Koran. Anybody have one?)

[ikka]

Can anyone show me the Arabic script for "Mohammed was a pedophile, murderer, betrayer, and rapist" ?

I will make up a few bumper stickers of my own...

[NicknamedBob]

Never get on a spaceship with a guy known as "Jaws."

[Bokababe]

No, but Presidio supplied a shot from the original Twilight Zone episiode on another page:

Maybe you can alter it to look like a Koran!