My Periodr7 & 8 boys have discovered Ahmed the Dead Terrorist on YouTube. Now I have a whole class of Arabs who can say “Silence! I Keeeel you!”
I thought it was somewhat culture-related.
That’s Achmed. A-C-H phlegm M-E-D.
“Ahmed, the Dead Terrorist” sounds like a whacky hijinks movie in the vein of Weekend at Bernie’s.
Warn your kids that if they aren’t careful, they too could suffer from “premature detonation.”
When my sister was teaching in Dubai, she had a class full of Arab boys in their early 20s telling her how they loved to get together and watch Jack Bauer hunt down the evil Muslim terrorists. She asked them if they didn’t feel a little awkward about that, and they all rolled their eyes: “That’s just television, miss!”
By the time I got to them, they had already looked up “phlegm” in their dictionaries.
I keel you dead…that’s the worst kind!
What you need to do is film them watching Achmed the Dead Terrorist, the Arab boys yelling “I KEEL YOU!” and put THAT on YouTube. Don’t forget to e-mail Jeff Dunham, I’m sure he’ll get a kick out of it.
You shouldn’t worry unless they start saying, “Greetings, infidel,” when you walk into the classroom.
Oh, ghods, that would be priceless. Dunham would probably find a way to work it into his show.