# I Pit Hosni Mubarak **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970 "2011-02-03T01:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/41 "2011-02-03T22:15:48Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Mubarak is certainly no democrat but this man has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East for the last 30 years. His prisons were also instrumental in making Ayman al-Zawahiri the man he is today. Maybe sometime we can ask an Egyptian who’s been in one of those prisons how he feels about Mubarak’s peacekeeping. Or for that matter, any of the people who are being beaten or shot right now. His time is up, and if your country is in a state of emergency for 30 years, you’re no good at running it anyway. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/42 "2011-02-03T22:21:15Z")
Just heard on NPR that Mubarak supporters are going around the streets editing the graffiti, so that “We Want To Try Mubarak” becomes “We Want Mubarak,” etc. That has got to be the lamest, saddest thing in the history of revolutions. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/43 "2011-02-03T22:23:41Z")
> [@MoodIndigo1](#): > > This revolution is not an American show, but the reaction of the U.S. is no doubt significant. It strikes me that Americans view themselves as a moral nation-- but I guess reality means that moral nations have strange bedfellows-- bedfellows that they can forget ever supporting. Well, if you have brutal dictators as allies in the first place, which is worse – to ditch them when things go pear-shaped\*, or to stick by them no matter what? \*What is the origin of that phrase, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/44 "2011-02-03T22:23:52Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > His time is up, and if your country is in a state of emergency for 30 years, you’re no good at running it anyway. 😉 To be fair, the entire region has been in a state of emergency since anyone can remember, and maybe even before that. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/45 "2011-02-03T22:24:47Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > As much of a dick Mubarak is, I just can’t shake the feeling that a lot of the protesters are really just protesting the lack of freedom to subjugate their women as they see fit. How much does Mubarak’s regime really get in the way, there? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/46 "2011-02-03T22:26:50Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > To be fair, the entire region has been in a state of emergency since anyone can remember, and maybe even before that. I told you a hundred times, don’t mess with the Ottoman Empire, it’s too rickety, things will be all a mess if it goes, but you said it couldn’t do any harm to pinch a province here or a colony there. Salvage, you said. That’s how it always starts . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/47 "2011-02-03T22:29:35Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Next up: “I’d resign right now, but I’m thinking about _the children_!” “The palace cook always does them so nice! Can I resign after supper?” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/48 "2011-02-03T22:32:24Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > How much does Mubarak’s regime really get in the way, there? Oh, not at all…it’s just his modicum of cooperation with the West; we’re all devils who want to turn all their women into whores by allowing them to get education and such. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/49 "2011-02-03T22:50:25Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > Oh, not at all…it’s just his modicum of cooperation with the West; we’re all devils who want to turn all their women into whores by allowing them to get education and such. The idea of an abundance of educated Egyptian whores does have a certain appeal. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/50 "2011-02-03T23:13:02Z")
Will they dress like Anck-Su-Namun from _The Mummy_? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/51 "2011-02-03T23:21:01Z")
Yeah, that about wraps it up. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/52 "2011-02-03T23:21:19Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Will they dress like Anck-Su-Namun from _The Mummy_? Goes without saying! 🙂 (Unless anyone has an even better idea.) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/53 "2011-02-03T23:30:07Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Will they dress like Anck-Su-Namun from _The Mummy_? What, the one who threatened to put snakes in the little boy’s bed while he was sleeeeepiiiiiing? I’m looking for somone who can pass for the model of the Bust of Nefertiti, which, I’ll wager, will _not_ be returned to Egypt in the forseeable future. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/54 "2011-02-03T23:32:24Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > What, the one who threatened to put snakes in the little boy’s bed while he was sleeeeepiiiiiing? Maybe -If you’re referring to the sequels I wouldn’t know as I can’t remember much about them. [This](http://www.freewebs.com/poisonousdrunkn/AnckSuNamun10.jpg) one (probably NSFW). ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/55 "2011-02-03T23:51:01Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Hey, don’t be so skeptical! I just got a peek at the ballot, and it lists “Schmosni Schmubarak.” \*Clearly \*a completely different guy. No worries there. With a name like that, he’s clearly a Jew. Can’t win. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/56 "2011-02-03T23:51:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The idea of an abundance of educated Egyptian whores does have a certain appeal. Come to think of it… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/57 "2011-02-04T00:28:45Z")
When I drove cab, I frequently got guys looking for hookers, I never got the idea they were looking for an intelligent conversation. I guess I never asked, so maybe. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/58 "2011-02-04T00:34:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > When I drove cab, I frequently got guys looking for hookers, I never got the idea they were looking for an intelligent conversation. I guess I never asked, so maybe. You just never happened to hit the turf of the [Whore of Mensa.](http://woodyallenitalia.tripod.com/short-uk.html) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/59 "2011-02-04T02:09:29Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The idea of an abundance of educated Egyptian whores does have a certain appeal. Egypt is known for its _Horus_, not its whores. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-hosni-mubarak/569970/60 "2011-02-04T02:14:45Z")
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