# Insider Scoop Theatre **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089 "2007-05-30T17:10:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/1 "2007-05-30T17:10:39Z")
This just in from CNN’s late-breaking development homepage: “Only on CNN” “Military boots vital linguists – they’re gay.” Gee, when did you figure THAT one out, johnny-on-the-spot? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/2 "2007-05-30T17:26:10Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] This just in from CNN’s late-breaking development homepage: “Only on CNN” “Military boots vital linguists – they’re gay.” Gee, when did you figure THAT one out, johnny-on-the-spot? :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] C’mon! Who knew gays could be useful if you weren’t in need of a haircut? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/3 "2007-05-30T17:27:13Z")
Is there something risque in this context about the word “linguist”? Or is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/4 "2007-05-30T17:29:05Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] Is there something risque in this context about the word “linguist”? Or is it just me? [/QUOTE] I think the surprise here is that there’s any surprise here. That the military has been letting Arabic linguists go because they were gay has been out there for years, and CNN says this is “breaking news”? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/5 "2007-05-30T17:34:57Z")
Well, they didn’t come out and say that. They just filed it under “Only on CNN”. Sure, only that _article_ maybe. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/6 "2007-05-30T17:55:30Z")
It’s news to me. Is this a generallized policy of releasing gays or does it have specifically to do with the Arabic focus in some way? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/7 "2007-05-30T18:18:39Z")
[QUOTE=stolichnaya] It’s news to me. Is this a generallized policy of releasing gays or does it have specifically to do with the Arabic focus in some way? [/QUOTE] Generalized policy that happened to disproportionately affect Arabic translators. Which points to a specific way in which the policy is harming our war effort, since we are currently lacking enough Arabic translators. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/8 "2007-05-30T18:36:39Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] “Military boots vital linguists – they’re gay.” [/QUOTE] Don’t know about vital linguists, but military boots? :dubious: I’d have thought that they were rather butch. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/9 "2007-05-30T18:49:19Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] Is there something risque in this context about the word “linguist”? Or is it just me? [/QUOTE] Maybe they have to be cunning? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/10 "2007-05-30T19:32:16Z")
I guess if they were that cunning, they wouldn’t have been kicked out, would they? ---
**Author:** ![Anduril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Anduril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduril)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/11 "2007-05-30T19:50:27Z")
Cunning linguists? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insider-scoop-theatre/406089/12 "2007-05-30T19:53:31Z")
[QUOTE=Anduril] Cunning linguists? [/QUOTE] Say it out loud a few times. You’ll get it.