# Let's rename that Bin dude **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298 "2001-09-23T04:49:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/1 "2001-09-23T04:49:13Z")
I admit it, I can’t remember his whole name, and actually have trouble even with that bin laden part. So henceforth I shall be calling him Drum roll please **Salad** Well his name sorta sounds like it. Ok, that is how I rationalized this name change when discussing the past week with a friend and called the villian of our tragedy “salad”. So I am going to stick to that story. But, think about it, he could be a fruit salad. And no one (ok a few people in the world may argue that he isn’t, but they are on his side)is going to argue that he isn’t a nut case and fruity (definition of fruity being crazy–from my childhood). If he is a lettuce salad, don’t we want to see him tossed out of power and maybe even worse. So it is Salad the leader of those extremists. ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/2 "2001-09-23T09:48:02Z")
I think this old quote from [Cecil discussing the many ways to spell Qaddafi](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_264b.html) works here too. > [@](#): > > I say we just call him Duckbreath. It’s short, it’s easy to spell, and Lord knows it satisfies the soul. ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/3 "2001-09-23T10:41:37Z")
An Aussie friend here suggested he should move to Osaka. Thus he could be “Osaka Bin Liner\*”. (\*bin liner=aussie for trash bag) ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/4 "2001-09-23T18:06:07Z")
I want to see the day we can refer to him as Aint Bin Breethin… ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/5 "2001-09-23T18:15:07Z")
**Salad** is actually very funny, but too nice a name for the guy, I think. I humbly propose **Booger Face** for your kind consideration. Thanks, Creaky B. ---
**Author:** ![atypicalcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/6 "2001-09-23T18:21:55Z")
He’s a shadowy international terrorist type. Let’s give him a ‘spy’ name… My suggestion: “The Target.” ---
**Author:** ![Ferggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Ferggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferggie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/7 "2001-09-23T19:11:03Z")
Hm… **Salad** sounds (or at least looks) rather like **Saladin** , the guy who they were after in the _actual_ Crusades. If I’m not mistaken, the brass recanted referring to the coming conflict as a “crusade” because they didn’t want our Muslim allies to get the wrong idea… However, I think I _will_ take up calling him Salad because whenever I’m reading a news budget to the ed I tend to accent --and mispronounce-- the “den” rather than the “La” and wind up looking ignorant. (La-DEEN sounds so much more like a character from an _Aladdin_ movie, which is where I expect many of us young folks got our miseducation about things Ararbic.) ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/8 "2001-09-23T19:21:21Z")
Osama been Lyin’? ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/9 "2001-09-23T21:38:15Z")
As for the OP: I was thinking the exact same thing today. Sorta like when President HW Bush use to mispronounce “Saddam” just to piss him off. Now, I think it should be subtle, so Osama bin-dickweed won’t work. Maybe someone with a knowledge of Arabic could come up with a nice play on words? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/10 "2001-09-23T23:47:18Z")
Osama Bid **Dover**? Speaking of which… when we start bombing (and we _will_ bomb because that’s what we do best) there will be a lot of refugees. They probably won’t have a lot of clothes with them. Maybe we can help them out by sending them T-shirts with **BOHICA** on the front? It might help their government know they would rather live in peace than to harbour a terrorist and his organization. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/11 "2001-09-23T23:48:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Osama Bid **Dover**? Oops. That’s “Osama Bi **n** Dover”. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/12 "2001-09-24T00:01:59Z")
Salad is good. Think of the possibilities: [ul][li]Lettuce salad: Lettuce have your head, Binny.[/li][li]Caesar salad: Binny thought it was fun to Caesar commercial jets for evil ends, but he’ll soon learn better when he Caesar missiles headed his way.[/li][li]Pasta salad: Stop trying to pasta blame on someone else, bub.[/li][li]Chef salad: :Cups hand to ear: What’s that I hear? The sound of Binny chef-ling off to prison![/li][/ul]OK, enough punning for now… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/13 "2001-09-24T00:06:26Z")
**Booger Face** is good, thanks **Creaky**. But I can’t believe no one has suggested it yet… **Asshole**! ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/14 "2001-09-24T00:16:02Z")
Just wondering if the Taliban recruitment posters say “Uncle Osama Needs YOU!” Anyway, I think in true SDMB spirit he should just be called “Felchwad” (though _asshole_ is good too). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/15 "2001-09-24T01:01:14Z")
Bantha Fodder ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/16 "2001-09-24T01:25:40Z")
Osama Jihada Mirada Sonata Mañana Stigmata Empada Yolanda Piñata Yadda-Yadda binLaden. ---
**Author:** ![Nonny\_Mouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@Nonny\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonny_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/17 "2001-09-24T01:27:57Z")
Mud. ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/18 "2001-09-24T01:52:39Z")
How about **Captain Small Penis**? The only problem I can find with that is we have to refer to him as captain. Failing that, we could just call him cum rag or assbutt. That’s what I’ve been calling him. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/19 "2001-09-24T01:57:07Z")
“Osama bin Laden” spells, “Alias, Nomad Ben.” ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-that-bin-dude/83298/20 "2001-09-24T03:22:00Z")
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