# Omar

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 3, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415 "2010-07-03T12:16:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 8

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/141 "2010-08-10T17:16:28Z")

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After reading the thread, I note that’s the second reference to The Omar in Deus Ex : Invisible War (which I started playing two days ago).

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**Author:** ![Shig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Shig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shig)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/142 "2010-09-22T14:40:58Z")

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“I rip and run. …I robs drug dealers.”

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**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/143 "2010-09-22T14:54:57Z")

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> [@GoodOmens](#):
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> The sound of whistled “The Farmer in the Dell” on a dark city street, of course. What else could it be?

I had exactly the same reaction – not the words “Omar Little” or the image of Omar Little, but the sound of “Farmer in the Dell,” which thanks to The Wire, has gone in my mind from a childhood song to the very definition of “ominous.”

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**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/144 "2010-09-22T15:46:38Z")

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Omar Sharif with a cheesy moustache. Not sure which movie the vignette is from.

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/145 "2012-05-08T15:34:49Z")

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Thanks everybody.

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/146 "2012-05-08T15:37:53Z")

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_The Wire_

Now I’ll go look at the other answers.

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