# Udayyay isyay ayay Umbshitday

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/udayyay-isyay-ayay-umbshitday/168977>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 16, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/udayyay-isyay-ayay-umbshitday/168977 "2003-04-16T00:12:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**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:** [April 17, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/udayyay-isyay-ayay-umbshitday/168977/21 "2003-04-17T12:47:15Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*  
> \*\*Saddam and sons sure do like their porno.
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> Hey, you know, Saddam sounds kind of like Sodom. Saddam=sodomy.
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> Heh. Who knew? \*\*

Arrrgh! **Guinastasia** is aping George Bush I in mispronouncing Saddam’s name. It is a CIA plot!\*

From a CBC website:

\*"Arab speakers say the accent should be on the second syllable (Sa-DAM) and not on the first (SAD-am). Some also point out that “dam” shouldn’t sound like “damn” but rather like “alm” – which, as William Safire notes, means that what we stress should be pretty close to “bomb.”

There is also a theory among critics that the White House has gone out of its way to mispronounce the name. They complain that one version, “SOD-um,” is intended to conjure up the biblical city of ill fame. They also claim that another version, “SAD-um,” is part of a conspiracy to twist the meaning in Arabic. “SAD-um” was the popular choice of George W. Bush’s father during the early 1990s. Putting the accent on the first syllable, scholars argue, turns “one who confronts” into “barefoot beggar.”\*

\*The claim that the CIA instructed George Bush the Elder to misprounce Saddam’s name as “Sodom” has made the rounds among certain Muslim conspiracy theorists.

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/udayyay-isyay-ayay-umbshitday/168977/22 "2003-04-17T14:21:40Z")

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There is a very interesting article in this month’s \*Vanity Fair \* covering the brutality and excentricities of the Hussein Brothers.

Just thought I would share.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/udayyay-isyay-ayay-umbshitday/168977/23 "2003-04-17T19:34:03Z")

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Link didn’t work for me!!

I read on PBS’s site that Uday has about 1000 cars he stole from Kuwait. My wife says thats not a very impressive collection cause they are all probably the same year! She’s funny.

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Jesus was in a coma.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/udayyay-isyay-ayay-umbshitday/168977/24 "2003-04-20T01:32:52Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \*  
> \*\*From a CBC website:
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> _"Arab speakers say the accent should be on the second syllable (Sa-DAM) and not on the first (SAD-am). Some also point out that “dam” shouldn’t sound like “damn” but rather like “alm” – which, as William Safire notes, means that what we stress should be pretty close to “bomb.”_
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> \*\*

_“It’s time to bomb Saddam  
It’s time to bomb Saddam  
Blow him to kingdom come  
It’s time to bomb Saddam…”_

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