# What about Saudia Arabia, Mr. Bush? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 12, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138 "2002-09-12T18:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**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 13, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/21 "2002-09-13T02:07:52Z")
Strawberry-no, Banana cream pie. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/22 "2002-09-13T03:24:39Z")
Apple sauce pie is the only way to go folks. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/23 "2002-09-13T04:58:56Z")
Wankle Rotary Engine ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/24 "2002-09-13T07:07:48Z")
Ice cream, because it has no bones. ---
**Author:** ![Karellen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@Karellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karellen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/25 "2002-09-13T07:18:25Z")
Russia has lots of oil. Maybe they could be our new best friend and we could give Putin carte blanche instead of the House of Saud. At least they’re a sort-of democracy with equal misery for women. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/26 "2002-09-13T07:22:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by notcynical \* > **the rein of Saddam Hussein** And now all I can do is hum My Fair Lady tunes, and imagine Saddam falling on plains. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/27 "2002-09-13T07:24:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Wankle Rotary Engine \*\* A) High. B) Hello! C) Good evening! I don’t want to be a pie. I don’t like gravy! [sub]This useless post brought to you by the letter pi and the number pi.[/sub] P.S.: The epitrochoidal engine in question is a Wankel, not a Wankle, you hebetudinous clod. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/28 "2002-09-13T07:28:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wikkit \* > \*\*a Wankel, not a Wankle, you hebetudinous clod. \*\* $x =~ s/hebetudinous clod/wanker/gi; ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/29 "2002-09-13T09:47:04Z")
And let this day be recorded in the annals of time, the day that Wikkit didn’t take the easy, obvious joke and/or geek word play. Actually, I thought hebetudinous trumped wanker, so I went with it. But I’m glad you could get a regexp out of it, if a quite simple one. A proper regexp joke should only be decipherable by the few, the proud, the Geeks. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/30 "2002-09-13T10:02:34Z")
\>\> the rein of Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein is a horse? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/31 "2002-09-13T10:18:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sailor \* > \*\*Saddam Hussein is a horse? \*\* He’s a prancing pony. A very naughty prancing pony. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/32 "2002-09-13T10:27:45Z")
well, is he hung like one? Find out for yourself in Vivid Video’s new production Osama Being Laid in the Tora Bora! [sub]joke copyright of Jack Batty. [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Trob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Trob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trob)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/33 "2002-09-13T19:08:33Z")
The Saudis are a bunch of fat cats, hypocrites, and cowards. They paid off Bin Laden rather than kill the rat bastard. Never will understand that. Islam teaches stewardship of the poor, but that chapter must have been left out of thier copy of the Koran. On the up side they are not amassing chemical and/or biological and/or nuclear weapons. Nor have they invaded any other country lately. Suck though they might they do not pose a clear and present danger. Sodom on the other hand does. He should be killed ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/34 "2002-09-13T19:26:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wikkit \* > **I’m glad you could get a regexp out of it, if a quite simple one.** I save my serious regexp sk|llz for XNews killfilters. There’s a sick, nerdy satisfaction in forging a +4 mithril spam-slayer. > [@](#): > > \*\*A proper regexp joke should only be decipherable by the few, the proud, the Geeks. \*\* They’re not teaching Perl in grade school yet? :eek: Straying further afield: Didn’t Bill Gates try to get hex and/or octal math into school curriculums once? ---
**Author:** ![dave316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dave316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave316)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/35 "2002-09-14T03:29:11Z")
are you saying the United States has a inconsistent foreign policy ? Tell us something new. If you have C-span you can watch the coin flip at the State department every morning to decide which country is our enemy ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/36 "2002-09-14T03:49:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by apotheosis \* > \*\*Are you kidding? Bush can barely tie his shoes! If Clinton was still in office, we’d have an honest, forthright statesman who could handle such difficult questions of policy with aplomb; but this tongue-tied hillbilly can’t be expected to pick his nose without assistance. \*\* It’s a goddam shame that Clinton was never President, so that he could have used his honest forthright statesmanship to solve this difficult problem. We can only hope and pray that he gets elected some day. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/37 "2002-09-14T05:14:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by december \* > \*\*It’s a goddam shame that Clinton was never President, so that he could have used his honest forthright statesmanship to solve this difficult problem. We can only hope and pray that he gets elected some day. 😉 \*\* Hear, hear. **GEORGE CLINTON IN '04!** insert ‘parliamentary government’ comment here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138/38 "2002-09-14T05:36:50Z")
The thing that frightens me is that we have new standards requiring careful scrutiny of nationals coming into our country from certain nations that harbor terrorists or have ties. This was a result of the 9/11 attacks. However, Saudi Arabia, contributor of 15 out of 19 hijackers doesn’t pop up on it anywhere. We are the Saudi’s bitch, and we’re content to suck them for oil and they’re content to sit back and enjoy, and slap us when we act up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-saudia-arabia-mr-bush/128138.md?page=1)