This would be less funny if I actually spoke Arabic

Sent this to a fellow blogger last week, from the ol' blackberry, in the back of a Porsche Cayenne Turbo in the Arabian Desert, being driven by a Prince - no joke. [Names changed for reasons relating to the fact that I like my job and want to keep it]

From: Marty McSingleflex-Boogaloo [onlyifyouhadonemore@crackdealer.biz]
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:27:13 +03:00

Arabic is funnier when interspersed with english words, like these one from Prince Al-Momonidanyu:

- stagflation
- private equity
- Johns Hopkins
- Alan Greenspan
- M.I.T
- Sub-prime

And he's just told a joke that was all in Arabic except for the punch line which was in English, which was "and he whistles!" which had the entire car in stitches... except my colleague Boney M and I 'cause we're totally lost Anglos in the backseat.

Sent from my Dingleberry Wireless Addictophone

To which I got the following response, enlightening me to the likely story which was being told, in Arabic, unbeknownst to me:

From: Sparky Brightlinks-Frangiponce [causeIwanttobe@thetopofmygame.tv]
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:50:13 +0000

This guy gets out his hopkins on the bus to MIT and everyone starts laughing, because it's like totally sub prime! He starts to blush and says, "hey, this is private!" Equity breaks down and things start to get even worse, as stagflation sets in! Everyone's staring at Alan and his green span reduces before their eyes. But he looks up and they can see in his eyes that he's really a she, and she laughs and says, "yes, it's sewn on, and the joke's on all of you because this is John's Hopkins!"