Ode to a Kurd

[House of Mustard]

Here's an interesting article about Saddam in prison.  Apparently he's taken up poetry.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/26/iraq.saddam.report/index.html

Also, I get no end of amusement from the following paragraph--apparently, some CNN writer thinks that meters and yards are interchangeable:

Saddam's cell in a U.S. military prison is air conditioned, painted white, and measures 3 meters (yards) by 5 meters.

[Onion of Death]

In the future, we will one day look back at our foolishness, once his Garden of Mass Destruction has taken out the world.

[EUOL]

Heh.  Skar and I went out to lunch last Friday, and he gave me a cool little souvenir.  It's a little canister of oil used for oiling weapons--he found it abandoned with a lot of other equipotent in a guard post at the Baghdad palace.

[42]

Saddam writes prison poetry. He will probably be submitting to the Leading Edge soon.

[Brenna]

lol.  Well, he'd better send a SASE, or it'll be thrown right out.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

meters and yards are roughly equivalent, like a dollar is roughly 100 yen...except the exact ratio never changes, in the case of meters and yards.

I think it's fine to say a meter is roughly a yard, but it's a bit weird to imagine someone nowadays who needs to be told what a meter is.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I think all news outlets just assume people do. Since well... they don't want anyone confused.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I think it's fine to say a meter is roughly a yard, but it's a bit weird to imagine someone nowadays who needs to be told what a meter is.

The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.

Does Saddam know it though, that's the question.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

well...I do find it very rare that someone knows what scansion is...

[House of Mustard]

Isn't that another name for a green onion?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

no, you're thinking of a scally wag.

[House of Mustard]

Or a scullery maid.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

come to think of it, I think it's a scallop.

[House of Mustard]

No, I'm pretty sure I'm thinking about scullery maids.  Yowza!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

sure you're not thinking of scranton? or perhaps scrapple?