should a man who named himself after a girl horse be making fun of other people's names?

hmmm....

You're right...which means that you should only sympathize with this poor fellow, since his parents named him...
...but you *can* make fun of his twin cabbie brother, Ci'moor.
(he's the one who urinates as he drives, btw)

For those of you who missed that chapter of commuting suicide, here's the link:
http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2008/11/commuting_suici_26.html

Geez, Echo ... with Sarcky around, who needs a press agent?

Tim, I didn't realize you were the only one who was allowed to remember stuff...(walks towards corner sulking, puts on dunce cap)

I was just trying to keep newer readers in the loop...

Sorry Sarcky, that wasn't meant as a jab. Just a little ribbing.

Keep up the good work. I say we should cross-reference the hell outta the whole sight. I'm sure the 'mouche wouldn't mind.

Yeah, like I even own a dunce cap....

apology accepted--just wish the links would be pretty red like in the forum.

Oh well, I guess everybody's a little racist sometime.

I sense a Dean Martin tune coming on ...

hulleye....
ah, I see you came here for the streaking girl story but got offended by the cabbie name story.

I am the first one to get on my high horse when offended...but names are just names. We have no control over which one we get, and I'd be happy (as Echo was) to have a cabbie with a name that made my ride a little happier/less stressful.

hulleye just makes me remember Meagan, who came down here and started a flame war based on racism based only in half the comments...

Every time there will come these folks...

Sarcky, sometimes I have those recalls on things previously posted around here too, but most of the times I fail calling them up. I'll remember doing that next time, so the ybnby team can get more revenue from older posts being revisited.

Leo--great idea...especially since Echo tweeted this entry--so we can get people hopping all over this site...before you know it, there will be traffic congestion galore...and I'll let you take the credit ;-)

Ouch, I just fell down and saifed my butt.

Kashmiri muslim, hunh... Interesting. (WTF is kashmiri muslim?)

Hulleye, since you decided to make an issue of it....

Look, we just have those guys drive our cabs, and if they're not good, we send them home where they can fix our computers in unintelligible english. Expecting us to know about every god blessed world culture and their common last names just shows you're a douche. I doubt that if this was a story on the Inuit that you'd be saying, "Quallunaat is actually a very common Inuit last name and the Q is pronounced with an "H" sound like "Hallunat".

Nope, the only reason you know that, Douchey McTurbanhead, is because that's your culture. And you feel like you have a right to be a total and complete dick to people who are outsiders which only makes those people think "I'm glad to be outside that culture. Those douches are total pole pirates." So, the next time some cab driver or 7-11 operator tells me he's kashmiri muslim, my first thought is going to be, "Probably an asshole."

Way to go broadening our cultural horizons there punjab.

Butt is also an English surname whose origins lie in the South West Peninsula region of England. It's unfortunate you don't know much about other cultures without realizing where they come from and what they have to endure to make a decent living. (And I guess you missed last weeks post about the stupid names in England.)

http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2009/04/the_delight_of.html

Oh, and it's called a shift key dumbass, use it.

(Miss. C, your profanity laced flame war comments as requested.)

We really should be more sensitive to these kind of things. After all, it's not like an American would be harassed in Tehran for a name that translates to Jesus is God, or an Englishman would be ridiculed in Paris for a name that translates to shithead.

Good point Tim, after all, the Muslims have always shown a great deal of cultural understanding and we should try to follow their lead.

Exactly. In fact, would it not be an insult for us to assume ourselves so righteous as to be more understanding to cultural differences than they? Who are we to take the lead in cultural sensitivity? That would be typical of us arrogant Americans.

You guys said it all...

Sarcky, we share the credits... all of us... after all, they keep coming here because once in a while one of us drop a line that is very 'googleable' and the parachutists come here to yell and run away...

Good point Tim. Perhaps a Kashmiri cultural day is in order. So we can better understand and appreciate their culture.

8:00 A.M. - Deny that we are harboring the Taliban.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/06/content_11138949.htm

9:00 A.M. - After a brief phone call to Osama, we could plan to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.
http://hinduunity.yuku.com/topic/1292/t/Kashmiri-muslim-terrorist-cooperating-with-FBI.html

12:00 - Making all that C4 works up an appetite! Lunch! Doodu phul anyone? (And then we'll all be phul of doodu!)

1:00 - Kidnap 12 year old girl, and torture her until she agrees to marry an islamic terrorist
http://islamicterrorism.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/kashmiri-muslim-women-forcibly-married-to-islamic-terrorists-and-living-in-hell/

3:30 - Visit cleric who will tell the girl we just kidnapped and raped that the marriage is sacrosanct under islamic law.

4:00 - Harrass Hindus and take their money
http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1987

5:00 - Commit genocide
http://www.kashmiri-pandit.org/sundry/genocide.html

Gosh, some time and Google, and suddenly I understand the Kashmiri Islamics that much better. I feel enlightened. My cultural horizons have been broadened.