Tuesday, August 12, 2008

"This is Al-Harbi to all units. The people at number 47 Shara Jareer appear to be having a good time".....

........ in a nearby Riyadh street, the camera zooms in on an Arabic version of the Übermensch so rapidly that when it gets there time appears to stand still. Our hero is idly tossing around a toothpick in his mustachio-ed mouth sitting on a chiseled-featured, designer-stubbled face when the call goes out. He tosses aside his generic piece of Saudi take-away type food1 and intones in a deep, purposeful manner: "Not on my watch......"

The opening credits play.

The next day we find ourselves looking in on a meeting with all the top brass (the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars), which is already in progress when we get there.


Learned Scholar 1: I ..... hear ..... that pretending to be gay .... can be quite effective.

An un-easy murmuring flows through the room....


Learned Scholar 2 (shrugging): Perhaps .... but actually being gay is already illegal, so...

The murmuring is replaced by a mixture of "ah"s and nods of agreement. There is now a long protracted silence broken only by the occasional cough and the sound accompanying the scratching of a learned chin. Eventually, our attention is drawn to a weaselly-looking scholar in one corner of the room who stares into the table as he speaks.


Weaselly Scholar 3: Well..... A .... friend of mine ..... informs me that walking a dog is how the "hip cats" do it....
A thoughtful silence overtakes the room.

The next shot is of a news headline.

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Anyways ........ switching the channel, we catch an exciting arrest in an episode of the Saudi Arabian version of Cops:


1Yeah .... there's only so much research I'm willing to do here......

4 comments:

Andrew said...

You really have to feel for those cats, too....

They start with the highest of ideals, but on the ground arrests tend to look a little more like this.

David Barry said...

He tosses aside his generic piece of Saudi take-away type food
This was the best line in the blog entry.

Andrew said...

Possibly I should've written the whole thing in such a manner.

I think the above linked video of a vice police arrest is the really funny bit, actually. Should have put it in the main post ..... ah, well.

P.S. you should see Bad Santa if you haven't already done so....

Andrew said...

Ah, fuck it. I keep forgetting I can EDIT.....