“I am insulted that local TV news crews are now calling this kind of storm a haboob,” Don Yonts, a resident of Gilbert, Ariz., wrote to The Arizona Republic after a particularly fierce, mile-high dust storm swept through the state on July 5. “How do they think our soldiers feel coming back to Arizona and hearing some Middle Eastern term?”Insulted, you hear?
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Friday, July 22, 2011
We Have Always Been At War
W/ The Middle East!
Some of Arizona's tiniest minds type:
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Sheesh, have they ever considered the possibility that returning soldiers may have popularized this previously obscure term?
ReplyDeleteHow can you be insulted by a term that has the word "boob" in it?
ReplyDeleteThat was me. Damn itchy enter finger.
ReplyDeleteLeg Editor:
ReplyDeleteYou'd have to be a real -- NO!