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I know it has been ages since we last talked about this but I freed up a little time and am ready to tackle the awesome’st garage part two. For those of you who are new this was the ultimate awesome garage part one:
And since there was so much discussion about other cars that could have been in there I thought I would open up the sequel to you guys to decide.
Now I did leave out …
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I have a rule regarding travelling overseas, if they’ve made a movie about giant spiders or Ebola coming from there I don’t go there. Of course having never actually travelled overseas does not negate the fact that thus far I have not:
- been eaten or attacked by a giant spider
- died from Ebola
So this rule has worked out pretty well for me so far and with an established success rate I figure I can extend this to include real estate.
Here thanks to popular culture are five places that I would never live:
- Near a corn field – nothing ever good happens in corn fields except maybe the growing of corn, but I hear that’s rare and aliens or children are more likely to show up.
- Elm Street, Crystal Lake or Texas – I know that generally the events depicted in movies didn’t actually happen in the real equivalents of these places, but really I’m just not taking the risk.
- With gypsies – sure some gypsies make chocolate and look like Johnny Depp and really I have nothing against them, but movies and books have made it clear that there are other gypsies that put curses on you and you turn into werewolves or vampires with souls, I don’t need that.
- In old mansions – they are always built on top of Indian burial grounds or are haunted or have university students wandering around… yuck.
- Near or under famous land marks – when the asteroids/aliens smack into stuff it is always somewhere famous like the Eiffel tower or the Sydney Opera House. Sure it looks pretty but when your house is a giant crater in the ground you’ll wish that you lived somewhere that wouldn’t be featured on a postcard.
I’ve printed these rules up in a handy card to give to real estate agents when discussing property, sure they’ll give you a weird look but at least I won’t wind up living some place with a dude in an ice hockey mask with a machete leaves empty coke cans in my front yard!
Last night I happened to have a documentary on in the background regarding the Arab representation in western media and popular culture. To be honest I wasn’t paying a huge amount of attention as I was doing other stuff at the same time but the actor who played Dr. Bashir came on screen and it reminded me of something I never quite got.
When Deep Space Nine came out the actor credited as Dr Bashir was Siddig El Fadil but in the third or fourth season he had changed his name to Alexander Siddig and I always wondered why but never found out.
Until last night of course.
Thanks to the power of the interwebz I got the answer that I didn’t even really know that I was looking for:
…he changed his professional name to “Alexander Siddig” because (as reported by him at Star Trek conventions) nobody could pronounce “El Fadil”. source
I guess I find that a shame that he felt he had to change his name but then again apparently I keep messing Arjan’s name up whenever I go to say it so perhaps he should take Siddig’s lead and consider changing his name to Arthur to accommodate me (I am very much joking).
I did find out as well that Siddig El Fadil wasn’t even his full name to begin with, according to wikipedia it is actually “Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi”.
