Did I do the right thing?

[collier 0]

I'd been at the computer for eight hours typing out the finishing touches on a forty page research proposal and was clinically psychotic from a combination of caffeine, nicotine, the world-systems school of economic theory, and this %$@*ing obnoxious Egyptian guy at the table next to me who kept trying to get me to help him fill out his USA-visa application form. Actually, it was kind of worth being bugged by him as it generated the following conversation when we got to the part of the form where he was supposed to put his name:

Me: wi anat ismak it-talit eh? (what's your full given name?)

Him: Muhammad Atta.

Me: Bindan! (Balls!)

Him: La, walahie! (No, I swear to God)

Me: Izayya irhabee? (Like the terrorist?)

Him: Ah, howa kaana o'reebee (yeah, he was a relative)

I helped him finish the form but refused his request for a letter to the embassy on his behalf. What would you have done?

[peezey 0]

I would have run, not walked, to the nearest video shop so you could have recorded this frickin hilarious exchange in digital for all eternity.

[m&n 0]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

[peezey 0]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Is Shel Silverstein Larry's relative? Because The Giving Tree changed my life, so I'd totally write Shel a letter.

[collier 0]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Yeah, actually it is. And leave it to one of you nitwits to try and turn this into some kind of "Jewish 9/11 conspiracy" rubbish. Drooling moron of a cretin.

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Is Shel Silverstein Larry's relative? Because The Giving Tree changed my life, so I'd totally write Shel a letter.

Shel's dead love. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you.

[peezey 0]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Yeah, actually it is. And leave it to one of you nitwits to try and turn this into some kind of "Jewish 9/11 conspiracy" rubbish. Drooling moron of a cretin.

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Is Shel Silverstein Larry's relative? Because The Giving Tree changed my life, so I'd totally write Shel a letter.

Shel's dead love. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you.

dammit

posthumous letter writing campaign for his visa to heaven, then.

[mybackpages 0]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Yeah, actually it is. And leave it to one of you nitwits to try and turn this into some kind of "Jewish 9/11 conspiracy" rubbish. Drooling moron of a cretin.

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Is Shel Silverstein Larry's relative? Because The Giving Tree changed my life, so I'd totally write Shel a letter.

Shel's dead love. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you.

dammit

posthumous letter writing campaign for his visa to heaven, then.

I wonder though if being dead is a bigger red flag than others we have seen here

[peezey 0]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Yeah, actually it is. And leave it to one of you nitwits to try and turn this into some kind of "Jewish 9/11 conspiracy" rubbish. Drooling moron of a cretin.

Apparently all Egyptians speak the same way and anyone uninterested in writing a letter for a stranger, let alone one named Mohammed Atta, can't possibly be an Arab. So jumping to conspiracies is the only answer.

[sarah and hicham 3]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Yeah, actually it is. And leave it to one of you nitwits to try and turn this into some kind of "Jewish 9/11 conspiracy" rubbish. Drooling moron of a cretin.

Apparently all Egyptians speak the same way and anyone uninterested in writing a letter for a stranger, let alone one named Mohammed Atta, can't possibly be an Arab. So jumping to conspiracies is the only answer.

clearly.

[m&n 0]

[sarah and hicham 3]

meaning?

[mybackpages 0]

DEfinately Egyptian dialect there.

[collier 0]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Yeah, actually it is. And leave it to one of you nitwits to try and turn this into some kind of "Jewish 9/11 conspiracy" rubbish. Drooling moron of a cretin.

Apparently all Egyptians speak the same way and anyone uninterested in writing a letter for a stranger, let alone one named Mohammed Atta, can't possibly be an Arab. So jumping to conspiracies is the only answer.

Yeah, I've definitely got some hang-ups. Writing letters for strangers to be used at the US embassy just happens to be one of them. I guess I'm just a big wuss.

[Caladan 19]

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Yeah, actually it is. And leave it to one of you nitwits to try and turn this into some kind of "Jewish 9/11 conspiracy" rubbish. Drooling moron of a cretin.

First of all, that is not how an Egyptian talks.

Second of all, would you have refused to write a letter to the embassy on behalf of a relative of Larry Silverstein?

Is Shel Silverstein Larry's relative? Because The Giving Tree changed my life, so I'd totally write Shel a letter.

Shel's dead love. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you.

dammit

posthumous letter writing campaign for his visa to heaven, then.

I wonder though if being dead is a bigger red flag than others we have seen here

How dare you deny their love!! Don't be so judgmental of necrophilia!!!

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

I'd been at the computer for eight hours typing out the finishing touches on a forty page research proposal and was clinically psychotic from a combination of caffeine, nicotine, the world-systems school of economic theory, and this %$@*ing obnoxious Egyptian guy at the table next to me who kept trying to get me to help him fill out his USA-visa application form. Actually, it was kind of worth being bugged by him as it generated the following conversation when we got to the part of the form where he was supposed to put his name:

Me: wi anat ismak it-talit eh? (what's your full given name?)

Him: Muhammad Atta.

Me: Bindan! (Balls!)

Him: La, walahie! (No, I swear to God)

Me: Izayya irhabee? (Like the terrorist?)

Him: Ah, howa kaana o'reebee (yeah, he was a relative)

I helped him finish the form but refused his request for a letter to the embassy on his behalf. What would you have done?

Collier / Effortless. Please stop.