My enema’s enema…
Having recently learned that two independent Google searchers arrived at my blog via the search phrase “elif enima,” I decided to try this search myself… and discovered that My Life and Thoughts is the very first hit! w00t! In the spirit of good sportsmanship, though, I would like to cite some of the runners-up in the competitive “elif enima” informational sector:
Unal, E
Unal E (Elif) …. Management of enema tip-induced rectourethral fistula with gluteus maximus flap: report of a case. [My paper] O Krand, E Unal.Islam Will Replace Collapsing American Empire – alt.religion.islam …
Jul 23, 2008 …. Up your ass mohammad – Elif air ab tizak! …. As the old Arab proverb goes, “My enema’s enema is my friend”….Atlas Shrugs: Turkey’s Re-Islamization
When its hands, feet and chest are pressed Elif recites various sura from the Koran in … Accessories to Elif doll, such as a toy laptop, teach toddler to …
Well, I wish Elif Unal the best of luck with what sounds like a fascinating program of research. And I am grateful to learn the old Arab proverb, “My enema’s enema is my friend.” It must be a very severe rectourethral fistula indeed, if even your enema needs its own enema. But I was most interested by the item about the Elif doll (cf. Barbie is out, Elif is in) on Atlas Shrugs, a blog about Islam in Turkey. (Where, you might be wondering, do enemas enter (so to speak) into this subject? Check out the 110 posts tagged Kofi Annan a.k.a. Coffee Enema, e.g.: “The UN and more specifically Kofi Enema is a Jihadi tool.”)
I was especially excited to learn that the Islamic Elif doll’s toy accessory is not, say, a hairbrush or a weird collection of soccer-playing progeny, but, rather, her own little laptop! ”Islamic Elif is a graphomaniac, just like me!,” I thought. But then I found out that all her laptop does is disseminate information about namaz rituals, targeted at little girls six and under. That isn’t what I use my laptop for at all.
And in fact, the more I learned about the Elif doll, the more our interests and habits seemed to diverge. For example, if you press the Elif doll’s left hand, she recites the Sübhaneke prayer. I don’t do that. If you press her right hand, she says the 112th sura of the Koran. Not me. If you press her chest (for example, in a well-intentioned attempt at the Heimlich maneuver), you are in for a wonderful surprise: she recites the opening chapter of the Koran! If you press her right foot, she recites a Turkish chant; if you press her left foot, she recites a Turkish prayer. She sounds a little bit like my grandmother. On the other hand, she doesn’t look anything like my grandmother. Or me. Or any Turkish person I have ever seen. Unless of course you count the Amazing McKayla, whose origins, I believe, lie in a small village in the Sivas province:
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Tags: enemas, graphomania, politics, religion, Turkey, w00t!