February 09, 2010

Ma'asalama

Folks,

I am heading to North Africa tomorrow morning (at stupid o'clock) to do my thing.

I will be back in a couple of weeks. The internet connection where I am staying is okay, but I am not sure if I can blog. Oddly, when I log in, Blogger morphs into Arabic and although I am able to mutter a few words and phrases, I cannot read the language yet. This makes it tricky to create a new post and I am good at breaking things, so it may be safer to not blog.

Please feel free to use this as an open thread. At the very least I will be able to read and respond to comments.

If you find anything interesting, bung a link on and we can discuss it.

Meanwhile, keep dragging stuff out into the sunlight. The gibbons in the HoC absolutely hate that.

Stay well,

CR.

PS-Ma'asalama is Arabic for "See you soon, dude".
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10 comments:

  1. Furor Teutonicus9 February 2010 at 10:50

    PS-Ma'asalama is Arabic for "See you soon, dude".

    Dhimmi!

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  2. subrosa9 February 2010 at 11:01

    Ma'asal

    I've removed the 'ama' in the hope that's the dude bit. :)

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  3. Captain Ranty9 February 2010 at 11:10

    Danke schon FT.

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  4. Captain Ranty9 February 2010 at 11:13

    Rosie,

    Beats me.

    I know that "min fad lik" is please for a man, and "min fad lak" is please for a lady. Or the other way around.

    I'm on a learning vertical here.

    (I made up the "dude" bit anyway...).

    CR.

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  5. Uncle Marvo9 February 2010 at 12:20

    Ma'asalama means auf wiedersehen?

    Yeah right. I ate one last night with a tarka dhall and an onion bhajee.

    Have a good time away, dude. Shake a rag.

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  6. Captain Ranty9 February 2010 at 12:35

    It does Marv.

    The blog heading you need to watch out for is "Goodbye".

    It means that they have me.

    As my first destination is Amsterdam, perhaps I should have said "Tot straks". But I will mainly smoking tabs at Schiphol before heading for Tripoli. Where, incidentally, I shall be mainly smoking very cheap tabs wherever I want.

    It's rare to see women smoking in Libya though. I visit the shisha cafes and the women who do get stuck in are usually Tunisian or Egyptian. And mostly very easy on the eye.

    CR.

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  7. GoodnightVienna9 February 2010 at 17:04

    Ahlan Wa'Sahlan CR

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  8. Captain Ranty9 February 2010 at 17:09

    Shukran, GV!

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  9. Mark Wadsworth9 February 2010 at 18:42

    I hope you get some nice weather.

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  10. Captain Ranty9 February 2010 at 19:33

    Thanks Mark.

    Daytime temps are around 20C and it is around 8C at night time.

    8C is tee-shirt weather in Scotland so I have unpacked all my jumpers....

    CR.

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