Free associations with international figures' names: Bandar means "monkey" in Hindi
As I watch the New York Post and Washington Times (ludicrously) run with the story that Michael Moore made IIRC the most popular documentary in film history about, I'm struck with this awesome mental image because I'm doing intensive Hindi now, and "Bandar", in addition to being the Saudi prince who was W's BFF, is the Hindi word for "monkey".
(I checked, and unfortunately it's not a loanword that also means "monkey" in Arabic; it's from the Persian word for "port"
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Along those lines, back in 2001 I had a cockatiel I had named "Jibriil" (the Arabic for "Gabriel" , which was also the name of either the Taliban or Northern Alliance defense minister (I think N.A.), so whenever he had a press conferences I'd always picture a cockatiel with little epauletes on his wings and a Ghadaffi-style dictator hat and sunglasses talking about the Taliban threatening the strategic millet supplies. If anybody wants to knock up a photoshop of that, that would be awesome...