Dear loyal readers, I have stopped straddling the Prime Meridian. It is time to mentally move back to the eastern hemisphere and resume my blue-eyesighted observations of the middle east. Today I want to pass on information you just don't get on CNN. Did you know that the Arabs love Kleenex? I googled Arabs and Kleenex and actually found information about this special relationship. This phenomenon is not unique to just the UAE....boxes of tissue abound in every country in this region. When we bought our cars, they came with boxes of Kleenex and then I noticed every car and taxi in town had a box of Kleenex. We saw them on atop cash registers and on the tables in restaurants where they double as napkins.
The abundance of Kleenex boxes is not due to some mysterious Arab need for frequent nose blowing....at least I hope not. People here use tissues to wipe their faces when it is hot outside - a practice I have learned to endorse whole-heartily.
The abundance of Kleenex boxes is not due to some mysterious Arab need for frequent nose blowing....at least I hope not. People here use tissues to wipe their faces when it is hot outside - a practice I have learned to endorse whole-heartily.
I wonder if the Pentagon knows this? If Iran gets out of hand, we just stop the Kleenex supply. I promise the country will come to a standstill.
(When dignitaries are in town, they get out the special, golden Kleenex boxes)
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Good one about the King's foot and the "ruler"... I will never forget that!!! That's what I will tell my boss when I quote something wrong... I was using the calculation based on the length of my arm times the number of hairs on my head
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