Sunday, September 04, 2005

Humorous Quirks *Updated*

Here's a funny observation about Egypt: Egyptian entrepreneurs are famous for copying Western products, and simply changing the name of the product just slightly so that it doesn't fall under copyright laws. For instance, a family here once bought a Blak and Deker toaster (rather than a Black and Decker), and it promptly broke their first time using it. Looking through our cupboards today, I came across some cookies... here is a picture of them:

They were actually pretty good, considering many copied products usually come out less than perfect.

Another humorous observation about Egypt, (which I can't remember if I've already told you about) is that Egyptians can't differentiate between the sound of B's and P's. To them, Bizza is the same as Pizza! This fact is often proven by the misspelling of various words containing B's or P's.

Here is another thing I found interesting. It's not a rip-off, it's just neat. I'm probably gonna use it to help me learn Arabic. It is none other than an Arabic dubbing of VeggieTales!!


In more serious news, the presidential elections are taking place in our city this week! After today, we are supposed to steer clear of downtown, just in case anything happens during them the elections. This is the first time there have ever been any permitted contenders for elections. In the past, it has been a ballot with only one name on it. Since people's jobs may be at stake depending on who they vote for or campaign for, it is pretty much a sure thing that the currect president will be re-elected. Anyways, enough politics for today. It's time for supper! Oh yeah, and I promised I'd show you another excerpt from that Egyptian magazine of mine. Today's excerpt is "How to get out of a relationship".

Click the picture to enlarge it!

Today for lunch I opened up a bag of Ketchup chips. Inside I found plain chips with a package of Heinz Ketchup.

Gas is probably cheaper than dirt here. The price of gas is 1 pound per litre, which brings the price to about 20 cents/L Canadian!

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