On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Amol Hatwar <[email protected]>wrote:

> Haven't you heard of Madam Mahalingam from Walt Disney's Hindi Talespin?
>

Is there a general principle that every proper noun is a profanity -- or
translates into one -- in some other language? Perhaps we could call it
Zeb's Law, after the poor Pakistani diplomat who was rejected as Ambassador
by Saudi 
Arabia<http://technorati.com/politics/article/biggest-dick-wont-be-saudi-ambassador/>because
his name in Arabic meant, well, Mahalingam.

Sajan
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