{"id":5070,"date":"2008-03-04T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5070"},"modified":"2008-03-04T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T15:30:18","slug":"a_trick_questio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/a_trick_questio\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trick Question: That’s KAH-ree-yah-wah-sum"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick break here from my Groundviews posts. First, as I said in that last comment thread, the kind people in the bunker said I could stay for awhile longer! I’m excited.<\/p>\n\n

Second, my friend alerted me to a reference to Sri Lanka in a recent SNL skit:<\/p>\n\n

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Run the player until about 1:30 before the end, and listen to the foreign policy segment. Yup, that’s a reference to Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam<\/a>. He’s Sri Lanka’s permanent rep to the U.N. At least, I think he still is. \ud83d\ude42For those who cannot watch in office (although who reads SM in office? :)), a transcript:<\/p>\n\n

Fake Brian Williams: “All right. With the few remaining moments in the debate, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s turn to foreign policy.”<\/p>\n\n

[snip: exchange about officials in Russia and Nigeria, and their names]<\/p>\n\n

Fake Tim Russert: Senator Clinton, Sri Lanka\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deputy ambassador to the U.N. Who is it?<\/p>\n\n

Fake HRC: “Oh\u00e2\u20ac\u201doh\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Prasad\u00e2\u20ac\u201duh\u00e2\u20ac\u201d”<\/p>\n\n

Fake Tim: “It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a trick question. That post is currently vacant. Senator Obama.”<\/p>\n\n

Fake Barack: [considers thoughtfully for a moment] “I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe there is one at the moment.”<\/p>\n\n

Fake Tim: “Correct!”<\/p>\n\n

That’s KAH-ree-yah-wah-sum, folks. \ud83d\ude42 As of the end of last month, news stories from reasonably reputable sources were still giving him that U.N. title.<\/p>\n\n

(And it’s Gun-ay-SHAN-an-than<\/a>, for anyone wondering. Long last names, w00t.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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