What do you call some of the most unlucky people in Britain?
“Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still”. It sounds like a bad joke, but .. there really are people with those names in the UK.

Joining them are Terry Bull, Paige Turner and Anna Sasin.

And just imagine having to introduce yourself as “Doug Hole or Hazel Nutt”.

Retired airman Stan Still, from Gloucestershire, said his name had been “a millstone … when I was in the RAF my commanding officer used to shout, ‘Stan Still, get a move on’ and roll about laughing,” he said.

MORE UNFORTUNATE NAMES
Jo King
Barry Cade
Carrie Oakey

The names were uncovered by researchers from parenting group TheBabyWebsite.com

1. Pakistani terrorist = Universal Thespian (Non-State actor)

2. Duplicitous Pakistani politics = Dual role thespian
(like Kishore Kumar in Lookochoori)

3. Pakistani murderor in Paris = “INDO-Pakistani member in Paris”
(Like the movie an “American in Paris”).

1. PAKISTAN THREATENED BY “NON-STATE ACTORS”: SAYS ZARDARI
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[PTI, per Hindusthan Times, 24 Feb 2009]

Under attack from the global community for its inability in containing terrorism emanating from its soil, Pakistan on Monday said the country is threatened by the ‘non-state actors’ and sought China’s help in eradicating the menace.

…. and silly me thinking that the closest to a ‘universal thespian’ were Yul Brynner and Max von Sydow for their command of numerous languages and stellar and polyglot performances in movies of many countries. No, stupid. Its the 1m Pakistani terrorists wielding Kalashnikovs and scimitars !!

2. US SHOULD NO LONGER SUPPORT DUPLICITY OF PAK: US CONGRESSMAN
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[The Hindu, 24 Feb 2009]

An influential US lawmaker has said that the America should no more tolerate the ‘ duplicity’ of the government at Islamabad.

Congressman George Miller charged the previous George Bush administration of ignoring the “dual roles” played by the Pakistani military and intelligence … “In Pakistan, we can no longer suffer the duplicity of that government”

Another Congressman Ed Markey expressed concern over the recent developments in Pakistan including release of A Q Khan and peace treaty in the Swat Valley.

(Again, silly me, thinking that a dual role is akin to Gurudas simultaneously playing the part of Ramakrishan and Banakshepa in the same movie, or Kishore Kumar in Lookochoori. Or Dilip Kumar in Ram and Shyam. Rajendar Kumar did something similar. we Indians have a host of such luminaries on our silver and crayon screens.

But they are all hopelessly outclassed, outenacted (ehhh?) and outwitted by the incomparable genius of that holy trinity, Zardari, Musharraf and Durrani.

“INDO-PAKISTANI” LABEL IN PARIS MURDER DRAWS EXPATRIATE IRE
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(The Hindu, 24 Feb 2009)

Paksitanis are giving us a bad name”, say Indian expatriates

The term is meaningless and its use is unfortunate, says journalist

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Paris: French police arrested six Pakistanis, including one woman, after the killing of a French off-duty policeman late Saturday in the Paris suburb of Courneuve. The policeman’s service revolver was found near the garbage bins of the building in which the six Pakistanis live.

However, media — including newspapers, radio and television — citing police sources identified the six arrested people as belonging to the “Indo-Pakistani community”, a term which has angered the Indian community here.

Angry calls

As a result, The Hindu’s office in Paris was flooded with angry calls from the Indian community. “I take great offence at the use of the term “Indo-Pakistani community” to describe people who are purely Pakistani nationals,” said a caller who identified himself as Naresh. “It would be the same if a French or German person arrested in India were to be referred to as belonging to ‘Franco-German or Franco British community’ simply because the two countries happen to be neighbours. The Indian community is completely separate from the Pakistani community and the two have nothing in common. We belong to different sovereign countries.”

A woman caller said: “The Pakistanis here are giving us a bad name. They are involved in all kinds of trafficking and it is suspected that this policeman was in some way linked to an extortion racket with those arrested. We should not be lumped with the Pakistanis simply because we come from roughly the same geographical area.”

Gilles Poux, Communist Mayor of Courneuve, was quoted as saying: “There appeared to be a quarrel between people belonging to the Indo-Pakistani community. Many shops in this busy locality have been bought by members of this community.”

[All of the above can be reviwed by visting samachar.com and viewing the relevant online paper]

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