Sudan

A country in northeast Africa centered in the upper Nile (where the White and Blue Nile merge), capital is Khartoum. It has endured a long civil war between the Arabs of the north and the Black Africans of the south and west, which has resulted in genocide, rape, slavery and other atrocities. The name is Arabic for 'black people'.

Sudan is the Mississippi of the Middle East.

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Fox News liberal

Someone who claims to be a liberal or Democrat, but has positions and a voting record reflecting that of a conservative or Republican. See also DINO.
One who is often called a "Fox News liberal" is Alan Colmes, co-host (with Sean Hannity) of Hannity & Colmes; he is criticised by liberal commentators, including author and talk show host Al Franken, as weak and unable to effectively debate his decisively conservative counterpart.

That op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal is the weakest rebuttal to the pro-Bush article he was trying to refute. He's a milquetoast Fox News liberal if you ask me.

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fifth column

A group within a state that attempts to subvert and weaken the state in order to assist an enemy. First used during the Spanish Civil War.

The characterization of leftists in the United States as a Communist 'fifth column' by the McCarthyist witchhunters survives today in post-9/11 America; only now Arabs and Muslims are blacklisted.

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pu pu platter

An assortment of Chinese appetizers like egg rolls, fried wontons, tempura shrimp, skewered teriyaki steak, etc.

A pu pu platter is not what you think.

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Greyhound

1) A Dallas-based bus transportation company that carries passengers and packages throughout the US and bordering areas of Canada and Mexico. 2) Travelling cheaply and discreetly, such as one might do coming home from Vegas after losing all his money.

Guess I have to go Greyhound to Mama's house this year; I can't even afford Southwest Airlines.

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Egyptian

1) A person or thing from the northeast African nation of Egypt. Refers to the ancient people of the lower Nile Valley (Kemet) and their modern-day descendents, the Copts. Also the Nubians of Middle Egypt, the Berbers of Siwa in the western part of the country, or the Arabs who colonized the country shortly after the birth of Islam.

2) Either the ancient language of Egypt and its hieroglyphic script and its deriatives, or its latest form, Coptic, or the Egyptian dialect of Arabic, which has 'g' instead of 'j' and a glottal stop instead of 'q'.

3) A very old but well-preserved person.

4) Someone from a very far away place. See BFE.

1) Tutankhamun and Muhammad Ali were two famous Egyptian leaders.

2) The inscription is in a later form of Egyptian, written in hieratic script, which is simplified hieroglyphs.

3) Dick Clark is such an Egyptian.

4) Dude, we're lost. The people here are such Egyptians.

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garden

A highly euphemistic term for the female genitalia.

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
-- Bible, Song of Songs 4:16

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