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Sunday, June 08, 2003

You can't make this stuff up Dept. Iraqi car dealers are calling Toyota Land Cruiser SUVs "Monicas."
"She's a beautiful girl, and it's a beautiful car," said Ghazi Abdullah Dormari, whose auto-trading lot in the Kurdish city of Irbil features several late-model Monicas.

"They are a very tempting car," said Marwan Shaban, an auto dealer in the nearby northern city of Mosul. "Just as Monica tempted Clinton, they will tempt you."
As Reason's blog points out, "Iraqis are naming their cars after a world-famous Jew."

Is this the kind of stuff that's bothering you, Jeanne? (I have a comment about 2/3 of the way down.)