There is not much in politics that is humorous, mostly just pathetic….but from time to time I run across something that makes me smile….I could write a little about the Rickets Plan or some other equally deemed important by the media….but I just cannot resist this story….

Recently the socialists won the French election and that should send the right into more about the European socialist thing……..but all seriousness aside….this is just damn funny!

CNN is reporting……

France’s new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people’s lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.

The prime minister’s last name, it turns out, sounds like an Arabic slang word for penis.

His name is Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Pronounced properly in French, the last name is very much like a moderately rude Lebanese and Palestinian term that is widely understood in the Arabic world.

The French Foreign Ministry said it was aware of the issue but had no comment. The office of the French president, sounding amused, referred CNN questions to the prime minister’s office, which had no comment.

The story echoes reports that two years ago, Pakistan wanted to appoint an ambassador to Saudi Arabia whose name sounds like an even more offensive word for penis in Arabic.

But Pakistani diplomat Akbar Zeb denied the story, telling the Globe and Mail in Canada, where he is posted, that there had never been a plan to send him to Riyadh.

I am sorry but this is just what I needed today……some of my friends have always had the opinion that the French were a bunch of pr*cks…….and now this!