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Slop.@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

hubbub about "haboob"

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hubbub about "haboob"

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Slop.@hexbear.net · 10 days ago

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20250826152542/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/05/31/arabic-weather-term-haboob-is-apparently-troubling-for-some-texans/

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We don’t use them middle eastern words here!

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  ah but we use that wrong and most people just heard bugs bunny say it to elmer fudd, not realizing that it’s the hunting equivalent of responding to a bad idea with “yeah ok einstein”

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