२१ डिसेंबर, २०१७

Man arrested for brandishing his toupee as a "Tasmanian Devil" to torment his son-in-law.

“He walked in as I was already there... He removed his wig, made hand gestures. It’s just a very large fear of mine, his damn wig. Him and his hair reminds me of the Tasmanian Devil hair. I truly and genuinely have a large fear of wigs now. It’s a genuine fear. I have nightmares."

36-year-old Mazen Dayem told the NYT Post.

What's the crime? No crime needed. Dayem had a restraining order.

By "Tasmanian Devil," he doesn't mean the Australian marsupial:
He means the Warner Brothers cartoon character:
By the way, there is a such thing as the fear of wigs. The word for it is (oddly enough) "maliaphobia."

२५ टिप्पण्या:

Churchy LaFemme: म्हणाले...

The irony is that McKimson's Taz is not dangerous at all.

As long as you are Bugs Bunny...

Sprezzatura म्हणाले...

Nice pic of the devil, but I thought all y'all Madisonians called that rodent looking thing a badger?

Mark म्हणाले...

Unless it was a no-contact order, that restraining order is BS.

David म्हणाले...

Getting a restraining order against your wealthy father in law is bad financial planning.

David53 म्हणाले...

I just got back from a trip to Tasmania. I learned many Devils suffer from a form of transmissible cancer. They transfer their cancer when they bite each other during the mating season. I did not know cancer could be a transmissible disease. Fascinating animals.

Rob म्हणाले...

No tag for "brandishing"? It's the new garnering.

Bill, Republic of Texas म्हणाले...

Taz wasn't scary at all. His wife was a horror.

wholelottasplainin म्हणाले...

There's another kind of "fear of wigs", called merkinphobia.

Look it up!

pious agnostic म्हणाले...

I have a deep fear of merkins, so I get where this guy's at.

Ken B म्हणाले...

Nice to see the word merkin in use. Tony Soprano uses it in an episode, correctly, in a throw away line that is very funny.

Speaking of, what's keeping Chuck under wraps?

gspencer म्हणाले...

Sounds like a girlie man.

Might have a racist meltdown if he met someone with a real afro?

http://sonyaclark.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/sonyaclark/php/timthumb.php?src=http://sonyaclark.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/afro_abe-2.jpg&h=470&w=720&zc=1

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Obama named his daughter Malia.

Unknown म्हणाले...

No love for Wombats?

Ambrose म्हणाले...

I bet it was worth it

Gaijin42 म्हणाले...

Malia is just the Greek word for hair.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent म्हणाले...

There are an amazing number of flat ridiculous pseudo-adults in the world. It’s weird that I hardly noticed them until middle-age.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

So Obama named his daughter after the Greek production of a 1960s rock musical?

FullMoon म्हणाले...

Headline insinuated Trump and Kushner. Relieved.

YoungHegelian म्हणाले...

Bill,

Taz wasn't scary at all. His wife was a horror.

I now pronounce you devil & devilish.

walter म्हणाले...

'Shitter,
That photographed Taz looks nothing like a badger.
Quite intrusive to snap a pic of it right as it's about to pinch a loaf.

Dr Weevil म्हणाले...

Is malia the Greek word for hair? Looking at the unabridged Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell, Scott, and Jones, it appears that maliophobia with an O in the middle would be the fear of long hair or pigtails (singular malion, plural malia), while maliaphobia with an A in the middle would be the fear of glanders (a horse disease - malie in Greek, which in some dialects would be malia). Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary gives prósthetai komaí (=prosthetic, i.e. added-on, hair), so he seemed to think there was no single Greek word for wig.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

What do you call the irrational fear of a comb-over? Half the country suffers from that.

Unknown म्हणाले...

College Football Bowl 2018

College Football Playoff

Peach Bowl 2018

Fiesta Bowl 2017

Citrus Bowl

OutBack Bowl

Liberty Bowl

Taxslayer Bowl

Sugar Bowl 2018

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NFL Playoffs

Wince म्हणाले...

"Oh, my god, that's a giant bush!"

virgil xenophon म्हणाले...

When my Father was head coach of the Eastern Ill BB team in the 50s/early 60s he had a center who had an imaginary Tamanian Devil "pet" he called TAZ and kept the team in stitches with his "conversations" with it on long road-trips on the team bus. After a while "TAZ" became his knickname as well. I can well remember games where, when Ken (Dad's center) had the ball and other players who were open for the shot calling out TAZ!!