re: ridge yak & pbbear mia
oh, boy has stated a couple of times that his ancestral home is Baghdad and given what would seem to be his immense knowledge of the whole middle eastern history I'm inclined to believe him. I have no idea what religion he follows, if indeed he does. As you know I don't approve of religion. I think his reference to oriental would stem from the use of east in middle east - weren't the Egyptians the original 'WOGS' as in 'western oriental gentlemen'?
