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GSGF: ‘Crunk and disorderly’

As a longtime fan of the English language, I always am impressed with the tricks it can be made to do by Great Satan’s Girlfriend. This sentence, about an Arab-American Miss USA, in particular struck me: Rima’s dossier looks great — super hottie princess fleeing the heck out of Hiz’B’Alland as a babe (literally, ya’ll), ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

As a longtime fan of the English language, I always am impressed with the tricks it can be made to do by Great Satan's Girlfriend. This sentence, about an Arab-American Miss USA, in particular struck me:

As a longtime fan of the English language, I always am impressed with the tricks it can be made to do by Great Satan’s Girlfriend. This sentence, about an Arab-American Miss USA, in particular struck me:

Rima’s dossier looks great — super hottie princess fleeing the heck out of Hiz’B’Alland as a babe (literally, ya’ll), growing up in Great Satan, growing fully crunk and disorderly and hooking up a less rowdy, laid back PBUH in coexistence with Xianity."

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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