There is a Wifi network in my neighborhood that pops up on my computer called “Escobar Network”. Every single time I see it I think “the family of deceased drug kingpin Pablo Escobar lives in my neighborhood, and they have Wifi”.
Every time.
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Deep Thoughts, By Oliver Willis
May 30th, 2008
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I’m not bothered, but aren’t you doing exactly the same thing you are criticising others for here, thus leaving yourself wide open? You can be called Escobar and have nothing to do with drugs, just like you can have Hussain as a middle name and not be a muslim/& etc.
Oh, Bryan, please. OW is talking about involuntary name association, something to which we’re all victim. He’s not confessing prejudice or stereotyping or anything else.
AB, I never suggested this. The victims of campaigns which suggest this sort of comparison with Obama probably make the same association. One cannot therefore roll ones’ eyes when that old lady says “I ain’t voting for Hussain”, if you feel these name associations are involuntary, no?
Perhaps they are just big fans of HBO’s Entourage.
Besides which, Bryan, Oliver’s not even saying that the family runs a drug cartel or implying any sort of wrongdoing on their part. He’s just noting that the name is forever going to make him think of Pablo.
He’d probably have the same response if a family named the Gorbachevs moved in next door. “As in…? Nah. Couldn’t be. Could it?”
It’s Huey’s little brother, Riley.
Quaker – if so, that would be cool, because before long we’ll be treated to video of ODub hangin’ with Thugnificent and Gangstalicious.
Which would be awesome.
Free wifi is like cocaine anyway.
Dude, it could also be former Angels’ ace Kelvim Escobar’s family.
Nothing too sinister about that. Unless you’re a left=handed batter who can’t hit a decent curve ball.