Hamas Poor Yorick

January 27th 2006

I bought the paper today after the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections. The picture on the front had a group of Hamas members looking euphoric, but what was interesting was, one man in the near background was clearly listening to an iPod (the white headphones were the giveaway). What could he have been listening to? Here are some thoughts, in decreasing order of likelihood:

• The Killers
• Green Day: American Idiot
• Franz Ferdinand (not the band, a recording of the 1914 assassination)
• Audio book: The Five People (Not Including Your Forty Virgins) You Meet in Heaven
• Go West (bank)
• Al Aqua-eda: Al Zarqawi Girl, in Al Zarqawi World
• Wham: Baby, I'm Your Imam
• Ricky Gervais podcast
• Carpenters: Yesterday Once More (an outside bet, but he did look like he almost had a tear in his eye)

Simon Dillon also suggested Kaiser Chiefs: I Predict a Riot

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