On the Dole.

Yesterday I saw something on the news about Iranian officials rejecting a planned humanitarian delegation to the earthquake flattened city of Bam by U.S. senator Elizabeth Dole. When I saw this, my mind immediately snapped back to something I'd heard years ago when Elizabeth Dole's husband Bob Dole was battling Clinton for the White House. At the time Iranian news programs and newspapers wouldn't mention Dole's name because the word dole is Farsi for penis. I did a little research and, in an archived Usenet post (or something like that), turned up what's supposed to be a Reuters piece that explains it. So if this is true, then I think the real reason for canceling the humanitarian trip was Elizabeth Dole's rude surname.