Sudsy Goes to Istanbul!
Oregon Commentator operatives are currently in the process of infiltrating major political and economic centers across the globe. Sudsy has already been spotted in China and Washington, D.C. Our latest dispatch comes from agent Matt Perreault, who was cool enough to take the time to upload a video of himself and Sudsy O’Sullivan hanging out at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul:
I am also reasonably confident we will soon be receiving intel from operatives stationed in Kazan and other key locales around Russia. The Conspiracy(tm) continues!
Matt’s a good guy and has done Sudsyphiles the world over a great service.
Istanbul was Constantinople now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople.
In either case, it’s the largest city on the European continent I believe.
Not to be a smartass, but even though Turkey is in the EU, does it qualify as part of the European Continent? I always thought Turkey was part of Asia.
“I always thought Turkey was part of Asia.”
Part of it is.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
“Constantinople was Byzantium now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Note here that Istanbul is on the European continent. : )
A lot of people don’t realize that, but many will argue over the point.
As for Constantinople…wasn’t it made such because Constantine was the leader of the century? hehe He made the likenesses of Jesus Christ in ‘his’ churches (note: under his reign) to look like him too…talk about a coup!
And Turkey isn’t in the EU…yet.
As I understand it, Byzantium was an older Greek city that Constantine chose to be the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire (hence the name “Byzantine Empire”, which to my knowledge no one at the time referred to it as). Being such a modest sort of guy, he named the new capital after himself.
Then after awhile, Turks started moving into the area and they called Constantinople “istanbul” which translates roughly to “the city”. No one booted the Turks out, so the name sort of stuck.
“no one booted the Turks out, so the name sort of stuck.”
understatement of the millenium? hehehe
Well, it wasn’t for lack of trying. Istanbul’s a long way from Moscow, though.
I heard Sudsy saw senators Jones and Latteri converse over a possible slate forming in 2009 while Jones’ sudsy-tank-top hung over her bed post. Sudsy may have confused Nick Schultz’s Chief of Staff David Griffin for Sen Latteri– the lighting was too low and there was a lot of hair on whoever was in bed with Senator Jones.
how poetic
Is this foreshadowing another Take Back Campus campaign-like event? Come on, I thought the back door politics were over!