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17 comments to "Craziest Dictator Ever: Turkmenbashi."
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Adam
June 11th, 2007 at
3:09 am
The tone of the article, with sentences like:
‘Since then, he’s undertaken scores of self-aggrandizing – and bizarre – measures’
suggest that Turkmenbashi is still alive. He died at the end of last year and I’m not sure that all of the laws and regulations quoted above are still in force. -
Tom Morgan
June 11th, 2007 at
6:33 am
I know it’s been transcribed from a book, so I’ll cut *some* slack, but the simple fact is that HE’S DEAD! Died last year. So, uh, the whole piece reads very oddly in the present tense.
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Tom Morgan
June 11th, 2007 at
6:40 am
Err. Once again, I jump to conclusions before thinking. Damn you, intarweb!
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Runa
June 11th, 2007 at
10:58 am
That man was a genius! I’ll try to change my name in Turkmenbashi!
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phoolish
June 11th, 2007 at
11:19 am
Cute.
btw Ruhnama means “The Guide” in Persian.
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Keith
June 11th, 2007 at
1:42 pm
Absolutely brilliant! In my world, I like to call all of my friends “Keith” so that when I talk to them they immediately think about me. I also re-label local library book so I am the author. I am very well published in my town!
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meg
June 11th, 2007 at
3:50 pm
Hah. Nice, keith. Anyway I have this particular book and it was published before he died…so it makes some sense…but still!
Now if only Kim Jong-Il would join him in whatever crazy dimension insane despots go to when they die.
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Mike J S
June 11th, 2007 at
7:15 pm
Great article about all this in a current issue of The New Yorker. Very highly recommended!
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jess
June 11th, 2007 at
11:03 pm
Although he died, all his ideology still holds today. He was replaced by another dictator.
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Tinderbox
June 12th, 2007 at
1:16 am
So basically, Turkmenbashi was very much like Paris Hilton.
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AIeditor
June 12th, 2007 at
1:49 am
There was some other crazed loony leader wanting to build an ice palace in the middle of the desert.
No..it was in Florida.
It melted, so the folks turned it into a water park!
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meg
June 12th, 2007 at
3:34 pm
Tinderbox, I think a more appropriate analogy would be like Michael Jackson, what with his 50-foot robot that he wanted to build to shoot lasers into the sky. Paris Hilton may be self-absorbed, but she’s nowhere close to organized or insane enough to pull this off.
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Starstonight
June 12th, 2007 at
9:25 pm
Where can I get me some dictator vodka??
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Tinderbox
June 13th, 2007 at
1:15 am
True, meg, but what I was really referring to was the wall-to-wall Paris coverage that the media has been serving us for the past week. And after all, a 50-foot robot shooting lasers sounds pretty cool! And imminently rational, I might add. Wouldn’t we all do that if we could afford to?
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Bazwah
June 13th, 2007 at
9:16 am
I’ve had the pleasure of spending 2 weeks in Turkmenistan very recently (work related) and it is actually not that bad. Providing of course you avoid the police, get off the streets by 11pm, only drink in the 3 bars that exist for us non-Turkmenistan nationals in the capital, and of course don’t dare to take photos of anything if there is a police office/soldier near by. Just getting in and out of the country is an education - show your passport to 18 different people within the space of 150mtrs! And that was leaving!!!!
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malvo
June 13th, 2007 at
6:31 pm
ide like to go to his grave site and pinch a steamy fudge loaf on his rotted carcass.
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Juliet
May 19th, 2008 at
8:55 am
I’d SO marry him. <3
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