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The
Daily Gyro
Updated
Daily on
Greek Time
May 2, 2005
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Christos Anesti to everyone, and welcome back to The Daily Gyro. We hope you’re
not surprised that we basically took off Holy Week with services every night
taking up all of our free time. With that said, we’d like to welcome meat and
dairy back into our lives. We’re not sure what the benefits or detriments were
to an all soy diet but we’re happy to stop reading ingredient labels for egg or
milk derivatives. We’d like to thank our sponsors again this year,
Gardenburger, Ore-ida, and Silk for providing us the closest thing to a burger
(or McRib), fries and shake that we were going to get for 40 some odd days, and
Long John Silver’s for providing lunch on Palm Sunday. (One of these days we’re
going to get guilted into sticking around for the traditional plaki lunch
after church, and should probably start working on good excuses from now.)
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In anticipation of the weekend’s Easter celebrations and mass exodus out of the
big cities, Greek Police posted over 2600 officers at key intersections to stop
speeders and drunk drivers. (We always thought that those speed limit signs
were minimums by the way people drive in the Greek countryside.) Starting last
Wednesday, police officers at major tollbooths had been handing out thousands
of free folk music CDs along with advice on safe driving. Hopefully they
avoided including the tail end of the song that traditionally accompanies the
hasapiko (a.k.a., the Zorba Dance), which speeds up like crazy at the end. Then
again, a tsamiko mix may lead to falling asleep at the wheel, so who knows.
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The Greek island of Lemnos is considering flying in a group of German weasels
to take care of a plague of wild rabbits that is responsible for the
destruction of almost 5000 acres of crops. This solution is favored over
traditional eradication methods like hunting, which have been opposed by the
Greek branch of the World Wildlife Fund as a slippery slope that could
encourage the hunting of other animals on the island. (Donkeys, Goats,
Tourists?) This solution sounds like it could work based on common sense,
because who hasn’t experienced tourist weasels chasing (cotton)tail on a Greek
island?
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Greece temporarily has withdrawn its Ambassador to Slovakia Efstathios Daras
after he was arrested in a Greek port for allegedly caring a gun, silencer, and
related weaponry in his car. In September 2004, a Slovakian newspaper reported
that the ambassador was involved in weapons smuggling from Slovakia to Greece.
Next thing you know, there will be a paper trail naming him as the kingpin of
crime in all of Eastern Europe. Oh wait, we must have this ambassador confused
with Nicholas Natchios in the comic book movie “Daredevil,” which continues to
be a staple on most of the movie channels and will more than likely continue to
be so with the movie’s stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner recently getting
engaged to each other. (While we’re on the subject of this movie, here’s a
handy viewing tip: when watching the one sequence where badly mispronounced
Greek takes place between Jennifer Garner’s character, Elektra, and her father,
the above-mentioned ambassador, flip the SAP on your TV to Spanish if available
or watch the Spanish language version on HBO Latino to actually understand what
they’re saying.)
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Due to the urging of some of our younger readers over the weekend, I guess we
have to talk about Constantine Maroulis who got kicked off from American Idol
on Wednesday. Admittedly Constantine had been on our radar from the beginning
of this season’s American Idol from having accidentally caught his audition
performance (which incidentally was in DC), and modifying the joke from MBFGW
to get you to his last name meaning, “Lettuce.” It’s not that we’re averse to
promoting awareness of Idol hopefuls both here and abroad, but that was so
2003. Some of you will no doubt remember what we inadvertently had a
small hand in launching Kalomoira’s career back when she was simply Carol
Sarantis, through the hundreds, maybe thousands of decisive
votes in her Long Island Idol contest that came from the DC
area, months before she tried out for Fame Story. But in Constantine’s
case we didn’t want to focus too much attention on him until he either made it
to the finals or got voted off. From the little we’ve read or followed on this
guy, we have to give him props for being a savvy Greek-American who was able to
use the system to advance his career. (He never really struck us as the typical
Idol pop star and he was smart enough to make sure that his back-up band didn’t
get caught up in any of his obligations to American Idol when it was signed by
a label a few weeks ago.)
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Speaking of savvy Greek-Americans, the first month of the Major League Baseball
season is over and Peter Angelos’ Baltimore Orioles are in first place in the
American League East over the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. He gets a
host of concessions from Major League Baseball when DC got the Washington
Nationals and he has a first-place team with its best start since the mid to
late 90s when he was spending insane money and the Orioles were in playoffs.
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