TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Dubai Mystery Photo!

By TigerHawk at 10/02/2008 12:40:00 PM

I traveled from Dubai to Madrid today, the first leg a delightfully empty KLM jumbo jet to Amsterdam. I now have access to Flickr, which is blocked in the UAE against the possibility that somebody might see, well, boobs. The Dubai photos are coming, the first being a mystery photo contest. What is the blue stuff, what is the yellow stuff, and what are they used for?

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13 Comments:

By Anonymous, at Thu Oct 02, 12:48:00 PM:

Different fertilizers?

By Anonymous, at Thu Oct 02, 01:50:00 PM:

Mutant blueberries and broken bananas, for feeding to tourists.

By Anonymous, at Thu Oct 02, 02:09:00 PM:

Charcoal briquettes and sidewalk chalk . . . for drawing boobs.

By DJMooreTX, at Thu Oct 02, 02:30:00 PM:

Sulfur and some copper compound.

I'd guess used for fireworks, although I'm not aware of Dubai being a hub for that sort of thing.

But then, if that's true, why are they being sold alongside a bag of grass clippings?

By Anonymous, at Thu Oct 02, 02:43:00 PM:

Easy - you combine them to get green stuff!

By TigerHawk, at Thu Oct 02, 02:45:00 PM:

Dawnfire, you are correct that the yellow stuff is sulfur. You are incorrect as to the use of the sulfur (in this context), and you are incorrect about the blue stuff.

By Anonymous, at Thu Oct 02, 03:02:00 PM:

I'd say gardening and farming supplies, sulphur is an anti-fungal
long used for farming, the blue I cannot say but a lot of fertilizers are blue. It looks like lava rocks or charcoal briquets in one of the bins.

By TigerHawk, at Thu Oct 02, 03:05:00 PM:

Ooops, I meant DJMooreTX, and brainfarted Dawnfire82 in my comment. Apologies.

By Anonymous, at Thu Oct 02, 03:10:00 PM:

Hookah paraphernalia

By Mystery Meat, at Thu Oct 02, 04:16:00 PM:

Easy. The blue stuff is Viagra. The yellow stuff is suppositories. The black stuff is Christmas presents.

By DJMooreTX, at Thu Oct 02, 06:47:00 PM:

OK, 1 of 2; I'll take what I can get.

Are all the displayed wares being sold by the same vendor, or are those fiber bags to the left from the next stall over?

Is everything in the picture used for the same endeavor, like cooking or art?

By DJMooreTX, at Thu Oct 02, 06:52:00 PM:

Ah!

This is a dyer's stall. The blue stuff is indigo.

By TigerHawk, at Thu Oct 02, 07:42:00 PM:

And we have a winner! DJMooreTX, congratulations. You win the usual prize, glory among the smartest commenters in the blogosphere.