/`] What's in a name (or three)?

Eric recently sat in for David Letterman, and his opening monologue went something like this:

"We should have known that Iraq was no threat. Just look at the names of their tribes: Shiites, which in English, means 'like women'. (here Eric waited a beat) Not that there's anything wrong with that. "

"Sunnis - a really scary FM radio station? (here Eric dropped into his announcer voice) 'Hey, Sunni 108.5 comin' at you from beautiful downtown Baghdad.' And their Baath party - sounds like a pool party, plus rubber duckies."

"And Kurds - if you're going to go with a Miss Muffet theme, at least choose the spiders."

"Who worries about secretarian violence? What are they going to do, throw their Day Planners at you?"