The 6 Lines Signature
June 11, 2011
‘’Dear friends,
Yesterday I was telling my husband that I need a Users’ Manual to deal with the different Arab species, sorry I mean ‘’citizens’’, as I was checking my e-mails and getting a dozen of these messages signed with something like:
‘‘Ismail Isaac Jacob the third
Journalist, Blogger,
MA candidate at Mazbala University,
Editor of Big Fat Ego Magazine,
President of Mosquitoes and Flies Association,
Political and social activist’’
I don’t know if you get irritated, me I really do! Because I try hard to understand why a person would have a 6 lines signature, but I find no explanation other than the evident fact that this person has a serious inferiority complex and a big fat Ego.
It gets even funnier when these people, who generously share their CVs with us on their emails, are actually none of these things! And for someone who spends 4 years of her life studying journalism and plenty other years working as a journalist, I get really offended how these people can pretend belonging to this job just because they take some pictures at a concert and update daily their facebook status! I am sure real bloggers, civil society professionals and researchers get as offended as I do.
The worst part of it is that in the Middle East it is a way of promoting yourself, AND IT WORKS! As people tend to believe you when you pledge being Mister, Professor, Doctor, Bacha, Beih, 7afidaho Allah, and will never look after your real value! Then after sometime it will become the absolute truth and you will start getting invited to conferences and interviews as the ultimate expert in Mosquitoes and Flies affairs of the country, and at the end you will hand out proudly your business card with your 6 lines, a logo with your name and the address of your website www.IsmailIsaacJacobthethird.org . I swear it’s not a joke! I got many of those in a shelf somewhere.
I think that a person, who even pretends to be this great social figure, should have some sense of humility and ethics, and face the fact that they have an EGO problem!
Sincerely,
Sarah’’
WORDS FOR CHANGE 
As a blogger, those kind of insects do not offend me as I do not care of their existence .
or as we say in Morocco : Majayb lihoum khbar.
Anyways, It’s a nice article,It made me laugh at this huge amount of human foolishness.
and Remember what einstein said
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe”
Living in the U.S., I’ve known several people with doctorates, including physicians, who quite emphatically say: “Don’t call me ‘Doctor'”. Those who have it don’t flaunt it.