Almaza – between a deja vu and a reference past its selling by date

I do know you’ll not consider me however this pun has been performed earlier than. All proper, first the Almaza pun “Almaza aw la aha – wala sabt”. This, consider it or not is a double pun. The primary is “Anta aw la ahad” the primary Mexican telenovela which opened the floodgate to dubbed applications (In Mexican it was “Tu o Nadie” and it launched the Lebanese to “Raquel” – or Lucia Mendez making “Corazon de Piedra” (the title observe of the telenovela sung by Mendez) a ubiquitous hit again then and I’m taking 1991 right here).  Please observe, anybody who’s youthful than my very own era has this pun misplaced on them as nobody is conscious of it. 

The second pun is a wordplay on the phrase “Ahad” which suggests each Sunday and Particular person in Arabic. So the road means “Almaza or nobody/Sunday” which continues into “or no Saturday”. The difficulty, this has been performed earlier than by the Al Mustaqbal newspaper (now defunkt) in its Sunday version advert:

“Nobody/Sunday stands in the best way of the long run (Al Mustaqbal means future)… and no Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday…”

Advised you, it has been accomplished earlier than.

So between solely choose generations will perceive and one which has been accomplished earlier than – Almaza brings little to the desk