New French PM's name causes Middle East giggles

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Proving once again that 8th graders exist everywhere;

Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) -- France's new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people's lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.

The prime minister's last name, it turns out, sounds like an Arabic slang word for penis.

His name is Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Pronounced properly in French, the last name is very much like a moderately rude Lebanese and Palestinian term that is widely understood in the Arabic world.

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1. English translation: Johnny Pecker?

or Jack Wiener?

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3. Maybe...

...Jack Mehoffer of Bill O'Really fame.

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2. We have a Boehner and France apparently has theirs