Who is El Diablo?

[Lawrence Ng]

Diablo - as stated in Pagan mythology is the Lord of Terror, the youngest of the 3 brothers Mephisto, Baal and Diablo.

Our El Diablo definitely strikes terror here on 2+2 and respect in that case. I don't know why he changed his name from Ulysses. I'll have to search through the archives for this one.

Lawrence

[Voltron87]

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He made a lot of money shorting the potato during the Irish potato famine.

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Really cute. You like to make Holocaust jokes too?

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Is "shorting the potato" some sort of slang for "killing jews"?

Otherwise I don't get it.

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You dont' get it since it makes no sense. During a famine, I would imagine the price would go up not down. So you would lose your shirt if you shorted it. It really has no moral issues like killing a couple million people. Now if El was using all the potatos in Ireland to power his clock radio during the famine, you could argue he is morally bankrupt

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You would want to short the stock of potato producing companies and farms.

[Subfallen]

Is Diablo really female?

Question.

[ArchAngel71857]

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Sorry if this is a newbie question but who is he? I know people are probably going to throw some joke answers here but I'd like to know the truth or at least a story or something [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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El Diablo is like a drug. You must have more and more and more of El Diablo until there is no El Diablo left. Not even for El Diablo.

Can you catch a falling star without burning your hand? Can you put the sky in your mouth? Can you say to an earthquake 'hey hold still for a minute'? Can you know the mighty ocean? Can you lasso a star from the sky? Can you say to a rainbow 'Hey, stop being a rainbow for a second'? No!

Such is .................... EL DIABLO!!!!!!!!!!

You thought WHAT? That he was WHAT? A [censored]-gay, wee-hoo? NO! El Diablo is as STRAIGHT AS THEY COME!
<font color="white"> And I think he is partying with us next time we go to Vegas. </font>
-AA

[bisonbison]

Shorting the potato is my new favorite phrase, but only because I assume it's code for "exterminating European jewry."

El Diablo is clearly the dolphin from Huck Finn.

[PoBoy321]

My figures may be off, but I think that roughly a third of the Irish population died during the potato famine, much of which was exacerbated by British control of the food supply in Ireland. There's nothing really inherently offensive about the joke, but it could be seen to be in poor taste the same way that it might be in bad taste to make a joke about selling matzahs in the '40s (or something to that effect).

[Zoltri]

El Diablo returned 1,870,000 hits on google.
This guy is famous. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]