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Indian dad avoids washing for 35 years: report
Yahoo News ^
| May 12, 2009
Posted on 05/12/2009 4:58:23 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
An Indian man who fathered seven daughters has not washed for 35 years in an apparent attempt to ensure his next child is a boy, newspapers reported.
Kailash "Kalau" Singh replaces bathing and brushing his teeth with a "fire bath" every evening when he stands on one leg beside a bonfire, smokes marijuana and says prayers to Lord Shiva, according to the Hindustan Times.
"It's just like using water to take a bath," Kalau was reported as saying. "A fire bath helps kill germs and infection in the body."
Kalau, 63, from a village outside the holy city of Varanasi, outraged his family by refusing to take a ritual dip in the river Ganges even after his brother died five years ago.
"I still don't remember how it all began," he said in Saturday's edition of the paper. "I just know it started about 35 years ago."
Kalau's hygiene regime has taken its toll on his professional life.
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To: COUNTrecount
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:00:53 AM PDT
by
angkor
To: COUNTrecount
Wow. That’s longer than Hillary.
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:01:20 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: COUNTrecount
Kalau's hygiene regime has taken its toll on his professional life.I can't imagine why.
Nor can I imagine him fathering that son he's always wanted.
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:01:55 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: COUNTrecount
He wants his next child to be a boy?
His poor wife!
EWWWWWWW!
To: COUNTrecount
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:03:36 AM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: COUNTrecount
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:03:48 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: COUNTrecount
oh but they’re all the same as us, we all have the same basic ethics & understanding of what’s right.... /s
“the holy city of Varanasi”
“holy city” bullcrap annoys me. especially when pushed by a news org as an implicit premise
To: angkor
I swear that guy sat in front of me in high school. The insects buzzing around his greasy hair was almost as distracting as the odor.
To: COUNTrecount
I think he has a whole bunch of relatives living here in Ontario.
To: COUNTrecount
...replaces bathing and brushing his teeth with a "fire bath" every evening when he stands on one leg beside a bonfire, smokes marijuana and says prayers... And I thought I was the only one.
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:11:18 AM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: COUNTrecount
To: chuck_the_tv_out
“holy city” bullcrap annoys me St. Louis, Sioux Ste Marie, St. Petersburg, Saint Paul, Holyoke, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles...
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:13:31 AM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
Lost cousins?
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:14:58 AM PDT
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: Sender
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:15:26 AM PDT
by
WVKayaker
( God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.- Arth. C. Clarke's shortest story)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
How old is his wife?
Who nose?
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:15:26 AM PDT
by
COUNTrecount
(http://obamaclock.org/)
To: angkor
Don’t Sikhs wind their hair up in turbans forever, never cutting it? With a name like Singh, perhaps this fellow is just pushing that particular envelope.
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:16:02 AM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: COUNTrecount
The marijuana part sounds like it might work.
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:19:22 AM PDT
by
Krankor
(iT EMINDS ME)
To: COUNTrecount
Kalau's hygiene regime has taken its toll on his professional life. Ya think?
To: COUNTrecount
I think took a ride in his cab last time I was in in Manhattan
.
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posted on
05/12/2009 5:29:10 AM PDT
by
Elle Bee
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