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Fiji village to apologise for eating English missionary
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| October 15, 2003
Posted on 10/14/2003 9:53:28 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead
I remember hearing a story about a Fijian who passed an english missionary in the jungle...
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posted on
10/14/2003 11:27:48 AM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Donate to FR, and I'll record a Theme Song for the next BadJoe Weekend)
To: Chad Fairbanks
"I remember hearing a story about a Fijian who passed an english missionary in the jungle..." OK... that is just wrong...
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posted on
10/14/2003 11:32:24 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
To: Mad Dawgg
No worries, mate. Things turned up in the end...
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posted on
10/14/2003 11:39:14 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
(The Truth Shall Make You Free-p)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Was the dessert Spotted Dick?
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posted on
10/14/2003 11:39:15 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(There's two kinds of people in the world. Those with loaded guns and those that dig.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
It depends. How old was the guy, and did he have liver problems?
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posted on
10/14/2003 11:45:47 AM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
(Donate to FR, and I'll record a Theme Song for the next BadJoe Weekend)
To: judywillow
Form the article:
The tribe of Nubutautau believe that they were being cursed Sounds like these guys have at least recognized the error of their ways.
Believing in curses isn't much of an advance.
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posted on
10/14/2003 11:52:31 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(People have the governement they deserve.)
To: dead
The tribe of Nubutautau believe that they were being cursed for what their forefathers had done and that a traditional apology needed to be made to Baker's descendants. Sounds like a lot of cultural progress has been made in 136 years.
To: dead
Taste like chicken!
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posted on
10/14/2003 11:55:44 AM PDT
by
Alouette
(My other car is a black helicopter.)
To: Chad Fairbanks
I remember hearing a story about a Fijian who passed an english missionary in the jungle...
Just when I think that we have hit rock bottom, someone has to dig.
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posted on
10/14/2003 11:58:42 AM PDT
by
RiflemanSharpe
(An American for a more socially and fiscally conservative America.)
To: RiflemanSharpe
Yeah, man, I dig it Daddy-o...
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posted on
10/14/2003 12:03:14 PM PDT
by
Chad Fairbanks
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To: 6323cd
I've never seen another F&S fan on FR before. You're my new best friend.
My prize possession is a copy of Donald Swann's "The Space Between the Lines", inscribed by Swann to Michael Flanders and with a bookplate from Flanders' widow, Claudia's (now deceased herself), library. The book itself is a lot of lefty, one-worldy, Quaker-y piffle, but Swann comes across as a rather kgentle and holy innocent. Quite charming, really, and much in keeping with what you might have expected from the albums and performance, but even more intelligent.
By the way, it's peculiar that, just a few minutes ago, I posted a thread on this same story, but from the BBC. Coincidence? I think not.
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posted on
10/14/2003 12:11:50 PM PDT
by
lambo
To: biggerten
We're So Sorry Uncle Biggerten
We're So Sorry If We Caused You Any Pain
We're So Sorry Uncle BiggertenBut There's No One Left At Home
And I Believe I'm hungry!
(C'mere, I gots something ta show ya (hehhehheh!))
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posted on
10/14/2003 12:13:32 PM PDT
by
camle
(no fool like a damned fool)
To: camle
I accept your apology.
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posted on
10/14/2003 12:23:09 PM PDT
by
biggerten
(Love you, Mom.)
To: lambo
Oh, sure, I've been around for a while - see #71 on
this thread!
IIRC from the booklet in my Complete F&S CD set, Swann's mother was a Muslim. Could explain some of the squishiness.
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posted on
10/14/2003 12:29:35 PM PDT
by
6323cd
To: biggerten
Only known white?? They ate the evidence.
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posted on
10/14/2003 12:30:35 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Chad Fairbanks
you can't keep a good man down...
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posted on
10/14/2003 12:36:17 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(And always let our conscience be your guide.)
To: dead
Wonder what would have happened if I hadn't paid the bill
last summer.
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posted on
10/14/2003 12:38:08 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mulliner
("Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." - George Orwell)
To: 6323cd
Around longer than I've been, and I regard myself as a relative old-timer here. Don't remember running into you before, though.
You're right about Swann's mum, and I believe he spent WWII in the medical corps in Palestine (as it then was), which could make anyone go a bit squishy.
The more I listen to F&S, the more I think Swann's might have been the greater genius. And that's saying something.
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posted on
10/14/2003 1:34:29 PM PDT
by
lambo
To: dead
Five years ago, entrepreneurs caused an uproar on the islands with a plan to sell "cannibal chutney" based on a traditional dish that once accompanied human meat at feasts. —
The Chicago Sun-Times
October 15, 2003
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fiji15.html Villagers plan apology for eating missionary
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posted on
10/15/2003 6:46:32 AM PDT
by
Free2Be49
(A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left. Ecc. 10:2 RSV)
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