Polokwane - Three men have been charged with calling a petrol attendant a baboon.
Holy ApeSlur, Batman!
It's Banana-fana Name Game time.
Making matters worse is that this will probably be tried in a kangaroo court, unless the petrol attendant oils the palms of the bag man. Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue was probably written just to lionize such misguided monkeyshines.
And speaking of names, "Polokwane police spokesperson Lesiba Ramoshaba" may not have been called a baboon but other nicknames may have been screeched at her on the playground.
Now leroy more than trouble
You see he stand ’bout six foot four
All the downtown ladies call him 'Treetop Lover'
All the mens just call him Sir
And it’s bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog
-- Jim Croce
I've always thought that Rush Limbaugh's statement that 'words mean things' would be used against him eventually. Evidently, it's just South Africa doing it first. Let's not go ape over this, though. I'm sure they'll feel sheepish after the world press picks up the questioning.
Hmmm, kangaroos courting each other? I just got this mental image of wildlife...
..Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore-
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
--Edgar Allan Poe