BS: The spirit of reconciliation

Subject: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 06:44 AM

A lesson to us all...

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 08:37 AM

Little Johnny Howard TAKE NOTE!

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Amos
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 08:51 AM

Never eat your guests. It is bad for morale.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 09:08 AM

Please don't lector me on this. I can't alferd to be a cannibal, even knowing that one man's meat is another man's person.




(Well, no, I'm *not* at all sorry....)

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 09:30 AM

What do the relatives hand over at this ceremony in return - Alkaseltzer?

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 09:51 AM

Interesting story. I hope their apology works.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 10:26 AM

Will they be serving fava beans and chianti?

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: LadyJean
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 12:06 AM

In a way the missionary is still part of the Fiji tribe, I suppose.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 03:07 AM

reminds me...i'm kinda hungry....

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Gurney
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 04:02 AM

Just a bunch of regular anthro-proper-guys, eh?

(Michael Flander said it, and it sounds better than it reads.)

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 10:53 AM

Two cannibals eating a comedian. One looks at the other and says, "This taste funny to you?"

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: GUEST,Strick
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 11:21 AM

In the US this kind of long term bad luck is generally assoicated with baseball and usually involves either a goat or a semi-obese pitcher turned home run hitter.

So far none of the formulas for reversing the bad luck have worked here. Perhaps this is because the natives of Fiji are more sophisticated than superstitious baseball fans.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 04:41 PM

Perhaps they should eat the Pitcher?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 02:40 PM

You want fries with that?

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Dave Swan
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 02:44 PM

So this cannibal passes his brother in the jungle.......

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: PeteBoom
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 02:59 PM

And THAT is why I don't eat turkey....

Pete

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 06:36 PM

Hear about the cannibal skipping through the jungle singing "Things go better with Coca-Cola....?" Or the cannibal who asked his friend, "Watcha doing?" and getting the response "Having a ball."?


It's just as well you didn't.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Gareth
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 07:09 PM

Ahhhhh ! And the PC Brigade says canibalism never occoured !

Gareth

PS Personally I'am all in favour of burning enemies in Wicca Cages.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 09:03 PM

Never occurred? However do they get around solid forensic evidence, including the testimony of participants (eaters, not eatees).

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 09:09 PM

"Wicca cages"?

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peg
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 02:42 PM

I think Gareth means, like the one in the film The Wicker Man...so, wicker cages?

nothing to do with neo-pagan witchcraft, or Wicca, tho. ;)

I am fascinated by the Donner Party stry and wish someone would make a new film about it.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peace
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 07:27 PM

Yeah, wasn't that a party?

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 07:33 PM

Possibly not neo-pagan - but old-style pagan, maybe that's another matter.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: musicmick
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 09:08 PM

As the old saying goes,"You can't keep a good man down."

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 10:49 PM

Please, please refrain from making these awful jokes about cannibalism. I very much regret my contributions to this thread, and have achieved a heighten consciousness of the political correctness regarding this subject. Eating other human beings isn't considered to be the best taste, you know. Even if you're pulling someone's leg, this is getting out of hand. I forebear to even discuss someone's "goose being cooked" or "getting a head." Restrain yourself, for otherwise I'm afraid that this will become disjointed instead of well-done and we'll never dig into the meat of the subject.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peace
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 12:31 AM

I too can no longer stomach this thread. It's sick. (So, what's a joint like this doing in a nice boy like you? Will you have buns with that?) It's well-thigh, sorry, well-nigh time to move on, armed with a greater sense of purpose, with a taste for decency. Humans eating humans: doesn't anyone think of f*****g anymore? You're a man in need of help, Rapaire, help. Next you'll be singing the old Simon and Garfunkle song, "Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver."

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 12:42 AM

It's "Fifty ways to eat your liver." Tsk, tsk, I guess it's a rare person who makes no miss steaks. Well, these days I guess a good chop in mouth is about all we can ask for, hmm? Anyway, Brucie, try not to stew about it if it makes your blood boil -- you may not have the guts.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peace
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 01:13 AM

I can't top that, Rapaire, so here's a gooder for you.

Guy walks into a butcher shop and says, "Give me a pound of kidley, please." The butcher say, "What?" "Give me a pound of kidley please." "Butcher screws up his eyes and says, "Huh?" Guy yells, "Give me a pound of kidley." The butcher replies, "Oh. You mean kidney don't you?" Guy says, "That's what I said, diddle I?" Have a good evening, Rapaire.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: musicmick
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 03:59 PM

Well, good for you, Rep. You are, obviously, no mere flesh in the pan.
(Donner! Party of two!) I suppose this means the only difference between an enemy and an enema is oriface. (I gave at the orifice?). Actually, canibalism is not as barbaric as it appears. If one is to kill one's enemies, why shouldn't they eat them also? Every other animal does it. It is ecologically sound and I can't imagine that the eating is crueler than the killing. In fact, this might be the next step in recycling. Besides, what better way to rid ourselves of fortune tellers? Of course, it's rare to see a medium, well done.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peace
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 07:15 PM

At the Cannibal Cafe: Table for a party of eight? Uh, seven? Uh, six? Uh, so, you'll be dining alone?

Gives new meaning to "Eat your heart out!"

Burp. Don't remember eating that. Good, though.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Gareth
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 07:15 PM

Aaaah - Lttle Hawk, I weep

I try to make a pun out of Celtic and Mother Earth History, and it goes astray !!!!

Wicker = The cages the Cymry built to burn thier sacrificial animals, and tribal enemies in.

Wicca - The ancient earth goddess (= Mother Earth) a religion akin to druidism.

Or to get it into a musical contect - here are two verses abstracted fron the "Give Me that Old time Religion" website Click 'Ere

"Oh the Welsh gods, -you- announce 'em
Asking my gods to renounce 'em      
But our gods, I can't pronounce 'em
Being tongue-tied's not for me!      

Wrap your sacrifice in wicker         
It will make the flames burn quicker   
Tho the smell makes some folks sicker
It's still good enough for me! "

And no it is not true thatr my comotes symble is a Sheep. We have better things to do with the 'Woolly Backs' than burn them.

Gareth (aka Garydd ap Godfri ap Ben ... Continue for several hundred ancestors) - Or Click 'Ere

Why we Brits bothered to defend you from American Aggression in 1812 ...... etc **BG**

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peace
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 07:44 PM

And thank you for that, gareth. They were really pissed that we burned the White House. We were gonna get our peepees slapped big time. From a grateful Canadian. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 07:46 PM

Back in the dim, distant past, there was a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon in which Calvin asked his teacher is they could debate the question about whether a murderer who ate his victim should be given a lighter sentence than one who didn't because the first was less wasteful than the second.

Unlike most carnivorous or omnivorious species, homo sapiens has mores about eating members of the same species.

Which, I suppose, is fortunate when you consider the male grizzly bear, who has been known to eat cubs so that the mother would go back into estrus. I mean, what a lousy pick-up technique!

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peace
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 08:01 PM

Especially in Chicago. It would make the team nervous!

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Cluin
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 08:23 PM

This thread keeps getting dahmer and dahmer.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 09:05 PM

Jeff was just another one trying to get ahead. It all started, of course, when a friend gave Jeff the finger. He explained himself by claiming his right to "keep bare arms."

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Peace
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 09:15 PM

A farewell to arms as it were. Gotta ask, does it taste like chicken?

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: musicmick
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:29 AM

While we're on the subject, what does chicken taste like to a chicken?

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 05:31 AM

Never to be outdone, the BBC have posted the actual report, here. There is also a nice set of stills, here. Now don't say I never give you anything.

Subject: RE: BS: The spirit of reconciliation
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 08:02 AM

Oh, it was a report on the reconciliation ceremony. I thought...well, never mind. (Never could get the stills to show.)