BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower

Subject: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Grimmy
Date: 03 May 07 - 12:45 PM

It's my painful duty to announce the death of Rose the Sudanese goat, beloved wife of Charles Tombe, who departed this life after choking on a plastic bag.

You may remember that local elders ordered Mr Tombe to "marry" Rose after he was discovered having sex with her. He was also ordered to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars (see the original story).

Apparently, the happy couple had one kid during their all too brief period of marital bliss (see latest story).

RIP Rose.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Cool Beans
Date: 03 May 07 - 01:01 PM

Maaaah! He's making eyes at me.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 03 May 07 - 01:27 PM

Did they have a 'nanny' for the kid?

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: MMario
Date: 03 May 07 - 01:28 PM

I wonder if he acknowledged the kid as his son? will the kid inherit?

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 03 May 07 - 01:31 PM

Depressing.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Amos
Date: 03 May 07 - 01:58 PM

Butt...buttt.......maaaaaa!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: GUEST
Date: 03 May 07 - 04:07 PM

Nice conception they have of what makes a "wife".

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Mickey191
Date: 03 May 07 - 07:21 PM

In some cultures don't you have to marry the dead wife's sister? I wonder if they're on good terms?
He won't have a hard time finding her-I heard there is a remarkable resemblance between the two.

Should we send flowers?

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Desdemona
Date: 03 May 07 - 07:27 PM

Alas, the course of true love never did run smooth...

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Cool Beans
Date: 03 May 07 - 07:48 PM

Edward Albee wrote a play about a similar situation--guy leaves his wife for a goat. She's not pleased. The wife, I mean. It's called "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" Sylvia is the goat's name. Really. You could look it up.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Peace
Date: 03 May 07 - 07:53 PM

A picture is worth . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Grab
Date: 04 May 07 - 07:57 AM

No, *Rose* had a kid. But it wasn't Mr Tombe's. Shock report headline - "Goat wife unfaithful to husband"....

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 May 07 - 10:24 AM

This is really sad news.

I feel a ballad lurking to be composed.

Will it be a parody of "The Foggy, Foggy Dew" or "Barbary Ellen"?

Charley Noble, adrift in NYC

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Desdemona
Date: 04 May 07 - 05:46 PM

I actually saw "The Goat" in Boston last year; it was pretty harrowing in the execution! While the premise inevitably produces guffaws, beginning with the subtitle's pun on The Two Gentlemen of Verona's "Who is Silvia? what is she,/ That all our swains commend her?", in the event it was actually a rather thought-provoking tragedy about the nature of "Love", etc.

In the case of the newly widowed Sudanese fellow, I can only say that the whole business makes me feel baaaad, especially for the kid; I hope they had a good nanny!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: GUEST,dishy
Date: 06 May 07 - 05:44 AM

this type of activity, is alive and active in morwell to wonthaggi. how did tombesy get done, unlucky or cock in wrong place wrong time.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: guitar
Date: 07 May 07 - 04:17 AM

That is sad when your 'wife' dies, I just feel sorry for him now.

Tom

Mind you he did have a son called Billy the Kid

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Peace
Date: 07 May 07 - 09:10 PM

Hey, MacLeod, get off of my ewe . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 08 May 07 - 08:13 AM

If he had met a nice woman and wanted to marry her would he have been able to whilst the goat was around?

If he decided to finish the goat off would this then be murder.........or could he kill and eat it?

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Dead Horse
Date: 08 May 07 - 01:17 PM

I believe he had his wife cremated.
Middle shelf. Reg 6 1hr 30mins.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 08 May 07 - 01:27 PM

At least he's free now to remarry.

Presumably this kind of thing has happened before and will happen again - I still wonder where someone would stand if they got fed up with being married to a goat (life expectancy over 15 years)! It was a punishment so maybe it was for life.

Subject: RE: BS: Bloke who married goat - now a widower
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 May 07 - 01:30 PM

surprised it doesn't happen more often.