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Onkel Neal
11-18-07, 08:32 AM
Now, this is why I never travel to Third World countries... or continents, for that matter. There are still plenty of civilized places I haven't seen. ;)

Did I just marry an African chief? (http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL17419445.html)


The chief is gesticulating wildly and I see spit flying out of his mouth.
I am pretty sure I have offended him but don't understand much of the local Kuranko language, so I ask the man next to me who speaks some English.
"Oh, he's just saying he's made you his wife," he replies. "Nothing to worry about."
I'm still trying to come to terms with accidentally eating monkey last night.
I am not sure what I was expecting when I took a motorbike taxi tour across 320 km (200 miles) of Sierra Leone's eastern back roads.
But marriage and eating monkeys weren't what I had in mind.

Skybird
11-18-07, 12:09 PM
:doh: Marrying a monkey - to eat him...? :88)

nikimcbee
11-18-07, 01:58 PM
Now, this is why I never travel to Third World countries... or continents, for that matter. There are still plenty of civilized places I haven't seen. ;)

Did I just marry an African chief? (http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL17419445.html)


The chief is gesticulating wildly and I see spit flying out of his mouth.
I am pretty sure I have offended him but don't understand much of the local Kuranko language, so I ask the man next to me who speaks some English.
"Oh, he's just saying he's made you his wife," he replies. "Nothing to worry about."
I'm still trying to come to terms with accidentally eating monkey last night.
I am not sure what I was expecting when I took a motorbike taxi tour across 320 km (200 miles) of Sierra Leone's eastern back roads.
But marriage and eating monkeys weren't what I had in mind.


Next time, read the fine print on the mail order bride!;)

Sixpack
11-18-07, 02:04 PM
Sounds like a great place for the next international sub sim meet :D

kiwi_2005
11-18-07, 02:11 PM
Monkey brains for desert anyone :o

@ sixpack, Subsim Spartan :rotfl::up:

Torplexed
11-18-07, 03:08 PM
All good African caterers know ya gotta stock the monkey.

Jimbuna
11-18-07, 05:02 PM
Even Indiana Jones wasn't up to monkey meat....or was it their brains? :hmm:
:lol:

Zayphod
11-20-07, 12:56 PM
Even Indiana Jones wasn't up to monkey meat....or was it their brains? :hmm:
:lol:

"Ahhhh, chilled monkey brains."

<girl> SPLAT! </girl>

Zayphod
11-20-07, 12:57 PM
Now, this is why I never travel to Third World countries... or continents, for that matter. There are still plenty of civilized places I haven't seen. ;)

Did I just marry an African chief? (http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL17419445.html)


Brings to mind Ace Ventura.........

Bumble Bee Tuna........Bumble Bee Tuna.......