[1520] in Humor
HUMOR: There's a good market for rubber calabashes in Cameroon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Sat Jul 13 23:01:33 1996
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:49:11 EDT
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 02:10:51 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: Peter Langston <psl@langston.com>
Forwarded-by: elshaw@MIT.EDU (Libby Shaw)
Forwarded-by: jbredt@MIT.EDU
From: the BBC World News
In the West African country of Cameroon, there is a ritualized
ceremony for banning an undesirable practice. After denouncing the
practice in a public gathering, the political leaders smash a calabash,
a large gourd. Recently, a number of people in Cameroon have begun
trading spouses, and the practice became quite popular. Ultimately, some
people who felt cheated complained to the government, and the ceremony
was held to denounce the practice of spouse swapping. Unfortunately, when
the moment came to smash the calabash, the calabash resisted their efforts
to smash it. Traditionally, if that happens, the practice cannot be
banned, and so therefore it is permitted to swap spouses in Cameroon.
