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Sine Nomine*

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Fijians say sorry to eaten Briton's family

This apologizing for past wrongs is getting totally out of hand. I mean, he took the comb out of the chief's head for God's sake. He deserved to become the entree.

Just another example of missionaries trying to destroy a vibrant native tradition, if you ask me.

And if I were one of his descendents, I think I'd be a little leery of attending the reconciliation dinner.

[ 30. November 2003, 17:18: Message edited by: Sarkycow ]

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Ah, but consumption was such a romantic death...

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wondering if it's the family or the Fijians who are going to get their just desserts....

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[harp music as we fade to this scene]

Missionary through interpreter: Why do you have that comb in your hair?

Chief: It got stuck three days ago and I thought it looked rather fetching.

Missionary: Maybe I can help you get it out.

Chief: No really that's all right.

Missionary: Here. [removes comb]

Chief: Um, actually, it is not permitted to touch the chief's head.

Missionary: And how was I supposed to know that?

Chief: Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Missionary: Bite me.

Chief: Bad thing to say to cannibals. Get him, boys!

[scuffle ensues; harp music over fade to black]

[ 14. October 2003, 13:51: Message edited by: Mousethief ]

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This is the best bit:

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One villager who took part in the feast was quoted in contemporary accounts as saying "we ate everything but his boots".

One of his boots is reportedly on display in the Fiji Museum.

The boot is "reportedly" in the museum? It wasn't possible to check? They just looked in the Rough Guide, didn't they?

I wish I was a journalist.

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Does missionary taste like chicken?
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This is my favourite story of the day by FAR....

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Sine Nomine*

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As long as we're on the subject...

CAUTION: Do not read this at lunch. Unless you're a cannibal, of course

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[Must stop mis-reading the thread-title as Fenians [Eek!] say sorry to eaten Britons' family ...]

(Am not a member of the DUP!)

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Sine, when I read your second article I kept wondering how, if the accounts were accurate, the Fijians avoided eating themselves into extinction. I think there must be some journalistic liberties in play.

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Sine Nomine*

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quote:
Originally posted by Scot:
I think there must be some journalistic liberties in play.

Oh surely not. Most of them were written by members of the clergy. I can't believe the clergy would exaggerate.
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Alt Wally

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This just reconfirms something that I've always believed in deeply and passionately - You can't just go around taking combs out of peoples hair.
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quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
Oh surely not. Most of them were written by members of the clergy. I can't believe the clergy would exaggerate.

Of course not. Whatever was I thinking? Perhaps I should be punished by being eaten.

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quote:
Originally posted by Peppone:
I wish I was a journalist.

First you'll have to learn how to use the English subjunctive properly.

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Sine Nomine*

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quote:
Originally posted by Plain Old Wally:
This just reconfirms something that I've always believed in deeply and passionately - You can't just go around taking combs out of peoples hair.

My mother taught me never to use someone else's comb. Now I know why.
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From Sine Nomine's second link: At Bau, the people preserve human flesh and chew it as some chew tobacco. They carry it about with them, and use it in the same way as tobacco.
Well, at least they're not smoking cigarettes. Filthy habit.
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Have you ever thought of becoming a missionary, Kyralessa?
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quote:
Originally posted by K˙ralessa:
quote:
Originally posted by Peppone:
I wish I was a journalist.

First you'll have to learn how to use the English subjunctive properly.
Well, I'm an English teacher. Don't hold your breath.

Repeat after me: Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive.

(Actually, I really don't have a scooby what the English- or any other- subjunctive is.)

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I bet the Fijians were just sorry because English food is so bland.

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quote:
Originally posted by MarkthePunk:
I bet the Fijians were just sorry because English food is so bland.

You've been watching Goodness Gracious Me again, haven't you?

Anyway, Brits have adopted curry as our national dish - try eating a chicken vindaloo and call our food bland, punk!

(In fact, if you can speak afterwards, I'll be impressed [Biased] )

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Eating you was their form of compliment. But it's one I can do without. [Projectile]

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New weight-loss strategy: Fijian cannibalism stories! Read one before every meal.

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quote:
Originally posted by Rhisiart:

Anyway, Brits have adopted curry as our national dish - try eating a chicken vindaloo and call our food bland, punk!

(In fact, if you can speak afterwards, I'll be impressed [Biased] )

Oh dear me! Brits can handle hotter food than Texans??
[Killing me] [Killing me]

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Sine Nomine*

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Ah! Now we're cookin'

BTW, apparently we taste like pork...(or Spam™, which raises some interesting speculations in my mind.)

Homo Sapiens--The Other White Meat™

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quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
Does missionary taste like chicken?

Only if the missionary is less than 21 years old.

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The Bede's American Successor

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quote:
Originally posted by K˙ralessa:
quote:
Originally posted by Peppone:
I wish I was a journalist.

First you'll have to learn how to use the English subjunctive properly.
There's a place for Peppone on Fox News. No one will notice there.

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Sine Nomine*

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quote:
Originally posted by The Bede's American Successor:
quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
Does missionary taste like chicken?

Only if the missionary is less than 21 years old.
21? I thought it was 18. At 21 they're already considered beef, in my cookbook.

And of course that's when I'd make...wait for it...a beef cake.

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quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
Ah! Now we're cookin'

BTW, apparently we taste like pork...(or Spam™, which raises some interesting speculations in my mind.)

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The link above makes many references to "soup to nuts." Shouldn't that phrase be used the other way around?

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Well, except for the eating part, the Fujiians were only a few hundred years behind the Brits and the rest of the civilized world in drawing and quartering and other assorted tortuous fun and games.

Civilization has only become "nice" relatively recently. At times. When it feels like it. [Razz]

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Kyralessa
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quote:
Originally posted by Peppone:
Well, I'm an English teacher. Don't hold your breath.

Repeat after me: Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive.

Your students must love never getting red marks on their papers.

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quote:
Originally posted by Peppone:
Well, I'm an English teacher. <snip>(Actually, I really don't have a scooby what the English- or any other- subjunctive is.)

[Eek!]

Please, Peppone, please tell me either that you're joking about being an English teacher, or that you're joking about not knowing what the subjunctive is!

Please?

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quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
As long as we're on the subject...

CAUTION: Do not read this at lunch. Unless you're a cannibal, of course

I'd advise against reading the holocaust-denying material on this site at lunch as well. Or indeed any other time of the day.

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Just the page titles made me feel a little icky.

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quote:
Originally posted by josephine:
quote:
Originally posted by Peppone:
Well, I'm an English teacher. <snip>(Actually, I really don't have a scooby what the English- or any other- subjunctive is.)

[Eek!]

Please, Peppone, please tell me either that you're joking about being an English teacher, or that you're joking about not knowing what the subjunctive is!

Please?

If I were an English teacher, I'd be sure to know a subjunctive If I were to be sitting on one.

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Sine Nomine*

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quote:
Originally posted by Eric the half a bee:
I'd advise against reading the holocaust-denying material on this site at lunch as well. Or indeed any other time of the day.

Huh? This is just a fun little cannibalism thread. What the hell are you talking about?

I seem to be missing a beat here.

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He beamed out to another thread and beamed back in. Ignore him, and do please continue with this most excellent thread.

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Lurker McLurker™

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quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
quote:
Originally posted by Eric the half a bee:
I'd advise against reading the holocaust-denying material on this site at lunch as well. Or indeed any other time of the day.

Huh? This is just a fun little cannibalism thread. What the hell are you talking about?

I seem to be missing a beat here.

Some of the material on the heretical press site you linked to is a bit dubious in nature. The links page is scary.

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Sine Nomine*

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It occurs to me that cannibals are probably without racial or ethnic prejudice, since, more than most people, they know we're all the same under the skin.

We could learn from them.

Of course there are people who're convinced, despite evidence to the contrary, that brown eggs taste different than white eggs...

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Surely brown eggs taste more natural, like bread. I mean, like brown bread is more natural tasting than white bread, not that brown eggs taste like bread. I've never heard of a blindfold taste test done on eggs.

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Sine Nomine*

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quote:
Originally posted by Eric the half a bee:
Some of the material on the heretical press site you linked to is a bit dubious in nature. The links page is scary.

Well, aren't you just Curious George. Of course one assumes they wouldn't call themselves "The Heretical Press" for no reason, now would we?

Besides you don't get a lot of options when you're searching for "Fiji" + "Cannibals".

You take what you can get.

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quote:
Originally posted by Eric the half a bee:
I've never heard of a blindfold taste test done on eggs.

I can't back this up, but I think something to that effect has been done.

Like I said, all the same under the skin. It's a small, small world. (Tying into the Disney thread.)

Of course, this brings up some interesting questions about "You are what you eat."

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What I want to know is: How did they phrase the note of apology?

I mean, this isn't something you'll find in 1001 Useful Letters for Every Occasion or Miss Manners.

Rather reminds me of a bizarre news story I read several years ago. A family was hosting a dinner party one night. Apparently a crack in a waste water pipe had been allowing sludge and slime to build up inside a wall.

The family and guests were at the table, when suddenly that wall, which was one of the dining room walls, gave way, showering everyone with it's contents.

The family offered a $100 prize to anyone who wrote the best apology letter.

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You're making that up.
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We apologize for eating your ancestor. We were having a bad day.

What's so tough about that?

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quote:
Originally posted by Plain Old Wally:
We apologize for eating your ancestor. We were having a bad day.

What's so tough about that?

Better yet, and more accurately:

We apologize for eating your ancestor. We were having a bad hair day.

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quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
quote:
Originally posted by Plain Old Wally:
We apologize for eating your ancestor. We were having a bad day.

What's so tough about that?

Better yet, and more accurately:

We apologize for eating your ancestor. We were having a bad hair day.

We need a smiley that represents a rim shot! [Overused]

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Duo Seraphim*
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quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
quote:
Originally posted by Plain Old Wally:
We apologize for eating your ancestor. We were having a bad day.

What's so tough about that?

Better yet, and more accurately:

We apologize for eating your ancestor. We were having a bad hair day.

We enjoyed your ancestor at dinner. However, we now realise it was his company and wit that we should have enjoyed. We apologise for this error.

Actually, I recall reading somewhere that Fijians beileved that a person's spirit resided in the top of their head. Accordingly, it was an aggressive act to touch someone's head.

[ 15. October 2003, 01:34: Message edited by: Duo Seraphim ]

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Peppone
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From Josephine:

Please, Peppone, please tell me either that you're joking about being an English teacher, or that you're joking about not knowing what the subjunctive is!

Please?

Sorry.


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Originally posted by K˙ralessa:
Your students must love never getting red marks on their papers.

Wo! Red pen!!!???? That's the biggest no-no in teaching right now. Not only am I not allowed to use red pen on papers, I'm not allowed to be a "talking red pen" either. None of this "I'm sorry, that's wrong. Does anyone else want to try?"

Hey, I have a colleague who was asked to stop putting ticks on her students' work. (Supposing it was ever "correct".) Apparently it was hurtful to the students who got it "wrong".

Anyway, back to those cannonballs.

[ 15. October 2003, 01:52: Message edited by: Peppone ]

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Robert Armin

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Wo! Red pen!!!???? That's the biggest no-no in teaching right now. Not only am I not allowed to use red pen on papers, I'm not allowed to be a "talking red pen" either. None of this "I'm sorry, that's wrong. Does anyone else want to try?"
I have heard this sort of stuff before, and think it is the most arrant nonsense. I feel sorry for Peppone for having to live under such a ludicrous system. Any child who got through school, let alone life, with nothing more damaging than the sight of some red ink would be doing unbelievably well.

What is more, in life we all have to cope with the fact that we get things wrong at times, our mistakes carry consequences with them, but being wrong is not (normally) the end of the world. I believe schools by and large to be supportive environments - aren't they good places to learn how to cope with being wrong? If a child enters the world of work wrapped up in so much cotton wool that they have never had an error pointed out to them, ISTM that they will have a very rude awakening indeed.

(All of the above would have been written in red ink if I were handwriting this. But it isn't as I'm not.)

[Message edited due to second thoughts about the use of the Subjunctive.]

[ 15. October 2003, 02:35: Message edited by: The Wanderer ]

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Alt Wally

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Yes, as usual, Laura meant what I said.
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