Wednesday, January 02, 2008

A Little Bit of Fun Today

We read:

"In unusually cheering news from the strange little world of ethnic apologizing, the Tolai tribesmen of Papua New Guinea have expressed formal regret for having killed, cooked, and eaten four missionaries back in 1878. The missionaries were Fijian Methodists under the direction of the indefatigable Rev. George Brown of the Wesleyan Missionary Society.

Led by the governor-general of Papua New Guinea (himself a Tolai), thousands of villagers gathered to offer their apologies to Britain's Fijian High Commissioner (i.e., ambassador), and to listen to eulogies of Reverend Brown. At press time, the issue of reparations had not yet been raised.

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