Hey! I didn't know we still did this!

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,806
edited January 2009 in The Clubhouse
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/08/png.witchcraft/index.html
Woman suspected of witchcraft burned alive

A woman in rural Papua New Guinea was bound and gagged, tied to a log and set ablaze on a pile of tires this week, possibly because villagers suspected her of being a witch, police said Thursday....

... Early Tuesday morning, a group of people dragged the woman, believed to be in her late teens to early 20s, to a dumping ground outside the city of Mount Hagen. They stripped her naked, bound her hands and legs, stuffed a cloth in her mouth, tied her to a log and set her on fire, Mauba said.

"When the people living nearby went to the dump site to investigate what caused the fire, they found a human being burning in the flames," he said. "It was ugly."...

They should have just thrown her in a lake to see if she floats.

I wonder if she turned anyone into a newt?
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited January 2009
    and people still question the existence of evil, go figure.

    the dark things man is capable of no longer surprise me in the least bit.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2009
    "WE" don't do this. Backwards "civilizations" that are 200 years behind us? Sure.

    You think burning suspected witches is the worst this world has to offer?


    (please note : I know you are, in fact, aware of the above, and much more than I am, there is no need to tell me what an idiot I am or how smart you are)
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    "WE" don't do this. Backwards "civilizations" that are 200 years behind us? Sure.

    You think burning suspected witches is the worst this world has to offer?


    (please note : I know you are, in fact, aware of the above, and much more than I am, there is no need to tell me what an idiot I am or how smart you are)

    You're an idiot and I'm really smark!

    Wanna know why?

    'Cause I would have chucked her in a lake to see if she floats.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited January 2009
    This is actually quite common in the area. The locals mostly believe that the AIDS epidemic is the result of both sorcery and witchcraft and many people have been burned alive as a result.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited January 2009
    This is actually quite common in the area. The locals mostly believe that the AIDS epidemic is the result of both sorcery and witchcraft and many people have been burned alive as a result.

    That and a lot of Python movies down there. You know, carrot noses and such.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2009
    And that, my liege, is why we know the Earth to be banana shaped.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
    strider wrote: »
    That and a lot of Python movies down there. You know, carrot noses and such.

    It was a parsnip.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
    Keiko wrote: »
    I thought AIDS came from someone who boinked a monkey. :confused:

    No, AIDS jumped species in the wild and they have records of people with AIDS like symptoms from Africa way back into the 1800's when medical records and studies first started being kept. They just couldn't identify it back then.
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited January 2009
    Jstas wrote: »
    It was a parsnip.

    Damn.

    We can now add phallic vegetables to the list of things on which you're an expert.
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited January 2009
    Jstas wrote: »
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/08/png.witchcraft/index.html



    They should have just thrown her in a lake to see if she floats.

    I wonder if she turned anyone into a newt?

    "Possibly a witch." Hah!

    What do you want to bet when all the story comes out, she was actually the village stockbroker and put all their bananas into Bernie Madden's mumbo-jumbo sorcery?
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
    strider wrote: »
    Damn.

    We can now add phallic vegetables to the list of things on which you're an expert.

    No, they mentioned it in the movie when King Arthur was extolling the virtues of his "knights" in a pep talk. Gallahad "defusing" a situation with a "bint with a parsnip on her nose".
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2009
    I would've rather been there than the 2009 Inauguration.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited January 2009
    Who wouldn't? The intoxicating aroma of sweet, sweet justice. A kegger. The oft amusing company of a simple, yet wacky tribe of heathens. I can almost hear the Benny Hill music now.

    Oh wait... is it too soon?
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
    Oh wait... is it too soon?

    Dude, I posted the story and in the same post made Monty Python references. I think you're ok.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited January 2009
    It was a rhetorical question. Anyone want to hear a Patrick Swayze joke?
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
    Anyone want to hear a Patrick Swayze joke?

    I do! I do!
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2009
    Hellz Yea! I know he has one leg shorter than the other....which may answer why he has no talent as an actor. Roadhouse rulez....I wear knife tipped work boots.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited January 2009
    Damn shame we can't light up some of the uppity freakin' newbs and throw their asses into the lake.
  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited January 2009
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Hellz Yea! I know he has one leg shorter than the other....QUOTE]

    ....and both his feet's too long.
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited January 2009
    Jstas wrote: »
    No, they mentioned it in the movie when King Arthur was extolling the virtues of his "knights" in a pep talk. Gallahad "defusing" a situation with a "bint with a parsnip on her nose".

    Damn again!

    Please replace "phallic vegetables" with "Python movie quotes" and accept my sincerest apologies.

    Should have known not to tangle with a guy that blew off the second day of Polkfest for the PA Fairy Festival...
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
    strider wrote: »
    Should have known not to tangle with a guy that blew off the second day of Polkfest for the PA Fairy Festival...

    Yeah but my companion for the day at the "Fairy festival" was waaaaay hotter than anyone at the second day of Polkfest. Besides, Al probably never would have let me in the front door of his house anyhow. I'd have to sit in the bushes out front with Doro while he muttered things about your mother under his breath. The assless chaps are nice and all but when the bushes are small and his butt hair is rubbing up against you, it starts to chaff and gets real uncomfortable. And he never shaves for me. Just tells me to stop being a little **** or it gets the hose again.
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited January 2009
    Ooops.

    I take it from the quotes on "Fairy Fest" that you may have gone to the Ren Fest. There is a Fairy Festival in PA, I really wasn't implying anything.

    My bad.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited January 2009
    Doro has sprayed me down with several of his hoses. Sometimes its the price you pay to be allowed in the presence of such greatness.

    Question... what do Patrick Swayze and fairies have in common? Think about it.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited January 2009
    Damn shame we can't light up some of the uppity freakin' newbs and throw their asses into the lake.

    Don't worry. Like a health club, most of them will be gone by February.
    There must of been about a zillion new members join around the holidays.

    Could we maybe try to see if those *sswipes on Wallstreet float?
    I think their investment skills come from rolling chicken bones.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited January 2009
    WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    This thread reminds me of the forum of old.
  • lunazul
    lunazul Posts: 781
    edited January 2009
    strider wrote: »
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Hellz Yea! I know he has one leg shorter than the other....QUOTE]

    ....and both his feet's too long.

    He's a Dancin' Fool
  • huggies
    huggies Posts: 149
    edited January 2009
    It was in Papau New Guinea, which I believe was home to some of the last known cannibals in the world.
  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited January 2009
    huggies wrote: »
    It was in Papau New Guinea, which I believe was home to some of the last known cannibals in the world.

    We've sure got our problems here, but I'm sure glad we live here instead of there!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited January 2009
    huggies wrote: »
    It was in Papau New Guinea, which I believe was home to some of the last known cannibals in the world.

    Are you sure?
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