Actually, that was a plot element in Voltaire's Candide. The chaperone could not ride a horse well because she lacked a butt-cheek - and then she told the story.

Jan

I love it, Herb! That's hilarious! In my younger days I used to read a lot of Alister Crowley. This reminds me of a story about he and 5 other people going into the mountains and only he came back. It is said that he ate them, and that he was crazy. Maybe not, perhaps he was studying Muslim as wellas Satan worship. I can see the similarities. Lol. Got my chuckle for the day.

Hannibal took revenge on rude people by killing them and eating their brains, but this was a fictional character, for crying out loud. At Donner's Pass our American pioneers had to resort to cannibalism so at least one survived. We hear of shipwrecked people in lifeboats drawing lots of who would get eaten first so the others would survive. These are extreme cases, not the norm for civilized societies.

Butt cheeks at least are surplus material that can be taken without killing the donor. Humans don't know what they are capable of when driven to the brink. The survival instinct is the default setting when anything goes. In today's world such degrees of desperation should not ever occur if we'd stop having wars and took rational steps to avoid famines and epidemics, providing an environment of productive stability and prosperity.

that's what they need to mellow out -- Wine!!! -- j

Could title the book "Up Yours" !!!

Up Your

I don't know what to say...."giggle" seems inadequate.

Jan

Nope on the 'man genetically closer to pigs than to monkeys' part. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_... - the relevant chart is about 2/3 of the way down) But I agree that we are receiving a barrage of random fatwas. It might be interesting to keep track of the inconsistencies.

Jan

That is why it is so important for the Muslum wives to be devout, so that they may not taste like pigs!

they have fatwas for things which seem to conflict
with common sense, if I can still think straight enough
to touch common sense after reading about
all of this lying. -- j

I tasted it heavily salted before posting, and found
that it was so outrageous that it was interesting. -- j