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2006-02-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-
More bad juju.. Voodoo priests at risk as bird flu hits Africa
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Posted by Besoeker 2006-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Coming to a Haiti near you.
Posted by DragonFly 2006-02-15 00:24||   2006-02-15 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 I just hate Benin. I'm still not sure where they put Dahomey, but I think that UN should look into it, since Dahomies now have noplace to live, having been displaced by the chicken-killing Beninoise.

You too did notice, eh? Not only that, but Upper Voltans were utterly displaced by Fassy Burpkinars.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-02-15 02:25||   2006-02-15 02:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Not only that, but Lower Volta's been gone even longer. It's a conspiracy.
Posted by Fred 2006-02-15 08:17||   2006-02-15 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Dahomies live in Dahood.
Posted by ed 2006-02-15 09:21||   2006-02-15 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 All things considered, I think the voodoo priests and witchdoctors are probably the least likely of their people to get the disease, at least once the word gets around.

Why? Because they are the smartest of their people.

Think about it, they have set up a scam involving minimal work, and live high on the hog while their kinsmen sweat.

I'm reminded that down in South America, the practicing healing witches have an unofficial professional organization, which many years ago was persuaded that antibiotics are pretty darn powerful magic. So along with the colorful candles, the incantations, the cigars, etc., they give out bottles of antibiotics when they spot an obvious infection.

Meh. It's a living.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-15 11:15||   2006-02-15 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6  Priests who tear out the throats of live chickens in ritual sacrifices to Voodoo gods may risk contracting bird flu

Self correcting problem, ignore.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-02-15 14:10||   2006-02-15 14:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Dahomies live in Dahood.

LOL ed!
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-02-15 14:33||   2006-02-15 14:33|| Front Page Top

#8 It's Africa -- shouldn't they be eating the chickens?
Posted by Coffee Head 2006-02-15 16:03||   2006-02-15 16:03|| Front Page Top

#9 "We have identified the groups at risk, including fetishists,and followers of the Voodoo cult who sometimes kill animals with their teeth,"

I think it's time to rethink my career choice as a Circus Geek.
Posted by DepotGuy 2006-02-15 18:38||   2006-02-15 18:38|| Front Page Top

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