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2010-02-24 Africa Horn

Somalias Shabaab terrorizes fashionable youth

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: al-Shabaab

#1 Poor youts. They're martyrs to fashion, I tell ya!

Posted by Spot 2010-02-24 08:12|| 2010-02-24 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I take it that the guy in the picture is colorblind.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-24 13:20|| 2010-02-24 13:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Jim, only those Africans who spend their constituents' hard-earned money in Paris boutiques adhere to Western color coordination schemes. The traditional color coordination pattern in Africa is, "The more color, the better." I have some absolutely delightful pieces of African cloth, some of them harmonizing according to the tastes of the tourists who shop in the market, and some of them in colors I would never have thought of putting together, but they work.

Posted by mom 2010-02-24 19:24|| 2010-02-24 19:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Mom, are you familiar with the "Silks of Atabathia"? and the reason "Tabby" cats got their name?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-02-24 19:44|| 2010-02-24 19:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm not, Redneck Jim. Tell the story, please!

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-24 20:36|| 2010-02-24 20:36|| Front Page Top

#6 IIRC, from the National Geographic in the 1960s, "atabi" was silk that was treated with water to create a stripy, ripply color. The cat got its name from this pattern, Anglicized to "tabby".

Posted by mom 2010-02-24 22:05|| 2010-02-24 22:05|| Front Page Top

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