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Wednesday, April 14, 2004


   The Little Book of Bad Taste continued!
This is a continuation of my last post in which I began posting passages from a book I picked up called "The Little Book of Bad Taste." I picked out some very amusing ones this time, and so I assume you'll enjoy these ones a little more than the last ones. Not all of them are humorous really, but there is some amusement in them too.

All-time Least Romantic Honeymoons
1) A young Japanese couple, Sachi and Tomio Hidaki, were married in 1978, but they were so shy that they didn't get around to consummating their marriage for another 14 years. Sadly, the excitement of enjoying normal marital relations for the first time was too much for them and they both died of heart attacks.

2) Cesare Borgia, the son of the early sixteenth-century Pope Alexander V, had his wedding night wrecked when a practical joker switched his regular medication for a bottle of laxative pills.

3) German-born Amy Weltz went to her wedding in Brisbane in September 1993 unaware of the Australian tradition of smearing wedding cake in your spouse's face. When her new husband Chas rubbed a slice of wedding cake in her face during the reception she quickly responded by smashing a bottle over his head, killing him almost instantly.

Occupational Hazards
1) The only recorded death of an obstetrician during childbirth occurred in February of 1996. Finnish doctor Arvo Nikula was holding upside-down the newborn baby he had helped deliver when it kicked him in the right temple, triggering a fatal hemorrhage.

2) In May 1994 a French clown called Yves Abouchar died during his circus act, the first clown ever to have choked to death while receiving a custard pie in the face.

3) In April 1983 Mike Stewart, president of the Auto Convoy Company, Dallas, Texas, was standing on the back of a flatbed truck when it passed under a low-level bridge killing him instantly. At the time he was presenting a piece to camera for a TV item about the dangers of low-level bridges. (How's that for ironic?)

Rules of Etiquette
1) It is traditional for Russian cosmonauts to urinate on a tire of the bus that takes them to the launch pad, a custom initiated by Yuri Gagarin himself.

2) In Nepal, Narikot wives are obliged to wash their husbands' feet, then drink the dirty water as a token of their devotion. (What the fuck--?)

3) The typical greeting of Masai tribesmen is to spit at each other.

4) According to ancient Jewish law, bad breath is grounds for divorce.

5) Fijian cannibals usually ate with their hands, but out of respect for the dead they used a ritual wooden fork for eating people. (Respect? How about not eating them?)



That's all for now. If you have any comments, feel free to leave them. Also if you were wondering why I'm making posts like this, well here's the answer...


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