The OTHER white meat

[CatWoman]

ok -- I'm getting really silly now. Time to get some lunch.



In 1867 Baker and eight Fijian followers were clubbed to death here and their bodies eaten in a killing historians suggest was ordered as part of a national power play between chiefs.


Since then, the fortunes of Nabutautau's 200 residents have suffered and, today, the village still has no school, no medical facilities and no roads -- daily difficulties the villagers believe are linked to their ancestors' cannibal past.


Baker's great-great-grandson, Australian Geoff Lester, was one of those to make it to Fiji for the ceremony.


The family had always known about the murder and did not believe the village was cursed as a result. But what mattered was what the villagers believed and the family was ready to help, the practising Baptist said. "I and my family are more than happy to help them in any way they want us to," he told AFP.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/fiji_cannibal

[wtmusic]

1. Terrible--no school, no medical facilities

not to mention heartburn!

[tnlefty]

2. national power play between chiefs?

Sounds like it got pretty serious....yuck.

So what are you having for lunch?

[Richardo]

3. Lunch? Not "long pig" I hope...

:D hee hee heee

[BurtWorm]

4. Too greasy for me.

Or do you think his pomade is made from a soy subsitute?