Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 14, 2016
Transcript:
Every February, youngsters in the neighboring South Nepalese villages of Parsawa and Laxmipur hurl insults at each other and passersby in a 10 day cursing festival. Celebrating her 91st birthday on August 24, 2016, Mary Nash Ward opened a birthday card from her best friend- again. The floral card has been passed back and forth every year since 1950 and even survived Hurricane Katrina! Sheep grazed in New York City's Central Park until 1934!
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
I’d like to know where’d these Nepalese youngsters even learned such vocabulary. I’m not even sure if passers-by who are tourists would be pleased.
Marblemouth almost 8 years ago
Wouldn’t offend me as long as they are cursing in Nepalese.
Bilan almost 8 years ago
It’s not really cursing. It’s something to do with his mother and the rear end of a yak.
therese_callahan2002 almost 8 years ago
Good. I sure wouldn’t want sheep to graze near Strawberry Fields.
Space_cat almost 8 years ago
Just curse back, immerse yourself in the traditions of another culture.
clancy.4233 almost 8 years ago
Hard words in childhood can hurt forever.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Here in the USofA the “cursing festival” starts on New Year’s Day and ends on December 31!
Stephen Gilberg almost 8 years ago
FWIW, curses in foreign languages don’t all have to do with blasphemy, sex, or excrement. I heard about a Cambodian curse that means, “You are thunder and lightning!” Maybe the Nepalese have something similar.
comixbomix almost 8 years ago
Perhaps here, we could try a ten-day annual Festival where we DON’T…?
Great Wizard Nala almost 8 years ago
@ COMIXBOMIX
That’s a Fking Da.. good idea!!!
CeeJay almost 8 years ago
I have friends who take turns giving each other the same book as a Christmas gift. Neither of them has read it.
wjones almost 8 years ago
If someone curses at me I just walk away. Cursing in a conversation with me ends that conversation.
sarazan7 almost 8 years ago
They have goats at O’Hare airport.
Ripplin almost 8 years ago
Springfield vs. Shelbyville. :p
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I can imagine parents to children in that town: “Stop cussing and save it for the holiday!!”
tuslog1964 almost 8 years ago
May every tooth in your head fall out except for the one that’s hurting!
I’ve heard there are no curse words in Native American languages. So, someone asked one time what do you do if, say, you drop a rock on your foot? “Then we speak white man language.”
Then there was Calvin that called the library: I need the definition of a word, but I’m not allowed to say it. So, just rattle off all the curse words you know and I’ll stop you when you come to it!