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This is Mrs. Bencours, one of my patients. She thinks she's a sheep.

Jesse Walker | 3.1.2006 10:39 AM

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I suppose this is theologically sound, as long as the goat isn't male.

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  1. Pro Libertate   21 years ago

    It's a fair cop.

  2. Mike   21 years ago

    So, if this happened in the USA would the ACLU scream about the goat's civil rights or the rights of the guy to screw the goat?

  3. thoreau   21 years ago

    Mike-

    Personally, if this happened in the USA I'd laugh.

    Just as I'm doing now.

    I don't care where you're from, that's funny!

  4. smalls   21 years ago

    So, in the Sudan, are there areas that are known for this kind of thing (like West Virginia here)? Are the Sudanese people like, "Well, you know how they love their goats in Upper Nile State."

  5. Karen   21 years ago

    I'm reminded of the old joke about the farmer who takes his son to a psyciatrist.

    Farmer: Doc, my son thinks he's a chicken

    Doctor: That's terrible! How long has this gone on?

    Farmer: 10 years

    Doctor: Why didn't you bring him in sooner?

    Farmer: We needed the eggs.

    Substitute "wife," "goat" and "milk" for "son," "chicken" and "eggs."

  6. ChicagoTom   21 years ago

    I don't know why, but my favorite line in the article is: "When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

    Just the visual of that makes me laugh. And really..some guy is fucking your goat, do you really need to ask "what are you doing there?"

  7. biologist   21 years ago

    and I suppose you think it is just a coincidence that a man married a goat after homosexual marriages were legalized in Massachusetts.

    slippery slope!

    slippery slope!

  8. smalls   21 years ago

    slippery slope!

    Hilarious!!!!!

  9. gaijin   21 years ago

    "He used the goat as his wife..."

    So now we know what this group thinks their wives are for...does the goat cook, clean and do the wash too?

    Oliver Sacks latest book "The man who mistook his wife for a goat" ...do they eat goat in Sudan?

  10. joe   21 years ago

    gaijin,

    At this moment, the goat is telling him to get off the couch and clean out the shed.

  11. David   21 years ago

    Just the visual of that makes me laugh. And really..some guy is fucking your goat, do you really need to ask "what are you doing there?"

    Sure, he might only be trying to get it back into its pen in incremental thrusts while not wearing pants.

  12. Jennifer   21 years ago

    Mixed marriages can be hard on the children.

  13. Pro Libertate   21 years ago

    I worry about the kids.

  14. Smappy   21 years ago

    Does anyone else see a gay marriage loophole in Sudan?

  15. Captain Holly   21 years ago

    At this moment, the goat is telling him to get off the couch and clean out the shed.

    Brilliant, joe. Brilliant.

  16. jw   21 years ago

    So, was it a ram or a dam? (if those are the right terms for goats.)

  17. jeffiek   21 years ago

    Will the goat get half his property in a divorce?

  18. jw   21 years ago

    Come to think of it...the usual terms are billy and nanny.

  19. jw   21 years ago

    Was the goat of the age of consent or "just a kid"? 😉

  20. brian423   21 years ago

    Mr. Tombe: I love this goat.

    Pee-Wee Herman: Then why don't you marry it, heh heh heh?

    Mr. Tombe: Because then you would have to marry a porno movie.

  21. smacky   21 years ago

    I fear that Sudan is approaching a Nanny State.

  22. Ig   21 years ago

    Not baaaaaaaaad. (said like a goat)... If he had to marry the goat, and the goat did not consent...

    Its a jump ball, ACLU, PETA...PETAACLU!

  23. Stevo Darkly   21 years ago

    So, was it a ram or a dam? (if those are the right terms for goats.)

    Ram-a-dam.

  24. ChrisO   21 years ago

    Be interesting to see him try to get that goat into a burka.

  25. linguist   21 years ago

    LOL, all...especially Brian. That was great!

  26. Jemez Hobbit   21 years ago

    .. a male goat is a buck and a female is a doe ..

    .. raised goats as a teenager .. never f*cked one, tho ..

    .. Hobbit

  27. Anonopotomous   21 years ago

    Smappy: Does anyone else see a gay marriage loophole in Sudan?

    Hilarious! I expect to see Rosie O'Donnell et al. lining up to get married in Sudan.

  28. Ken Shultz   21 years ago

    I still don't think Texas should have been allowed into the Union.

  29. brian423   21 years ago

    Thank you, linguist.

    If two women get married in Sudan, do they have to be mutually subservient? How does that work?

  30. Dogzilla   21 years ago

    Why do I keep thinking of Gene Wilder?

  31. Kevin Carson   21 years ago

    Reminds me of that punchline, "It's OK, it's only my Da-a-a-a-a-a-d."

    Or the National Lampoon pictorial "Women of the Eastern Bloc": "We have no women in Albania! Only mules! If you look at our mules, we will kill you!"

  32. Jesse Walker   21 years ago

    Why do I keep thinking of Gene Wilder?

    The item's title might have something to do with it.

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