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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: ryman1 on 27 March 2013, 12:31:23 AM

Title: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: ryman1 on 27 March 2013, 12:31:23 AM
A Zulu walking through the jungle comes across a pygmy standing over a dead lion.
"Did you kill that lion?" asks the Zulu.
"Yeah, I beat it to death with my club," the pygmy replies.
"You must have a big club," says the Zulu.
"Aye, there's about thirty of us."
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: FierceKitty on 27 March 2013, 12:47:19 AM
Jungle? In Natal?
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: ryman1 on 27 March 2013, 01:19:37 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 March 2013, 12:47:19 AM
Jungle? In Natal?

Isn't a jungle a dense forest in a hot climate?
Thought it was funny myself - I'll get my coat.
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: Shecky on 27 March 2013, 02:12:08 AM
maybe he walked a long way...
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: FierceKitty on 27 March 2013, 05:51:17 AM
Watch the Zulu movies again. The landscape is accurate enough.
(I agree; it is funny.)
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: Techno on 27 March 2013, 07:33:09 AM
I liked it ! :) ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: petercooman on 27 March 2013, 08:08:05 AM
It's a joke, and it's good so no point in pointing out the point is invalid.

Wait.... what  =P~
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: Hertsblue on 27 March 2013, 10:45:20 AM
Pygmies aren't native to Natal, so the Zulu must have walked a fair way. (No, this is getting silly)  ;)
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: Techno on 27 March 2013, 11:20:04 AM
Well...
One of my favourite jokes involves a bear and a rabbit talking to each other in a sunny glade after Winter.
Nobody's ever pointed out that neither of these animals can actually talk !  :P
(And no....There's no point in 'plonking' it down...It's rather a visual joke.) ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: ryman1 on 27 March 2013, 11:21:06 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 March 2013, 05:51:17 AM
Watch the Zulu movies again. The landscape is accurate enough.
(I agree; it is funny.)

Glad you liked it  :) ....................but.......the joke is actually set in burma (the two were working as holiday reps for their respective peoples) ;)

Never been to Natal but have read many accounts of the nature of the vegetation around port natal at the time of Farewell/Fynn, lush, dense vegetation and primodial forest running close to the shore seems to be the common description.
Inland, where the films are shot is I agree, completely different but again, what does it matter?, the joke's set in Burma, or was it Brazil? :P

Herts, pygmies are thought to have inhabited natal long before the zulu (Nguni) and Europeans ever set eyes on it - assumed to be around the mid/late 15th century in both cases.

Cheers, always good to raise a chuckle and follow it up with assorted bar furniture skimming by my head.  :-bd
Title: Re: The zulu and the pygmy
Post by: FierceKitty on 27 March 2013, 02:44:53 PM
Hmmm. I shall be checking this with several Burmese colleagues next semester.