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15:09 January 17th, 2007

Ironing out their differences?

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

Here’s another one of those examples where instead of being worth a thousand words, a picture just raises a thousand questions.

We’re told these people are celebrating a pagan festival. But you just have to wonder what part of paganism involves a frumpy housewife pressing a particularly sensitive area on a guy dressed as an ironing board. Feel free to propose alternative captions via post a comment. Gosh, these people must think The Honeymooners is the mother of all pagan folklore.

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Villagers dressed as an ironing board and a cleaner participate in a pagan ritual in the village of Vevcani, some 100 miles from the Macedonian capital of Skopje January 13, 2007. The village marks the Orthodox St. Vasilij Day with a carnival which celebrates the festival’s pagan roots. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

4 comments so far

“nextrovia in skumboyvitch petitschnia pill trianguisch…”
(My husband has been taking little blue triangular pills)

“ichnya bin phew”
(I am getting tired)

“Ipslandia finitza”
(This should put an end to it)

- Posted by Gary Roberts

Katie, my dear, you still put the starch in my trousers.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Macedonia just love it?

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

“This symbolizes our ironclad prenup!”

- Posted by anonymous

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