The deal to form a new government has been met with some traditional Cambodian humor.
Question: Where will the new Cabinet meet for the first time?
Answer: The only place there are enough seats - Olympic Stadium!
Question: What will be the first thing you'll see once the new government is sworn
in?
Answer: Undersecretaries of State racing for their new ministries to fight over limited
office space.
** Veteran PPPost reporter Patrick Falby has added another feather to his cap as
an accomplished actor in a soon-to-be released major motion picture. Falby stars
in the locally produced The Buffalo Protecting the Child, an action-packed, blockbuster
Kung Fu film whose plot is too complicated to explain in words.
Falby says he liked the script from the get-go and his lines included: "Everybody!
Get 'em!"; "Stop"; "Are you okay?"; and, "Karate! Get
'em!" The film will be shown at the Bokor Cinema.
Falby waived his normal seven-figure fee to star in a major film and is attempting
instead to cover his living costs by organizing a raffle for his l993 Honda Baja
250cc dirt bike. Tickets are available for $10 from Patrick (012-789-149). The raffle
will be held at his farewell party on July 9.
** The following tale comes courtesy of the BBC.
An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman who claims to
have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed
to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body.
While it is unclear how this could have happened, the paper carries quotes from medical
experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal.
It has been speculated that the woman, who has not been named, unknowingly picked
up the larva while she was swimming in a dirty pool.
The woman, from the southeastern city of Iranshahr, is a mother of two children.
The "so-called frog", as the newspaper puts it, has yet to undergo precise
genetic and anatomic tests. But it quotes clinical biology expert Dr Aminifard as
saying: "The similarities are in appearance, the shape of the fingers and the
size and shape of the tongue."
Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs
- or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies. One of the most
famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting
woman" of Germany. When she died in 1662 doctors are said to have performed
an autopsy, but found no evidence animals had ever lived inside her body.
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