} Ah, you must be referring to the race from highland Papua, New Guinea.
} Their population was ravaged in the early 1900s by a prion disease
} known as Kuru, or the laughing sickness. The disease's spread was
} exacerbated by the practice, common among the Fore, of mortuary
} cannibalism, eating their dead. The disease--
}
} *WHAM-CLUNK-bounce-CRASH-tinkle-tinkle*
}
} IDIOT! You nearly hit me! And you ... you ... you broke my window and
} shattered my vase! FOOL! I should have *known* better than to try to
} answer a question submitted without groveling.
}
} See, *this* is why I always require a minimum of thirty seconds of
} groveling before answering a question. From now on, the minumum will
} be *forty-five* seconds of groveling.
}
} And you ... of all the nerve. What punishment shall I exact from you?
} Hey, stop running. Get back here. *Poof* That's better. Stick around a
} while.
}
} Hmm, zotting you would be letting you off easy. No, you need a nice,
} slow, painful death. No, even death is too good. You need some form of
} eternal suffering.
}
} An eternety sucking lava through an iron straw? Technical support work
} until the end of time?
}
} No, something better.
}
} I sentence you to an eternety of listening to Britney Spears
} recordings and Tom Cruise interviews.
}
} You owe the Oracle a new golf club.
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