Still More from the Do Not Take Yourself too Seriously Dept–a real newspaper typo

2 comments on “Still More from the Do Not Take Yourself too Seriously Dept–a real newspaper typo”

1. Terry Tee says:

   November 7, 2014 at 4:01 am

   Of course, traditionally in southern Africa the groom pays the bride’s father a bride price, lobola, which used to be cows and still is often calculated in cow currency ie the equivalent of X cows. A friend of mine many years ago, a deaconess (remember them? women of strength, courage, faith, wisdom) told me that her husband, wanting to ‘spring’ her from the training house so that they could marry, had to pay a fine. ‘He had to pay lobola for me’ she said, matter-of-factly.

2. MichaelA says:

   November 8, 2014 at 10:01 am

   I consider my wife to be worth many cows.

   I do not know her views about me nor do I wish to ask.