> At the risk of starting an inane thread (because I know we > avoid those) I was wondering if anyone had any good > "geek" jokes--ones that might relate to quiz-bowl type > material? It was early 1994, and campaigning was under way for South Africa's first all-race elections. The leading candidate for president was Nelson Mandela, the founder of the ANC's military wing, 27 years a prisoner of the Apartheid regime and co-winner of the previous year's Nobel prize for peace. He took his campaign to a village in the Eastern Cape, the region where he was born and raised, where the local people spoke his native language of Xhosa. A podium had been set up for Mandela under a yellowwood tree to shield the great man from the hot summer sun. Unfortunately, his security detail had failed to notice that in the tree there were not only Cape batis and fiscal shrikes fluttering about, but also a skunk lying on a branch directly above where the candidate was to speak. Mandela strode to the podium, waving to acknowledge the cheering crowd. He was about to open his mouth to address them in Xhosa, ... but the skunk rolled down and ruptured his larynx.
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