The exchange rate btw is approx 9000 cedis to the US dollar, so 15M would equal approx 1700USD

First of all.... WHAT?!

Also, the link is farked.

HUH!?

What's a "cedis"?

There's a dead bishop on the landing?

Who shot who in the what now ?

Oh, it's the new Weird Al Yankovic song, "If Your TV Mechanic Tells You Meet Him At The Airport, Don't Expect The Bishop To Show Up To Erase The Curse Of The Witches".

THE BISHOP!

/a sunday schools production

He was charged "for fraud by false pretences".
I wonder if you can commit fraud under true pretences?

GIS for "cedis"

TV mechanic?
/repairman

What kind of world is it we live in when a man can't get an honest blessing in the Airport anymore.

This reminds me of something a wiseman once said:


"For a number of years now, work has been proceeding to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such a machine is the "turbo-encabulator." Basically, the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the medial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive directance.

The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbline was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-0-delta type placed in panendermic semiboiloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremie pipe to the differential gridlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.

In addition, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.

Undoubtedly, the turbo-encabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating nofer trunnions."

-Confucius

Here's a link to more non-sensical zaniness, like this mucky article we just read.

http://www.floobydust.com/turbo-encabulator/

So where the hell is the Bishop? Isn't the guy still cursed?

This headline reads like a bad babelfish translation...

Go to show you, a fool and his cedis are soon parted.

Consequently, he said, a report was made to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) police who arrested him. 13 Oct 03

The first name proposed for this establishment, the Kwame University Nkrumah of Technology and Science was rejected for obvious reasons.

So he swiped 15 million, and got fined 3 million...

...sounds like a few businesses I know.

I thought it was a teaser for a new miniseries on the SciFi channel.

I've submitted a number of funny and thought provoking headlines and stories and this drivel gets green lighted.

There is no God.

archangel_gabriel

Whiner.

-drin

Sweet. Nice to know some parts of the World have yet to move beyond the 1500s. I wonder if I can move there and become Grand Inquisitor.

The cast:

DEVIOUS
Michael Palin
BISHOP
Terry Jones
FIRST VICAR
Graham Chapman
SECOND VICAR
John Cleese
THIRD VICAR
Eric Idle

I tried to be a good little farker and RTFA to make sense of the headline, and ... WTF?

Only in Ghana Africa.

this whole article was like that twilight zone where a guy wakes up and all the common everyday words have changed meaning. a 'toothbrush' was suddenly called a 'candle', a 'picture' was called a 'cloud', on and on like that.

i know what most of these words mean individually, but when i read them strung together like this i think i got a nose bleed.

weirdest part may have been the banner at the top asking me who won the debate, bush or kerry. like these people dont have bigger problems.

15,000,000 cedis is 928.64

it didn't let my pound sign through!
Ah, you have to use an entity reference
15,000,000 cedis is £928.64

and this brought to you by the country that has just had it's national airline banned from every other airport in the developed world. marvelous place, i lived there for 2 years.

I think that we should put together a group of writers to go to Ghana and other African nations and beat the crap out of reporters who use the passive case. I also suggest we bring with us a case of periods so that this never has to happen again:

Police chief Inspector Kuffour Boateng told the court that in December last year Dankwah, who is a member of the Bethel Church at Kentinkrono, approached Owusu and told him that Bishop Blankson, leader and founder of the church, had revealed to him that he (complainant) was born to be a great man but this had been erased by witches. He said the Bishop therefore had asked him to pay the amount for special prayers.


Let's try again.

Dankwah approached Owusu and told him that Bishop Blankson, leader and founder of the Bethel Church at Kentinkrono, had told Dankwah that Owusu was destined to be a great man. Dankwah also stated that the Bishop said this destiny had been erased by witches and that Owusu should therefore pay for special prayers.

OK, still 2 sentences, but I think my point still stands.

WTF? I read the article and my head hurts. Now I can't do any work. I think I will take a nap in my cube.

Could I have been erased by witches?

my brain hurts from reading that

> If your TV mechanic
OK. I'm following. I don't have a TV _mechanic_ per se, but I can appreciate the concept.

>tells you meet him at the airport,
Slipping a little here, but still on track. I'd have to RTFA to get this I assume, but I'm going to the airport to meet my mechanic.

> don't expect the bishop
Wha? Bishop? Is he the same as the TV repair.. er mechanic? Is his TV busted too? Why are we all meeting at the airport, anyway?

> to show up to erase the curse
My TV is cursed?! Dammit, it's brand FARKING new! Blasted RCA! Do Bishops "erase" curses? Is this curse _written_ on my TV? How do you write on a TV? OH! maybe the problem is with my TiVo!

> of the witches.
What? THE? Fuhq? The witches got to my Tivo! Crap! I'll never TiVo Charmed for those bitc#es AGAIN! I hate that show!

> All you're going to lose is 15 million cedis...
15 million cedis to fix my Tivo! I could buy a new one and a better TV for that much! Those witches are seriously going to ante up on this one. First they eat all my chips, then they piss off my dog, now they've broke my TiVo!

I *heart* the third world!

Mmmmm... cedis

Is it any surprise that Africa is such a mess?