Topless virgins vie for king!

This MSNBC headline certainly got my attention when it popped up on MSN Messenger!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9116360/

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Topless virgins vie for Swaziland’s king
Critics rip ceremony as inappropriate for a country afflicted by HIV/AIDS

LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland - More than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become the King of Swaziland’s 13th wife on Monday in a ceremony which critics say ill befits a country with the world’s highest HIV/AIDS rate.

King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, arrived dressed in a leopard-skin loincloth to watch the Reed Dance ceremony, which he has used since 1999 to pluck new brides from the girls dressed in little more than beaded mini-skirts.

Wielding machetes and singing tributes to the king and queen mother, also known as the Great She-Elephant, the girls danced around the royal stadium in the hope of catching the eye of the 37-year-old monarch.

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How could I have missed this - it seems right up my alley and possibly a great career change!

Makes me want to watch Coming to America. :)

i just had a funny thought of myself parading around the king, i try to get his attention, and lob one of the girls over...and catch his eye...OW! MY EYE!
goodness, could you imagine that this is something acceptable to these women? it's truly sad. this is only a small part of the repression women like this endure and sometimes even embrace.

I want to be a king! Yowzer!

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I saw that this afternoon! I was shocked at the title but then I read it. Other countries and their funky traditions.

I wonder if we can get something like this goin on in the DMCA. Who's King of the DMCA, I'm always forgetting.

Why am I not surprised to see Lightbeer in this thread!! :D

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Originally Posted by dsnylndmom

Why am I not surprised to see Lightbeer in this thread!! :D

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Of course three of my favorite words are in the title, Topless, King and Vi.............e.

Sure he's smiling now
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/ALIASd/king.jpg
I think she'll be disqualified when he checks out her DVD
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/ALIASd/paris.jpg