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[nineveh_uk]

Hard as it is to beat the headline seen on a newsboard in Bridlington "Horse Fetish Flashed in Court"* for headline of the week, the Iceland Review managed it with Seven-Year-Old Wins Iceland Ram Groping Contest. Even better, this story really is about a seven year-old who won the amateur section of a ram groping contest - prizes include (ram) sperm from the Insemination Center of West Iceland. Despite said prizes, I assume that groping is a mistranslation of a word/phrase about judging the quality of rams. Anyone can read Icelandic and would be good enough to tell me what was actually meant by groping and how the error, er, arose, the source is here.

The competition involves laypersons attempting to rank rams that have been ranked by professional ram-rankers, and explaining why. Says the organiser:

“One year a contestant was able to rank the rams correctly and described them all in a poem. That was very interesting.” Evidently there isn't much to do in Iceland in summer.

*Which turned out to be a mis-print for "Horse Fetish Flaster in Court", and is unfortunately a rather more sad and less funny story than one might have hoped for.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I am finding this funny for quite a different reason -- my father, who recently died at the age of nearly 94, was nicknamed Ram.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I've tried to answer this comment in a witty and yet tasteful fashion, but find that I can't!

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

His actual first name was Grant, and his work buddies used to collect headlines that said things like "Grant to Study Unwed Mothers," "Grant Comes Through," "Grant Saves the Day," etc. I'm sure "Ram Groping" would have been right up their alley.