6/7/2005: Hindu toad wedding

What we have here is a wedding of toads! Turns out it's a traditional Hindu ceremony which they hope will please the rain gods and end drought. She's marking the toad with vermillion.

Whatever works.

Where do they go on their honeymoon?

No sillier than many other rituals out there.

At least their cow thing makes sense.

Well toads often appear after a rain so making a few happily married toads just might lead to more toads and well - you get the connection with more toads and rain right?

Well, it makes as much since as saying God created the world since we know there's a world.

They all look stoned to me. Maybe that explains it.

And when they are wed, the guy in the black shirt with the red collar yells out... DY NO MITE!

She learned that technique at the University of Pennsylvania.

Wait for it.

Wart-on school.

Thank you and don't forget to tip your servers.

They went to France and got legless.

Please the Rain God? End Drought? How I wonder does the marriage of fricken toads accomplish that?

Same way that the rain goes away when you dance and sing the song.

Oh, and if the toads do actually frick, I think you get extra prosperity.

You just have to dance long enough, or find exactly the right pair of toads to marry. Keep trying; it will work eventually!

According to my Hindu colleagues here it is not a Hindu ceremony but just one of many local beliefs turned to when someone is in trouble or something is wrong such as a drought. It could just as easily been two donkeys they say.

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Originally Posted by dkb218 Please the Rain God? End Drought? How I wonder does the marriage of fricken toads accomplish that?

my home is in serious drought at the moment.. maybe i should invest in some toads?

i wonder if marrying Fly's or stick insects would have the same effect??

--Or just offer UT and Jacq. a free venue for a down under wedding

in MY neck of the woods, all I have to do is mow the lawn.

Yesterday, I had an appt with my blood-sucker...ah, I mean, lawyer, and I forgot. That should not surprise anyone who knows me. However, the Gods wanted me to make that appt for reasons of their own. So, at ten minutes prior to the appt, they rained on me enough to make me put away my implements of destruction, notice the time and make my appt. Five minutes after I get in the office, it stops raining and out came the sun, just like in Florida!

And yes, washing my car will do it too.

No...This.

ah, thanks, bruce. makes WAY more sense now.

Frog Wedding

Wart-on
That is really funny xoxoBruce
Where do the Honeymoon---Some Toad-ally remote location
Here's one for size
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,3032,00.html

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce Worked today.

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Originally Posted by Sun_Sparkz my home is in serious drought at the moment.. maybe i should invest in some toads? i wonder if marrying Fly's or stick insects would have the same effect?? --Or just offer UT and Jacq. a free venue for a down under wedding

Sure make jokes. I thought the bride looked absolutlely radiant.

She looks radiant because she's pregnant....it's a shotgun wedding but instead of a shotgun.......Dyn-0-mite.

This whole thing is freaking me out!
Imagine being snatched-up by giant alien beasts & being forced to marry some pregnant stranger in some freakish ceremony miles off the ground on huge leaves while being marked by weird items.... it just goes on, and on, and one..... I wanna' DIE!!!!