April 24, 2007: Mursi tribe member features lip disk, russian rifle, ipod

Undertoad • Apr 24, 2007 11:22 am
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"Making the rounds on Digg and Boing Boing", says gmr2048. All we know is that it's a female member of Mursi tribe in Southern Ethiopia. But boy if there ever was a shot that needed to go up without much explanation...
Beestie • Apr 24, 2007 11:32 am
If I were a wild boar during mating season, I'd be all over that.

I wonder if she's listening to the vagina monologues podcast.
Shawnee123 • Apr 24, 2007 11:40 am
deja vu

So I'll say it again: it has to listen to the IPod 'cause all its CDs are in its lips.
piercehawkeye45 • Apr 24, 2007 12:19 pm
Damn, that must have been painful.
barefoot serpent • Apr 24, 2007 12:37 pm
Just a wild guess but I'll bet she's listening to some Spaghetti Western classics of Ennio Morricone.
glatt • Apr 24, 2007 12:39 pm
Nah, she's a Pink fan. Get this party started.
elSicomoro • Apr 24, 2007 12:39 pm
Nah...she's probably a Pantera fan.
Sheldonrs • Apr 24, 2007 12:59 pm
She's got an i-Pod, a HUGE plate in her lip. About 20lbs of shells on her head and an automatic weapon. If she has her period too, someone's gonna get hurt.
ferret88 • Apr 24, 2007 1:25 pm
Now THAT's someone ready for a visit from the government about those illegal mp3 downloads.
Tomtheman5 • Apr 24, 2007 2:19 pm
That iPod is soooooo two years ago. Bet she got it off of ebay.

(www.ebay.et?)
gmr2048 • Apr 24, 2007 2:58 pm
here's where i found the shot. not much more info there, unfortunately:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/22/mursi_tribeswoman_wi.html

-gary
Cloud • Apr 24, 2007 4:19 pm
hubba hubba! The bigger the ring, the more desirable she is to a potential husband. That, combined with the gun and the ipod, means this women is hot property!
TheMercenary • Apr 24, 2007 7:19 pm
Cloud;337110 wrote:
hubba hubba! The bigger the ring, the more desirable she is to a potential husband. That, combined with the gun and the ipod, means this women is hot property!


Yea, but how many cows does she have in her dowery? That is the real question.
MAdMoNKEY • Apr 24, 2007 7:55 pm
Doesn't the giant lip jewelry hinder her efforts to fight in a war? She might as well suck on a giant red target sign.
milkfish • Apr 24, 2007 8:00 pm
Paging Don Imus....
SPUCK • Apr 25, 2007 5:58 am
Those Mursi have really gone to hell, what with being suckered into an Ipod and Itunes...
predatormc • Apr 25, 2007 8:21 am
Is that a dollar in her left hand?
barefoot serpent • Apr 25, 2007 10:19 am
predatormc;337329 wrote:
Is that a dollar in her left hand?


why yes, a Fistfull to be exact.:)
Shawnee123 • Apr 25, 2007 11:14 am
Maybe she moonlights as a stripper, and those are the dollars the carousing tribesmen stuck in her...um, lip disc?
be-bop • Apr 25, 2007 6:51 pm
I was halfway down the posts when I realised "it's a woman"
WTF
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 25, 2007 9:17 pm
predatormc;337329 wrote:
Is that a dollar in her left hand?


Probably demanded payment to have her picture taken. Would you say no to her demands?
zippyt • Apr 25, 2007 9:31 pm
Paging Don Imus...
http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/23302/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/23302/crew/napho.mp3
petr0lb0mb • Apr 26, 2007 2:14 am
I predict the younger generation Mersi tribe chicks will have their ipods mounted in their lips soon.
Sun_Sparkz • Apr 26, 2007 7:06 am
even i dont have an ipod. rich bastards
xoxoxoBruce • Apr 26, 2007 6:55 pm
If you had an AK-47 you could get an iPod.... easily.
HungLikeJesus • May 3, 2007 10:59 am
I wonder what she looks like without the disk?

And no one has commented that she appears to be topless.
SPUCK • May 5, 2007 6:23 am
She's got the AK47 cuz she's pissed about her Apple Ipod battery failure policy.
whitjohn • May 8, 2007 11:58 am
Sheldonrs's observation on page one cracked me up! Then I remembered this photo I took in Guizhou province (China) about two years ago. Granny looks like she's hunting for someone...not me I hope.