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December 30, 2004
Making sauce
The Flea's objectification prevention committee chair forwarded news of Victoria University Professor Ralph Pettman's decision to start a "social movement". After much thought on things to worry about, he decided to start a social movement aimed at preventing people from having sex at Mount Everest base camp.
Footprints Tours guide John McKinnon, who has been travelling to Nepal since the 1960s and lived there for two years, said he was astonished at the proposals. He doubted Sherpa were offended by tourists having sex. "I find that claim rather questionable. Sherpas have a very raunchy sense of humour," he said.
Because it's not like there are real problems in south-east Asia at the moment. Perhaps his initiative suffers more from horrible timing than the mere fact of not being a terribly good idea in the first place. Why, I ask in purely rhetorical fashion, is it that so many social movements are aimed at preventing other people from enjoying themselves? This is a good time for me to announce the creation of my own social movement aimed at encouraging people to have sex at the summit of Everest, the 5.5 Mile High Club. Now all I need to do is see if, like Pr. Pettman, I can get a two-thousand dollar grant from my university to fund a website devoted to building support for the idea.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 30, 2004 09:16 AM
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I suggest that it be made mandatory. The triumphant mountaintop pictures would be - different.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 4, 2005 07:34 PM
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