16 November 2009

It’s Sunday night in Rome....

Just a gigolo

You’re a beautiful young woman in Rome. You have been recruited to attend a lavish function. Do you:
  1. Expect Silvio Berlusconi to turn up and slobber down your cleavage
  2. Get whisked off to a sun kissed resort by a rich, but elegant Playboy
  3. Get a lecture on Islam and be sent packing with a 50 Euro note and a copy of the Koran?
If you answered c) you are correct. According to the BBC the girls received a lecture on the wonders of Islam by Muammar Gaddafi, who was in town for the UN food summit.

Having been selected the women were taken to an imposing reception room, they were then left waiting for an hour without so much as a glass of water until Gaddafi arrived and proceeded to preach the benefits of Islam, taking particular pains to assure his guests that it was not misogynistic, and encouraging them to convert.

Two hours later, the women left, looking a touch bemused, 50 euros ($75; £45) better off and clutching a copy of the Koran.

So there you have it - just another Sunday night in the eternal city

17 comments:

James Higham said...

Yes but did they get that glass of water?

jams o donnell said...

I hope so James!

Stephanie, Mama Dramatist said...

Dang, but that man gives me the heebie-jeebies!

But not, alas, a copy of the Koran.

Or a glass of water...

CherryPie said...

£45 and a free book, what more could a girl ask for?

jams o donnell said...

He's not much of a hunk is he Stephanie?

Well there you go. A drink might have been good too Cherie

beakerkin said...

Jams

I must get my eyes checked. For a second I thought that was a picture of Kieth Richards. Richards looks so old and worn because of all the drugs.

That man has so many lines on his face it looks like an Exter street map.

I am waiting for someone to say that that can't be Keith Richards because Richards doesn't have bad taste in clothes.

Richards worn face + Elton John's bad wardrobe = Quadaffi

I wonder if I am going to be banned from the UK for this bad jokes like Michael Savage.

susan said...

It's likely some of the girls have had worse experiences if they're so easily recruited.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Now we have to wait for the results of this experiment, counting the percentage of converts on the time scale.

Then the stimulus should be higher, I suggest.

I value my potential of conversion to Islam somewhere around $2M. That's because of my high intrinsic value to any religion. So far no takers.

jams o donnell said...

Time has not been kind to Gaddafi and that;s the truth Beakerkin!

They could well have Susan

$2m? If some religion would put up that amount for me I would join!

Stephanie, Mama Dramatist said...

Beakerkin, Keith Richards is a self-created mummy. Mick Jagger just totes him around under his arm and props him up wherever he goes.

But he's never had to pay for groupies.

jams o donnell said...

At least Keith Richards will have a place in the British Museum when he's done!

catsynth said...

Wow, the image of Berlusconi and Qadaffi (sp?) together is a bit disconcerting - and that is before one throws in the attractive young women...

beakerkin said...

Jams

Keith Richards is too funny

Knatolee said...

Mother of God, Muammar is NOT aging well! Lay off the cigs and sunshine Mr. Mu my man, you might consider a liver-function test!

Still, kudos for the poet-beard!

jams o donnell said...

Poet beard? cold he be a Libyan beatnik after all???

Knatolee said...

He could be! On the other hand, maybe he's just a homicidal FREAK. Who needs botox and a good skin cream! And for the love of all things Libyan, MuMu, trying cracking a smile once in a while. Turn that frown upsidedown!

jams o donnell said...

I shudder to think what would turn his frown upside down!