WE'RE SURE IT WAS DONE TASTEFULLY

A witness in the trial of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi testified that she saw strippers at his infamous "bunga bunga" parties performing while dressed as nuns, Italian media reported.

(Thanks to Bob Brogan, who asks, "Bunga bunga?")

Comments

[O the Umanity]

How were they sure that these wuz not REAL nuns ... and they merely wanted to get outta the habit ... ?

[nursecindy]

It's nice to see that OtU won't be alone in the hand basket.

[Afkat]

If Sister Monica was part of this, I would gouge my eyes out myself.

*looks for a spot in the hanmdbasket*

[Afkat]

or handbasket...being a frequent flyer, I'm open to all options...

[Clankie]

If he ever gets as far as the Pearly Gates, he's going to have some 'splainin' to do.

[padraig]

OtU, they were NOT real nuns. This was the Italian government, not the Vatican.

[padraig]

Now, since nobody else has stepped up, I will share the "bunga bunga" story with This Blog.

Three explorers was captured by a savage group of cannibals in darkest Africa. The tribe's chief knew enough English to explain that the captives had two choices -- Death, or Bunga Bunga. The first said, "Bunga Bunga it is, then." They strip him naked and the entire tribe has their way with him. At the end he is released and waddles off into the jungle."

Chief says to the second man, "Death, or Bunga Bunga?" The second man says, "Better than dying" and submits to Bunga Bunga.

Chief says to the third man, "Death, or Bunga Bunga?" The man says, "Well, someone has to have some dignity here. I choose death."

The chief gives him a look of respect and says, "Very well, you are a brave man. I hereby sentence you to death -- BY Bunga Bunga."

Of course that loses something in the translation from the Italian.

[Omniskeptic]

My old upper peninsula colleague (RIP) used to offer a piece of Uper lingo that is roughly equivalent to bunga bunga: "Youwannumnookienookie?"

[padraig the cheesehead]

Dat's spelled "Yooper", Omni. Woont wantcha t'look unejjicated, eh?

[Elon]

Nun wagered, nun gained. It was a bad habit of his.

[O the Umanity]

Merely becuz it wuzn't in the Vatican, duzn't mean they wuzn't real nuns ... or fake nuns either ...

Only attemptin' to be fair by presentin' both sides of the question for discussion ...

[Ralph]

The French version: Hey, Fifi! Parlez-vous humma humma?

(Geezer reference.)

[frodolives]

Didn't Bunga Bunga have a hit with "In the Summertime"?

[frodolives]

Sorry, I meant "In the Summertime"...

[Wolfsong]

Maybe Mary Magdalene costumes woulda been more appropriate?

[Steve]

Well, I'm never invited to the fun neighborhood parties.

[Omniskeptic]

It may be Yooper in the decidedly non-mitten-shaped state of Wisconsin, but it's "Uper" to us trolls (because we live below the bridge, get it? I didn't until it was explained to me.)

[O the Umanity]

To sum of us out here in the uneducated Northern Great Plains, the nomenclature is merely the descriptive "U P" ... or, in more formal environs, "U P Michigan" ...

I'm fairly sure this stems frum old hockey rivalries, and other such sophisticated milieu ...