Saturday, October 13, 2007
Special of the day [Mark Steyn]
Here's a practical solution to big government, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph obits column:
[David Muffett] spent 16 years in the colonial service in northern Nigeria, where he claimed to have been one of only two Britons whose name passed into the native Hausa language: "Aka yi masa mafed" (literally "One did to him Muffett"), meaning "Justice caught up with him"...
In 1960 he apprehended the Tigwe of Vwuip, a northern Nigerian tribal chief who had eaten the local tax collector. The Tigwe had apparently been so impressed by the man's ability to acquire money on demand that he had — understandably — decided to try to assimilate his powers.
The Tigwe was, alas, prevented from extending his appetites to international dishes:
What really worried [Muffett] was the fact that a UN delegation was due to visit the area, and "I wasn't about to have one of them eaten. I considered that it would be a highly retrogressive step."
10/13 02:24 PM
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