another gem from my friend Nick

[winterbadger]

Subject: Make first contact with isolated stone-age tribes

There is apparently a tour company that offers such tours.

http://www.papua-adventures.com/first-contact-summary.html

My reply:

How incredibly irresponsible.

Or, alternately, how incredibly enterprising of some Papuans to take foreigners out in the back country, have some friends dressed in palm fronds leap out of the bushes and make gibberishy language sounds, then gesture a bit, then go away, leaving the tourists no wiser, seversl thousand dollars poorer, but with the conviction they've gotten their money's worth.

Comments

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

Maybe they could throw in killing an occasional tourist - just for verisimilitude...:)

[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

"Or, alternately, how incredibly enterprising of some Papuans to take foreigners out in the back country, have some friends dressed in palm fronds leap out of the bushes and make gibberishy language sounds, then gesture a bit, then go away, leaving the tourists no wiser, seversl thousand dollars poorer, but with the conviction they've gotten their money's worth."

This is what I suspect, actually.