Making the Call: A Mosaic
What is it?
Filed Under: NAST, Technology, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
6 Comments | 16 November 2008
Category Archive: NAST
A Wife for a Goat?
While sifting through papers tonight, I found this Kolkata (Calcutta) newspaper clipping from our time there in April 2008. I couldn’t have made this up if I tried.
Man swaps wife for goat
A Bulgarian farmer has swapped his wife for a goat - because she couldn’t give him kids. Stoil Panayotov exchanged his third wife with Elena, the eight-year-old goat at a livestock market. The extraordinary deal was concluded in front of a stunned crowd in the market town of Plovdiv, central Bulgaria. “The day before, a friend told me that he has had no luck with women and that he really liked my wife,” says the 54-year-old. “The deal was reached when my wife gave her approval. The goat has given birth to three kids and my wife to none. So this deal was more profitable to the goat owner, I got a secondhand goat and he got a brand new wife.”
Filed Under: Europe, Humor, India, NAST by: Audrey Scott
1 Comment | 20 August 2008
When Georgians and Beer Mix
When you toast someone or something in Georgia with a beer, it’s more like a curse than a traditional toast for good health and prosperity.
I wonder, How many Georgians are drinking beers and clinking to Russia, Putin, and Medvedev right now?
Find out what happens when Vladimir Putin’s nickname sounds like the English word for a part of the female anatomy… Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Caucasus, Georgia, NAST by: Audrey Scott
No Comments | 15 August 2008
A New Breed of Dog?
Dogs with tiger stripes?
Is it the next new Chinese dog breed coming your way? An experiment in genetic modification that escaped from the lab with the help of an ambitious entrepreneur?
Or do the stripes wash off after the first bath? Continue Reading »
Filed Under: China, NAST by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
4 Comments | 7 August 2008
NAST: A New Kind of Blog Post
“What is NAST?” you ask.
It might just save your life. It may even make you think.
Until then, it’s an acronym that stands for Nano Attention Span Theater (NAST), a new category of blog post we’ll be throwing up on Uncornered Market. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: NAST by: Audrey Scott
No Comments | 7 August 2008
