Hey, these things just write themselves. Seriously, do you think I could make up shit like this? It's totally real, I swear! This morning I was perusing the Saturday paper at breakfast and I was overwhelmed at the array of bizarro articles. The above article, in the "Total Man" section of the paper, was only one of several, which I feel compelled to share with you now. Simply because of their weird content. Oh, and by the way, most of those men said that yes, they did indeed bathe with their woman(en), Phew! I'd hate to think that the philandering men of Uganda were holding out on the ladies...pffft!

Across from the "Bathe With Your Woman" article was this very urgent article on better grooming...Apparently, good socks make the man. What? You haven't heard that before? Have you been living under a rock or what?!?

Apparently well educated Ugandan men are getting a bad rap in the sack these days...With all the sex going on here, it's difficult to believe that any guy is lacking in this area but apparently, according to this article, dudes with a high intellect prefer not to exercise their junk as much as, say, day laborers and the likes. Seriously? Just typing that out cracked me up.

Then, there's apparently an epidemic of "upper class" Kampala women who are too wussy to push out a kid through the typical methods so they're opting for non-medically needed C-sections. Weird or what?

But those aren't the weirdest stories...Oh no my friends, there's more bizarre stuff, known as "Mystery Date"...Mystery Date is when the paper fixes up two readers on a blind date. The thing is, the guys are usually married or have a girlfriend, and often the women have boyfriends. For example, our boy Moses, below, seemed to forget that he was, uh, married, and that his photo would, you know, be in the actual newspaper for all to see. The really sad thing was that Edith, his "date", said she'd entertain being his lover if he was "serious" about it. WTF?!?

And this other Mystery Date...seems all these guys are named Moses...What's up with that? Annnyway, these two got along better than the above "couple", though apparently she has a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend. Perhaps the wierdest aspect of the below article is that when asked if Moses would "marry" her (uh, not sure of the implications on their current partners...) he said "Of course. If things went well, I would. But these things depend on God's will." Seriously? Is it God's will that these people sign up for a blind date when they're already in relationships with other people?

The really sad thing is that working here on HIV/AIDS programs, nobody in the HIV sector is talking to the newspaper to tell them that their "dating" program is sending out conflicting messages...And to that, I really have nothing funny to say.

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2008 Olympic Gold medal winners Hinrich Romeike & Marius of Germany