FunTimePartyTeam Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 As i said in the title I found this funny for some reason: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/27...a.ap/index.html Goats, cows offered for Chelsea NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A Kenyan says he offered Bill Clinton 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter's hand in marriage five years ago -- and is still waiting for an answer. Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor told the East Africa Standard newspaper last week that he wrote to Clinton asking for Chelsea's hand in 2000 during the then-president's visit to Kenya. Chepkurgor, a 36-year-old elected city councilor in Nakuru, recounted writing to the U.S president through the Kenyan government. He described his plans for a grand wedding presided over by South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He named then-President Daniel arap Moi and the president of his university as references. "Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding," he told the Standard in an interview published Friday during Clinton's recent visit to Kenya. Chepkurgor said his letter praised Clinton's leadership and commended his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, for standing by her husband "like an African woman" in the face of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The electrical engineering graduate said he promised to pay his would-be father-in-law 20 cows and 40 goats in dowry for his only daughter in accordance with African tradition. But he said the letter prompted security checks -- on him, his family and his classmates, and he was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Nairobi for a meeting that he missed because of his graduation from university. A National Security Intelligence Service officer told the Standard the letter probably never made it out of the office. "We gathered that this man was a teetotaler and a staunch Christian who seemed to have been struck by Chelsea, and I thought maybe he just took the joke too far," he said. Chepkurgor vowed to remain single until he gets an answer to his proposal to marry Chelsea, 25. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someone Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Chelsea is hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synaps Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 wow, he must come from a really wealthy family. thats a lot to offer. 2 cows and 3 goats is usually the standard. thats and having desmond tutu in to do the marriage is amazing. deffo a wealthy family Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumboclot. Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 So thats how they normally do things out there? Like, "I'll give you 4 chickens and 1 cow if you marry my daughter". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RideTheFire Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Originally posted by CACashRefund@Jul 27 2005, 08:32 PM Chelsea is hurt. Quoted post seriously. look at this ugly shit. :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: :yuck: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumy Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 hahaha.. bitch look like she got beat with one of these.. seriously, my dude is slippin'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnomeToys Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Chelsea isn't worth that many cows or goats. Honestly though, I'm more in shock that they actually used the word "teetotaler" in a modern news story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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