# Half-eaten wife used as bait to trap killer Tanzania lion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489 "2004-06-15T16:04:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/1 "2004-06-15T16:04:57Z")
From the [BBC](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3808735.stm): > [@](#): > > Tanzanian police have vowed to act after a villager laced with poison his wife’s remains to catch a killer lion. Stangest headline I’ve seen all day. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/2 "2004-06-15T16:34:04Z")
You see, I’m an optimist: I prefer to see the wife as half _un_-eaten. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/3 "2004-06-15T16:42:44Z")
Sick! Sick sick sick _sick!!!_ But funny… ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/4 "2004-06-15T16:55:52Z")
Hell hath no fury like a woman half eaten. Finish the job, guys. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/5 "2004-06-15T18:07:49Z")
Here, kitty-kitty-kitty… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/6 "2004-06-15T18:22:24Z")
Well, hopefully someone in the village has been waiting for a matching ankle donor. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/7 "2004-06-15T18:32:16Z")
I’m rooting for the lion. Hey, lions got to eat too! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/8 "2004-06-15T18:33:15Z")
What’s the old joke?.. A man and his wife go out on a fishing boat. She falls overboard and they search for her the rest of the day, then return to port. A couple of days later, the captain calls the guy and says, “We found your wife’s body, but when we pulled her in, there was a clam attached to her foot, and the clam had a giant pearl in it. What should we do?” And the guy replies, “Send me the pearl and rebait the trap.” ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/9 "2004-06-15T20:04:32Z")
Which half of a half eaten wife do you use to bait a _Cunning Lioness_? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/10 "2004-06-15T20:08:02Z")
He’s trying to take a pride in his work. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/11 "2004-06-15T20:36:32Z")
This is the strangest I’ve seen [SOUP TO NUTS](http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/25759.htm) > [@](#): > > The notorious “Butcher of Tompkins Square” — a longhaired Texan drifter who (_in 1989_) murdered, dismembered and then stewed his girlfriend in soup pots, serving her to the local homeless — apparently continues to have people-eating issues. While locked up in a Wards Island nut house, the infamous late-'80s killer cannibal has gotten into repeated verbal fights with staff and inmates — at times threatening to eat them… I’ve angrily told people to ‘eat me’ - but can’t fathom saying the opposite. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/12 "2004-06-15T20:40:45Z")
No kidding. I can’t imagine telling someone “You better shut up or I’m gonna suck your dick!” ---
**Author:** ![Tiggrkitty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggrkitty/32/17966_2.png) [@Tiggrkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggrkitty)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/13 "2004-06-15T20:54:37Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > No kidding. I can’t imagine telling someone “You better shut up or I’m gonna suck your dick!” For some reason, I just can not see this as being much of a threat to a man. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/14 "2004-06-16T15:30:45Z")
Thanks **lieu** , I just spit water out my nose. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/15 "2004-06-16T15:38:08Z")
> [@](#): > > You see, I’m an optimist: I prefer to see the wife as half un-eaten. That alone was worth $4.95. Take a kudo outta petty cash. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/16 "2004-06-16T15:50:03Z")
Kudos is the singular. I’d threaten you with something for your error, but it seems we’ve got all the weird shit in here we can handle already. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/17 "2004-06-16T20:37:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Kudos is the singular. I’d threaten you with something for your error, but it seems we’ve got all the weird shit in here we can handle already. I was actually being purposely obtuse for great comedic effect 😉 . However, your post made me curios and I found multiple cites which talk about the changing usage of kudos/kudo. Although it still is not considered the proper formal usage, it is now part of the English language. I have found other cites which state this in stronger terms but they are in these strange things they call books and I don’t feel like doing that much typing to quote them. The following is from Webster’s. Language changes, deal with it 😃 . Main Entry: ku·do Pronunciation: 'kü-(")dO, 'kyü- Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural kudos /-(")dOz/ Etymology: back-formation from kudos (taken as a plural) 1 : AWARD, HONOR \ 2 : COMPLIMENT, PRAISE \ usage Some commentators hold that since kudos is a singular word it cannot be used as a plural and that the word kudo is impossible. But kudo does exist; it is simply one of the most recent words created by back-formation from another word misunderstood as a plural. Kudos was introduced into English in the 19th century; it was used in contexts where a reader unfamiliar with Greek could not be sure whether it was singular or plural. By the 1920s it began to appear as a plural, and about 25 years later kudo began to appear. It may have begun as a misunderstanding, but then so did cherry and pea. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/18 "2004-06-16T20:43:22Z")
curious :smack: too lazy to preview ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/19 "2004-06-16T23:49:57Z")
What did he use as poison? Did he have some Purina Lion Poison sitting in the cupboard next to the peanut butter? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489/20 "2004-06-16T23:53:34Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > You see, I’m an optimist: I prefer to see the wife as half _un_-eaten. An optimist would also see the lion as only half-full. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-eaten-wife-used-as-bait-to-trap-killer-tanzania-lion/250489.md?page=2)