Fund Raising for Gillian Gibbons

[OnLineGenie]

I'm sure those of you in the UK will have heard about the case of Gillian Gibbons. Now that she is back at home in the UK there is a fund-raising initiative to raise the funds to tide her over till she can get another job.

Tickets cost £1 each and all you have to do is guess the name of the teddy bear.

Well if I'd put it in the joke thread you would have known all along wouldn't you?

[The Animal]

This would probably be a lot funnier if I understood what the heck you were talking about... ._.

[slowcheetah9]

I've heard about that. It's been all over the MSN main page, and in SL I frequent a place in SL Liverpool called Matthew Street, and I read the Liverpool Echo (the daily newspaper). For those of you who aren't familiar with Second Life, it's an MMORPG with different towns & such, and in some sims (or towns, to make it simple) there are outside links to other (real) websites.

[slowcheetah9]

animal8074 said:

This would probably be a lot funnier if I understood what the heck you were talking about... ._.

She's English, and she's a teacher who got in major trouble... she teaches a second-year (correct me if I'm wrong) class, or first grade for us Americans, and she had her students do a class project in which a stuffed animal (just a little teddy) was involved. The students voted on their favorite name, and they called him Mohammed. Well, someone reported this because they thought it was mocking Islam (Mohammed is a common name among Muslims, but you can't name an animal or a toy after the prophet) It was seen as "religious hatred" and she was put in prison for a bit. Mark, the country she was teaching in was Sudan, wasn't it?

[OnLineGenie]

Yes, it was Sudan.

I suspected that people in the US might not understand it, but an explanation would have killed the impact of the joke.

[The Animal]

Oh, I have heard of that! That's just ridiculous.