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[A. G. Maisey]

Naw --- they won't mind.

joking -- joking --- just joking.

Actually when I wrote that thing I was thinking of a bloke I used to buy from who had a stall in Pasar Beringharjo in Jogja. Pak Kadir, he came from Palembang. He was promoted to another realm some time ago, so I reckon its OK to tell this. He used to bitch to me about his wives. He had one in Jogja, one in Palembang, and the woman with the stall opposite reckoned he had another one down the road in Klaten. Anyway, Pak Kadir reckoned that Christians had the game sewn up:- one wife, only one wife. One wife = one house, one lot of household expenses, one servant, one everything. He reckoned that was the reason Christians were rich and Indonesians were poor:- too many wives.

Of course, no wives at all you can get even richer --- and that reminds me of another Indonesian I used to know. He was --- very strangely --- Greek Orthodox. He reckoned that he loved milk, but that didn't mean he had to own a cow.