April 06 CROSS-CULTURAL JOKE ¡V

¡P Subject: missionary ladies in Madagascar!

Many years ago, at a mission meeting in Madagascar, there was a vigorous debate about what honorific title should be used for the many single women missionaries who served there.  Many of them were from Norway.  After prolonged discussion, an older man at the back of the group said, with a thick Norwegian accent, ¡§I tink they should be called ¡¥vimin vorkers¡¦.¡¨ 

So it was, from that time to the present, single women missionaries in Madagascar are called, ¡§v.v.¡¦s¡¨