Saturday, March 13, 2010

Burundi

Most notorious among Americans for its mention in the popular 20th century playground taunt "I see Chad, I see Burundi / I see Suzy Collins' undies," Burundi is a small central African country located on the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika. Burundi became a German colony back in the day when all of Europe was having like, this big fantasy draft to decide who got to wrest which parts of Africa from the tenuous grasp of the hapless natives. After returning from the bathroom in one of the latter rounds to discover that everything had been taken except for Burundi and Somalia, Germany sighed heavily and said "Okay, fuck it, we'll take Burundi. I knew we should have picked up Mozambique in an earlier round." Portugal then laughed gloatingly. It later wound up in Belgian hands because Germany totally sucks at world wars.

Burundi was basically the fat kid on the German Empire's dodgeball team.

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