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The Song Challenge:   The Day That Saji's Sari Slipped and Baji's Bobbin Got Buffed . . . India's health minister has banned the use of condoms to lubricate bobbins used in weaving saris.  CP Thakur has told parliament sari makers are using condoms to speed up weaving because condom lubricant was also good at stopping yarn from snapping.    Mr. Thakur claims the use of so many condoms in the sari industry is affecting India's population control programme.    "Instructions have been issued to stop this practice," Mr Thakur said.  Mr Thakur says the use of condoms in weaving is causing shortages and instances of unscrupulous government health workers meant to distribute free condoms to contain population instead selling the condoms to sari makers.  Workers rub the condoms on bobbins while they make their brocade saris.   The industry is using an estimated half a million condoms every day.   Each of the 125,000 looms in the city of Varanasi uses an average four condoms per day.   It takes nearly 15 condoms to produce one Benarasi sari. The lubricant on the condom smoothens the bobbin and makes it move faster between threads..


Rub Rub Rubber by mousethief
(Tune: Red, Red Robin)

mousethief's Comments:  Al Jolson, eat your heart out.

When we rub, rub, rubbers
On the bob, bob, bobbin at work
There's no more threads breakin'
When the rubber's makin' it work

Watch out, watch out you sleepy-head
Don't get it up, get it up, get it up in bed
Because there's no protection to be had
It's all being used in the factoreeeeeeee

What am I to do?
Now I'm walking through mountains of cash
Population's soaring but still I'm ignorin'
The cries for a prophylactic stash

My wife had a kid again,
We're doing what we did again,
I feel like a randy young Turk
Cos we rub rub rubbers
On the bob-bob-bobbins at woooooooork!

(C)2001 Alex Riggle. All Rights Reserved.

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