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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..


Sari Seems to be the Hardest Word by JenEllen
(Tune: Hank William's "I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die")

I'll take you to our factory
An' show you how it's done
Keepin' them bobbins bobbin'
Make our saris number one
"I know your rubber troubles"
Them condom makers cry
But there's no spermicidal saris here
We're a' weavin' with K-Y

There's a better use for condoms
At least one that's more fun
Jus' pick you a position
Where one and one makes one
Long lunch hour with Kama Sutra
An' we'll never bat an eye
No spermicidal saris here
We're a' weavin' with K-Y

We don't need fancy coloured ones
Or ribbed ones in our hands
Or them knobby 'ticklers
Pop'lar in some foreign lands
Just give that tube a squeeze gals
And let me tell you why
No spermicidal saris here
We're a' weavin' with K-Y

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