You'd think by the title it would be an oxymoron, right? I've always thought of the Amish, as a people, to perhaps be lacking in the humor department, but to be peaceful, hard-working, church-going, barn-building chill folks. Then I read about a splinter group (who ever thought there would be a splinter group amongst the Amish?) involved in home invasions in 4 separate counties in Ohio, of other Amish people and forcibly cut off their beards. And the man behind the beard-cutting's name is Mullet. Not kidding. He claims he didn't give the order to do this but says it's retribution for those who didn't follow some religious rules.
I'm sorry, I just find this fascinating in a comical way and can picture it as an SNL sketch - one group of Amish men on the left in traditional Amish attire: black trousers, white shirts, black suspenders, black flat hats - another group of Amish men on the right similarly dressed - doing that semi-bent forward move and snapping their fingers like Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris in Westside Story, then one group whips out scissors instead of switchblades and goes for the beards.
Why is Lorne Michaels not calling me?!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/arrests-in-amish-beard-cutting_n_1003944.html
I'm sorry, I just find this fascinating in a comical way and can picture it as an SNL sketch - one group of Amish men on the left in traditional Amish attire: black trousers, white shirts, black suspenders, black flat hats - another group of Amish men on the right similarly dressed - doing that semi-bent forward move and snapping their fingers like Russ Tamblyn and George Chakiris in Westside Story, then one group whips out scissors instead of switchblades and goes for the beards.
Why is Lorne Michaels not calling me?!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/arrests-in-amish-beard-cutting_n_1003944.html
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