>>>I think they exchanged surnames, or at least that was their insider joke.
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>>You're all bonkers. I just read of this Serbian man who had sex with a hedgehog:
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>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/15/serbian_witchdoctor/
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>>I guess that would cure anyone of the affliction (a-friction?)! :-)
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>The Register, eh?

Yes. What about it? It just happened to be first in a long list of citations on this subject.

What's a witch doctor soing in a Xian/muslim country anyway? - it's not as if there's a load of ex-colonial Africans or Polynesian residents/citizens.

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>The point here is that "screw a hedgehog" is a well known Serbian (and generally ex-Yu) saying, meaning one's in for a particularly hard ride. As in "you'll have screwed a hedghehog when the boss returns".

So really the WD was saying "Nothing we can do about your getting off before the station; you're screwed" and the guy took him literally? :-)