Stanley and wife in Africa

After finding Dr. Livingstone, Stanley and his wife decided to tour Africa and were captured by some unfriendly natives, tied together with a long piece of leather, and left dangling over a large cliff. That evening, the natives danced and chanted around the campfire, and as each member passed the leather strap holding the unfortunate couple, he gave it a whack with a stick, causing it to weaken a bit more. As the chanting grew louder and louder,

Stanley looked at his wife romantically and said,

"Listen, darling. They're fraying our thong!"

Fray = sliter ut, Thong = Läderrem, jfr Playing our song.