The story of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon

Okay get comfortable, tonight I am going to tell you the story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. This story (one of our favourites in the long lexicon of "raising the skirt" stories)refers to the "ana suromai" in a very charming way.

King Solomon invited the great and reportedly very beautiful Queen of Sheba to come and pay him a visit. She was on the road for seven years (so the story goes). In that long wait time King Solomon overheard things about her and became ever more anxious about meeting the great Queen. One thing that people said was that she was the devil and that the evidence of that was that she had goats legs. Although stunning to look at, seductive as well as brilliant she accomplished all this as a result of her devilish connections.

Solomon had to know the truth about the Queen before she got too close. He had a lot of time to plan and this is what the clever king did. He had constructed in his receiving room a long narrow pool. Solomon foresaw that Sheba would have to lift her skirts to cross the pool before she reached the throne to greet and pay homage to him (apparently no slouch himself). He tried out the pool trick on everyone, every single non suspecting female in the court at the time. Yup, they all raised their skirts to cross the pool as planned!!!! That accomplished, he fought a few wars, gave really really good advice and waited.

Finally the day came when Sheba and her extensive retinue arrived in Solomon's kingdom. She was impressive as she rode into town, as stunning as they said, skirt right down to the ground.

When she arrived at court and was led into the receiving room she was amused to find the lovely long pool but she felt delighted and relieved as well as the journey had been hot. So,helped by one of her attending ladies, (Solomon holding his breath) she raised her skirts to make the descent into the shallow pool.

Solomon nearly wept for joy.... the gorgeous Queen did not have goats' legs after all she simply had very hairy legs! Solomon welcomed her into his kingdom and (as we all know) into his heart and eventually into his bed (but not for a long, long time) and in the meantime, while patiently waiting he wrote her tons of love poems (check the Bible)and... and.... and.... the most charming aspect of this whole story he invented(just for her)a depilatory cream. Forget about the Songs of Solomon that is love!!!!!