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VIDEO: 'Wife carriers' race for title
bbc ^
| 5 July 2009
Posted on 07/05/2009 8:09:22 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The annual World Wife Carrying Championship, in its 14th year, has taken place in Sonkajarvi, eastern Finland. A total of 36 competitors from 13 different nations took part in the championship. Some participants came from as far away as Australia, Japan and the United States. This year the title was won by a Finnish couple.
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: humor; marriage; olympics; wife
To: JoeProBono
Next year we will be running backwards
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posted on
07/05/2009 8:11:27 PM PDT
by
shadeaud
("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin)
To: JoeProBono
The one in the second photo appears to have some dynamite strapped to her leg?
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posted on
07/05/2009 8:14:14 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/05/2009 8:30:57 PM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(Only dead fish go with the flow...)
To: shadeaud
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posted on
07/05/2009 8:56:56 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: editor-surveyor
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posted on
07/05/2009 8:58:36 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: GSP.FAN
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posted on
07/05/2009 9:00:20 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: All
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posted on
07/05/2009 9:13:00 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: All
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posted on
07/05/2009 9:14:40 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Looks like a ‘husband riding contest’.
Surely the winner is the one with the skinniest wife!
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posted on
07/05/2009 9:27:40 PM PDT
by
Godwin1
(O)
To: Godwin1
I wouldn’t call him that to his face...
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posted on
07/05/2009 9:54:45 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
To: stuartcr
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posted on
07/06/2009 3:14:03 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
To: JoeProBono
Do they have a divorced division?
Judging would be based on the number and amount of checks you need to write her vs what she really needs, and her extravagent lifestyle while you eat sandwiches.
Just wondering. :)
I wouldn’t even place, but sure would like to see the check writers get credit for something
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posted on
07/06/2009 5:40:41 AM PDT
by
5Madman2
(There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
To: Erasmus
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posted on
07/06/2009 6:53:16 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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