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Man marries pillow
metro.co.uk ^
| March 9, 2010
| Tom Phillips
Posted on 03/09/2010 7:12:35 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.
'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: culturewar; marriagelaws; marries; napl; otaku; pillow
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To: shibumi
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posted on
03/09/2010 9:28:24 PM PST
by
Semper Mark
("We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - AESOP)
To: Free ThinkerNY
He looks EXACTLY like what I visualized he would look like before I “opened” the picture (my graphics are always off). How is it that I knew what he would look like??
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posted on
03/09/2010 9:49:06 PM PST
by
my_pointy_head_is_sharp
(The Wright Bros never imagined that in the future we would all be stripping naked in order to fly.)
To: TheOldLady; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Why marry a pillow when synthetic filling is cheap and plentiful?
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posted on
03/09/2010 10:11:22 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Jim Robinson is the onle person that sweets proper nut sweet. leave the man alone."--Sarah-bot)
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Sarah-bot; Salamander; Slings and Arrows; Markos33
Look, Sarah-bot! They made one just for you!
I bet it's a relation and a function.
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posted on
03/09/2010 10:19:53 PM PST
by
shibumi
("..... then we will fight in the shade.")
To: shibumi
I'm gonna have my boyfriend whup yer ass for that.
66
posted on
03/09/2010 11:36:17 PM PST
by
Salamander
(....and I'm sure I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest.......)
To: mylife
You took the word right out of my mouth.
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posted on
03/10/2010 5:12:49 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I hope that they dated for an appropriate amount of time and that this wasn’t a rash decision.
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posted on
03/10/2010 5:57:50 AM PST
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TheOldLady
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." -- Albert Camus)
To: shibumi
Okay shibumi, you are starting to freak me out.
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posted on
03/10/2010 6:09:58 AM PST
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Sarah-bot
(Palin is spry.)
To: Sarah-bot; Slings and Arrows; Salamander; Markos33
"Okay shibumi, you are starting to freak me out."
At last!.
My raison d'être!
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03/10/2010 6:15:05 AM PST
by
shibumi
("..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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