This is a small one:
Posted on 01/20/2014 7:37:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Says her groom must catch the fish himself
A Saudi man seeking marriage got the shock of his life when the would-be bride demanded what he considered as the most bizarre dowry — a 300kg grouper fish.
The girl told the suitor at her home in the eastern Saudi province of Qateef that she could agree to marry him only if he succeeds in getting her that fish.
“Her condition was that the man himself must catch the fish. He went made and left her home as he considered this condition as impossible,” Al Sada daily said.
That looks like the (extinct) Irish elk!
In the context of a Saudi womens request, it is quite funny.
It’s a good thing she didn’t ask for a 300 lb. Michael Moore groupie.
If only there was a way to contact her and let her know that! LOL!
This is a small one:
They probably meant bride-price.
How about a thirty dollar duck?
I lived in Saudi Arabia FIVE LONG years and the MOTHERS in the family, the matriarchs, decided on who marries whom.
There are NO ifs, ands or buts about it. Both sons and daughters marry whom they are TOLD to marry.
THAT is a Saudi marriage, NOT this silly urban legend.
Ha! The next time a lib politician contacts me asking for support, I will not say "no" or ignore him. I will say "I require a 300 kg grouper fish."
The fish in question is called a “hamur”. Excellent meat.
Fished for it myself in that area of the Persian Gulf.
Bur 300kg? No way, Jose!
Perhaps the man from Qatif should try his luck in the deeper waters of the Red Sea.
On this thread, but doesn’t give much information or origin...
http://www.taurusarmed.net/forums/funny-farm/80194-da-30-point-buck.html
Nah, that looks more like a moose from Sweden.
Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
A moose once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end
of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an
Oslo
dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: “The Hot Hands of an Oslo
Dentist”,
“Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink”...
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...
Extinct Irish Elk Google:
“...and cut my arm on the hatchet.’
And now you have this deep seated urge to put a hook in your mouth.
I *often* have went made and left her home. I mean, have you ever been so far even as decided to when go want to look use more like? It makes you went made and left her home!
Not everyone has a living mother.
Does it have to be a buck deer or will you accept a jackalope?
It isn’t impossible at all. In the Florida Keys there is a grouper called the Jew Fish. They have caught some that are over 500lbs. The world record is 680lbs. You can just dive down there and spear them. He can just land a couple of them, then he will get his bride. He also has to sneak it by the Florida Wildlife Protection Agency.
To catch grouper the easy way, just get dive equipment and spear everyone you see. She asked for 300kg of grouper meat. After a couple weeks, he should get this.
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