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Ahhhh, if I had a time for every time I’d said, “Man, I wish I could just marry my dog.” He’s faithful, he’s adorable, he’s very smart, he gets along with my friends, he loves me unconditionally, and he always wants to cuddle. If only he were human.
But a Ghanian woman has decided to throw caution and hope to the wind and actually marry her dog.
Emily Mabou, 29, of Aburi, married the 18-month-old dog in a ceremony attended by a traditional priest and local, curious villagers. Said Miss Mabou: “For so long, I’ve been praying for a life partner who will have all the qualities of my [late] dad. My dad was kind, faithful, and loyal to my mum, and he never let her down. I’ve been in relationships with so many men here in Togo, and they are all the same — skirt-chasers and cheaters. My dog is kind, and loyal to me and he treats me with so much respect.”
Her younger brother David Mabou said her family boycotted the wedding which they felt was “a stupid step to combat her loneliness.”
Asked how she intends to raise children with her new husband, Ms Mabou said simply: “We will adopt.”
This is all very sweet and cute (and tragic), but it kind of begs the question: Is she going to be having sex with this dog now?
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Kinda depends on if she was one of those “wait for marriage” sort of people….
Better question: is this whole “people can marry their pets” a direct response from Tongo allowing gay marriage?
Oh Noes! Rush Limbaugh was Right!!!
see? that’s what happens when gays are allowed to marry – people start marrying animals and everything gets all kitty-whumpus!
Yeah? Go die in a fire.
I think she was kidding.
it’s called sarcasm, jeremy. duh.
yeah, I’m quite sure this was a joke- and a pretty funny one at that. It’s the first thing that popped into my head, since some people against gay marriage ALWAYS bring up the whole “UGHGHHGH WHATS NEXT?!?!? PEOPLE CAN MARRY ANIMALS?!?!?!”
like it’s somehow similar at all. so annoying.
With people like those on other threads, I stopped reading like a normal person due to how many warped viewpoints some people espouse…so, until she comes out and says it was a joke I’m assuming she is a hideous and ridiculous person.
totally understandable dear! :)
wow – alot of people on this board are kind of dim-witted. it was a joke, people.
oh snap. don’t be like that. it’s not that surprising…. we have our fair share of crazy commenters here. and what made your joke funny is that some people actually DO think stuff like that, ya know?
can’t we all just hug?
I got it but it’s so hard to read tone on the internet and Jeremy is right, we’ve had some right nutters the past couple of days and I could totally see one of them saying the same thing but actually meaning it. As a general rule of thumb, if I’m making a joke like that that could be taken totally the wrong way I’ll stick a winking smilie on the end. There’s always the chance that someone will get offended anyway but if they ignore the wink and start something you can just tell them to go suckit.
You want to call me dim-witted? Bitch please.
My point was that with people like RightHooks, or whatever, you just can’t tell anymore.
jeremy – i would have thought using a nonsensical term like kittywhumpus would have tipped you off that it was a tongue in cheek jab at all the rush limbaughs who think that gay marriage = social collapse (“gays marrying? can marrying animals be far behind?”). also, i have supported gay marriage on other threads quite vocally, and i guess i assumed that we “regulars” kind of know where the others stand on certain issues. in the future if you are uncertain whether someone is using sarcasm you might want to ask before freaking out and telling them to “die in a fire” – WTF?! your response was ignorant, inappropriate, reactionary and hateful – ironically, just the type of thing i would expect to hear from someone like rush limbaugh.
I don’t appreciate your use of condescension as a method of justifying your highly inappropriate “joke.”
and i don’t appreciate you telling me to “die in a fire.” seriously – what is wrong with you?
snap, I think most of us *were* thinking you were joking, it was just a safe thing what we did. Sometimes it’s hard to pick up on sarcasm on the web and remember which username believes in what. but everything’s cool now, carry on! :)
“Better question: is this whole “people can marry their pets” a direct response from Tongo allowing gay marriage?
Oh Noes! Rush Limbaugh was Right!!!”
jeremy – this was kaylia’s response – it was posted right above my original post. in case you are unsure, she is using sarcasm here. is this ok with you, or should she die in a fire, too?
I’m not going to engage you anymore.
Okay, I lied, I have one more thing to say.
Just because you were using sarcasm doesn’t mean your jokes weren’t in extremely poor taste.
“Just because you were using sarcasm doesn’t mean your jokes weren’t in extremely poor taste.”
this coming from a man who tells people to die in a fire. grow up and get a sense of humor.
I cannot believe I have to bust out Tiffany again, twice in one week!
“Children Behaaaaaaaaaave!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi7ZReTMLTw
does this mean we are not hugging?
SARCASM ALERT: can i hug jeremy if i’m on fire? yay!
ugh, nevermind
I sincerely hope you were being sarcastic.
that was a reply to snap
Nah, this is nothing. Now if she married a *female* dog, see THAT would make things interesting. jk
I think the real question is who’s going to change their adopted baby’s diapers?
Presumably the one with the opposable thumbs. However, I’m sure that the dog would be happy to lick the baby’s butt clean. Teamwork at it’s finest.
Hahaha! Oh, man…
I sure hope nobody lets “them” adopt.
I wonder what the dog has to say about this?
Hahahahaahahahahaha!
What’s she going to do if she catches her dog humping someone else’s leg? Or better yet, behind the bushes with that cute little poodle from down the street?
Yeah, that’ll probably happen, and she deserves it.
Togo! She lives in Togo! I was in the Peace Corps in Togo! I wonder which city she lives in. Hilarious…I never hear about Togo, ever!
Man that dog looks so ridiculously cute in that outfit. While it doesn’t make my little man arise, it does put me in the mood for a good cuddle.
jajaja!!
Jeremy…another no tolerance, hollier than thou liberal without the capability of cognition I suppose? It was sure a joke. and then you ponder why people pigeonhole “you” (as a group of similar things/people…)
You’re ridiculous. Go crawl back into your hole and emerge when you have something of substance to say, instead of just spouting canned hate-speech you ripped off Ann Coulter.
I just wonder how such a “marriage” can really be considered legitimate, when the dog can’t exactly understand the vows and say “I do.” A dog doesn’t have the capacity to make and keep a legal commitment like that. I would never marry an animal for the same reason I don’t make business deals with animals.
I read the source article and it seems like it was the village priest who married them. So I’m guessing it’s not legal.
I wonder how the divorce will go when she does catch the dog cheating with a poodle, like Sydney suggested.
Does she just say, “Bad dog!” and stop feeding him so he goes away?
This thread proved to be a delicate piece of entertainment, didn’t it?
Interesting… I have to wonder what the “traditional” priest was thinking while this was going down.
come on jeremy-admit it. you could not understand humor even if it hit you in the face. and unfortunately for you my friend your nazi loving wetdreams of detention of all dissidents are far from realization, still.
OMG Jeremy—- you love Nazis??!?!!!? Why didn’t you ever tell me?
and what is this “detention of all dissidents” shit? What the fuck are you talking about?
I’m guessing that he/she is talking about Denver airport and other secret facilities where we’re going to lock up all the dissidents when the NWO takes over. There’s a definite air of conspiracy nut about this post.