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Couple marry in gibbon wedding
Ananova ^
| 11/30/2004
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Posted on 11/30/2004 1:16:00 PM PST by Red Badger
Two animal conservationists have got married in a gibbon-style wedding ceremony in Thailand.
Briton Sam Lake met Israeli Norka Russin while working as a volunteer for the Return Gibbons to the Forest project at Phuket.
Mr Lake, 26, accompanied by a drum band and carrying trays of gifts, summoned his mate by imitating a male gibbon call.
His 28-year-old bride Israel responded with happy monkey calls while swinging down from a treetop into his embrace, reports The Nation.
After the wedding, at a wildlife sanctuary, the groom said: "Once the gibbon has chosen a mate it will not philander."
The couple also exchanged wedding bands, performed a Thai-style water-cleansing ceremony and registered their marriage in the presence of an official
As a wedding gift to the couple, wildlife officials released
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: gibbon; wedding
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I guess they won't be monkeying around for the honeymoon.....
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:22:01 PM PST
by
Fintan
(Someday we''ll look back on this and plow into a parked car...)
To: martin_fierro; Constitution Day
Gibbon... the decline and fall....
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:23:51 PM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(I'm here because I'm not all there.)
To: Red Badger; Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day; mikrofon; TheBigB; Chad Fairbanks; xsmommy; ...
Two animal conservationists have got married in a gibbon-style wedding ceremony in Thailand. Instead of rice, everyone threw poop.
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:29:08 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
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To: Red Badger
Noted Naturalist
Euell Gibbons 1911-1975.
To: martin_fierro
I understand she even shaved her back for the honeymoon.
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:30:37 PM PST
by
TheBigB
(I sure could go for a charbroiled hamburger sammich and some french fried potatoes!)
To: Red Badger; mhking
And I thought Star Trek weddings were weird.
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:30:48 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
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To: Red Badger
His 28-year-old bride Israel responded with happy monkey calls while swinging down from a treetop into his embrace, reports The Nation.Later, when they were alone, he pleased her by picking ticks out of her hair, then eating them. In ecstacy, she flung per poo at him, and they then consumated their marriage.
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:31:03 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
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To: martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim
Instead of rice, everyone threw poop. The best man was the groom's Chinese buddy, Hu Flung Dung.
To: Red Badger
I guess they won't be monkeying around for the honeymoon....Abba dabba Honeymoon?
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:33:00 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(DU, Michael Moore, Hollywood, etc. are all dogcrap on the Shoe Of Life)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Later, when they were alone, he pleased her by picking ticks out of her hair, then eating them. In ecstacy, she flung per poo at him, and they then consumated their marriage.....and then the lovely couple logged on to DU.
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:34:40 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(DU, Michael Moore, Hollywood, etc. are all dogcrap on the Shoe Of Life)
To: martin_fierro
That was the priest's name: WHO FLUNG POO.....
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:35:45 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If the Red States are JESUSLAND, then the Blue States are SATANLAND......)
To: N. Theknow
A day or so ago we had a gibbous moon...
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:38:01 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: Red Badger
Mr Lake, 26, accompanied by a drum band and carrying trays of gifts, summoned his mate by imitating a male gibbon call. His 28-year-old bride Israel responded with happy monkey calls while swinging down from a treetop into his embrace, reports The Nation.Oh. My. God. This is the funniest thing I have read in a long time. I should bring this one out when my mother in-law starts in about how Mr. RK and I got married!
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:40:33 PM PST
by
retrokitten
(Hell yeah!)
To: retrokitten
Whatever it was, it couldn't have been this nuts!.....
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:42:15 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If the Red States are JESUSLAND, then the Blue States are SATANLAND......)
To: Red Badger
No, we just eloped. There were no wild animal calls and I didn't even swing in from the tree tops. I know- boooo-ring!
I'm really curious to know what they both wore.
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:44:37 PM PST
by
retrokitten
(Hell yeah!)
To: retrokitten
As far as I know, gibbons don't wear anything.......
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:46:30 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If the Red States are JESUSLAND, then the Blue States are SATANLAND......)
To: Red Badger
Wellll....this story gets more interesting by the minute doesn't it? LOL
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posted on
11/30/2004 1:49:58 PM PST
by
retrokitten
(Hell yeah!)
To: martin_fierro
As a wedding gift to the couple, wildlife officials [were] released Were the officials caged? Talk about a captive audience for the reception!
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posted on
11/30/2004 2:06:33 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(There once was a gibbon from Phuket...)
To: martin_fierro
Her parents must've been apoplectic!
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posted on
11/30/2004 2:18:41 PM PST
by
secret garden
(Exit polls? We don't need no stinkin' exit polls!)
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