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mikehayes19
July 17, 2008

The Wife-Carrying World Championships

http://steady-burn.blogspot.com/2008/07/wife-carrying-world-championships.html

this is unreal...The winner gets his wife's weight in beer... It is derived from the tribal practice of wife stealing. I always assumed that Finland was sort of a dark, decrepit country - incapable of something so righteous. I guess I was mistaken.

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