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Wife carrying (contest)

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by cwerdna, Jul 8, 2012.

  1. cwerdna

    cwerdna Senior Member

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    Is this going to be in the Olympic Games? (I'm sure this was being done back in Ancient Greece.)
     
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    "It also purportedly stems from an even earlier tribal practice of wife-stealing, in honour of which many contestants now take up the challenge with someone else's wife."
     
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    You can interpret the above sentence in two completely different ways.
     
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    Years ago at the Buckwheat festival at Kingwood, Preston county, WV they had a contest called "Hog calling for women" hmm
     
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    Indeed!
     
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    Thread resurrection...

    I've been finally making my way thru my recording of the Olympics Opening Ceremony and Finland came up. In the commentary, they mentioned wife carrying competition, amongst other weird sports. I did a quick Google search to see if it'd be discussed here before, only to find I started the thread almost 6 years ago! :eek:

    It's still going on, apparently. Found
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