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Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:37 pmby JAS
Just heard about this on the news
I find it very difficult to believe she's a willing participent
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8331136.stmSomali man, '112', weds girl, 17
Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife.
Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 18 children by five wives - said he would like to have more with his new wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is 17 years old.
"Today God helped me realise my dream," Mr Dore said, after the wedding in the region of Galguduud.
The bride's family said she was "happy with her new husband".
Mr Dore said he and his bride - who is young enough to be his great-great-grand-daughter - were from the same village in Somalia and that he had waited for her to grow up to propose.
"I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love; and then we agreed to marry," the groom said.
The BBC's Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says the marriage in the town of Guriceel is being described by Somalian historians as the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa nation for over a century.
Regards
JAS
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:40 pmby Columbo
Lucky he didnt wait til she was 18!
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:06 pmby GWW
I wonder if they invited his grandparents
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:06 pmby bayman
dore must be the hugh hefner of somalia
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:05 pmby StrayDog
At least with the crowd size he wouldn't have any trouble finding someone to lift him on and off.
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:07 pmby spell_check
Well, it must be Somalias' version of a publicity stunt.
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:18 pmby catchit
more kids?? i bet she cant wait for the forplay
someone should inform her of the old i have a headache trick...
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:26 pmby JAS
This was the bit that made me squirm...imagine growing up knowing that was what you had to look forward to...I'd have run off joined the pirates and taken my chances against the French (other nations are available) Navy
were from the same village in Somalia and that he had waited for her to grow up to propose.
Regards
JAS
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:29 pmby spell_check
Also, he would be only 72 or at the most 82 - no way someone from Somalia would be 100+ with their life expectancy rates.
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:44 pmby A Mum
All sounds pretty gross to me
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:54 pmby JAS
spell_check wrote:Also, he would be only 72 or at the most 82 - no way someone from Somalia would be 100+ with their life expectancy rates.
An exception is always possible but I agree that being 100+ is highly unlikely and I doubt there'll ever be a way to verify his age as I'd imagine Somalia probably doesn't have the same record keeping systems that other countries do.
But even a 60+ year age difference is, as Mum says above, gross
Regards
JAS
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:19 pmby JK
I dont understand what all the fuss is about
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:00 amby Strawb
i wonder if he can get it up?? Viagra by the boatload
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:30 amby zipzap
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:39 amby Wedgie
haha, brothers and sisters 70 years or more apart. Aunties and Uncles potentially being 70 years younger than their neices and nephews.
I can smell a Hollywood movie!
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:14 amby Bum Crack
spell_check wrote:Also, he would be only 72 or at the most 82 - no way someone from Somalia would be 100+ with their life expectancy rates.
I think they meant 112 grams, not 112 years.
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:51 amby Farmy
Only in Africa
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:41 amby Pseudo
She's obviously a little gold digger....
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:47 amby Johno6
he looks like one of the guys from the michael jackson skit on hey hey its saturday
Re: Wedding of the year??????????
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:28 pmby Psyber
Theres hope for me yet - anyone got a nice teenage daughter they want to sell.. err.. "betroth".
