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01-18-2003, 10:06 AM | #1 |
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1/18/2003: Rolling groom
In the US, it's tradition to throw handfuls of rice grains at a new groom and bride as they leave the wedding chapel. In Matsunoyamamachi, Japan, they have a better tradition - they throw the groom. Down a snowy hillside. The tradition developed centuries ago, when locals gave the same hurl to an out-of-towner who had the nerve to marry a local gal. |
01-18-2003, 10:51 AM | #2 |
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Are you sure that he wasn't just standing on top of that hill, and smushed wedding cake all over the bride's face? That justifies sending him ass-over-teakettle (now what's the origin of THAT little gem?) down a damn mountain.
Especially if he gets any of the cake on the dress.
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01-20-2003, 11:54 AM | #3 |
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I wanna have a wedding like that. It could be, like, an EXTREME WEDDING! No Fear, Dude! We'd be married in mid-air, like, after base-jumping with the minister from a microwave tower! That way we'd have the microwave burns to memorialize the event! Then my groomsmen would throw me down a hillside, only without snow! Yeah! And I'd have to rock-ski down it! The ring-bearer would be on a bungee cord, too. That way he just jump in, hand me the ring, and then go flying! Wild! TO THE EXTREEEEEME! SURRRGE!
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As I passed the best man, he said something to the tune of "What, nobody gets cake on their face?" I took a small handful, said "Well, I wouldn't say that..." and got him right between the eyes with it. Nobody else caught it until it was over with (my mom took a picture of Rick wiping off his forehead several seconds later), but we got a kick out of it. Quote:
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01-21-2003, 02:31 PM | #5 |
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that figures
You'd *have* to be rolling to keep a smile on your face while being thrown off a cliff at your own wedding party.
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01-21-2003, 03:10 PM | #6 |
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I believe the tradition had been to throw the bride. They changed this, as wearing white, it took some 3 - 4 weeks to find the bride in the snow.
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01-22-2003, 10:57 AM | #7 |
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now you can get married absolutely anywhere you want ...
Thanks to the amazing, new, inflatable church!!!
Nothing in the advertising indicates whether an inflatable bride is included.
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