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Pexxa Must Be Bursting With Pride
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:35 pm
by Lord Jim
A couple who won last year's annual World Wife Carrying Championships in Finland have been crowned the winners for the second year running, after beating off steep competiton.
The event, which is in its 15th year, attracted 55 couples from around the world, with some travelling from Australia, Poland and Ireland to take part in the race in Sonkajarvi, eastern Finland.
The winning pair, Taisto Miettinen and Kristiina Haapanen from Finland, won the wife's weight in beer as their prize.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/b ... 791153.stm
Re: Pexxa Must Be Bursting With Pride
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:58 pm
by kristina
did anyone send him an invite to come over and visit us here?
Re: Pexxa Must Be Bursting With Pride
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:53 pm
by @meric@nwom@n
I did, never saw any acknowledgment that he got it or was interested.
Re: Pexxa Must Be Bursting With Pride
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:09 pm
by Joe Guy
He probably hurt his back and has been spending his time drinking his wife's weight in beer.
Re: Pexxa Must Be Bursting With Pride
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:30 pm
by Andrew D
"... dominated, as ever, by the Finns and Australians ...." Gob? Hen?
Anyway, it's been at least four days since the competition. Surely pexxa has long since finished consuming his prize ....
Re: Pexxa Must Be Bursting With Pride
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:39 pm
by Lord Jim
won the wife's weight in beer as their prize.
I thought that was really fair way to determine the prize...
Obviously, a contestant with a lighter wife would have a distinct advantage, so it only seems fair that the bigger the wife, the bigger the prize...