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Honey, I’m home! Honey, I’m home! Honey, I’m home!

By Robert Basler
November 13, 2008
humor | romance | wedding

A few weeks ago I had a very popular item about this guy in Nigeria who had 86 wives and was ordered to divorce all but four of them. You may recall it as I wish to file for 82 divorces, please.

Judging from the blog traffic I got, people seem to be pretty darned interested once a guy goes past, say, a couple dozen wives.

Well, he didn’t get the divorces and they threw him in jail, but wait! News comes today that a judge has ordered him to be released unconditionally.

Not only that, the judge also ordered the police to protect the man from the local chiefs who were on his case in the first place! This frees him up to return to his full-time occupation of shopping for anniversary gifts…

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Different guy, lots of wives. King Mswati III watches as bare-breasted virgins compete for his eye in a traditional Reed Dance in Swaziland August 31, 2008. He was looking for a 14th wife. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

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Nov 14, 2008
10:35 am UTC

I guess the judges figured he’d be punished enough by having to listen to 86 nagging wives all wanting to know where he had been for the last few days.

Posted by Miguel | Report as abusive
 
Nov 14, 2008
11:52 am UTC

If one wife gives you a lot to do, imagine 86…

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UmNome

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Posted by UmNome | Report as abusive
 
Nov 14, 2008
12:32 pm UTC

It’s good to be the Kahuna.

Posted by Freerefill | Report as abusive
 
Nov 15, 2008
9:45 am UTC

this man must love self punishment! one wife is torture so imagine 86! i am sure his house must sound like a chicken coop! nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag.

Posted by bigfish033 | Report as abusive
 
Nov 18, 2008
5:53 am UTC

Just wait for the synchronized time of the month OUCH!!

Honeys, I’m just going to run for my life now!

Posted by Santu | Report as abusive
 

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