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THE MAN WITH THREE WIVES:

A man has been exposed as a double bigamist after his three wives showed up to visit him in hospital.

Melvyn Reed was recovering from a triple bypass heart operation when his deception was exposed.

The 59-year-old was trying to pass off his third wife, Lyndsey, as a hospital visitor to his second, Denise, when his first and only legal wife, Jean, appeared.

The wives reportedly held a meeting in the parking lot soon after and learned they were all married to the same man.

Triple bypass? Was that one for each wife?
Kind of reminds you of Micki and Maude doesn't it?

(link via Mirty's Place):

A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday.

The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said.

Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone.

Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.

I remember a 30+ year old song by Danny O'Keefe (apparently later done by Dwight Yoakam), "Good time Charlie's got the blues" with the lyrics:

You play it too long you'll lose your life

Then here's a story about the hole in one that took an hour and 4 seconds to reach its mark:

Marthinussen teed off from the 14th hole (par 3, 115 meters) and his ball ended up soaring over the border, which cuts across the green. It took four seconds for the ball to land on the green and roll right into the cup.

But since the 14th's hole is technically in Finland, it's also in a time zone one hour ahead of Sweden's. That meant it actually took one hour and four seconds before Marthinussen's drive plopped into the cup.

Marthinussen said he has played golf for eight years but this was his first hole-in-one. It was duly registered n both countries.

Not really an hour and four seconds, but writing it like that recalls a combination of "Caddyshack" and "Groundhog Day"; both movies where Bill Murray has problems with subterranean creatures.

Then once more we go to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Mere Rhetoric knows how to torture those prisoners:

"Tell us who gave you the money or we'll tell you who dies at the end of the book."

. Yikes. I'm sure Amnesty International will be up in arms about that. Shudder.

Posted by SoccerDad at August 15, 2005 2:19 AM