{"id":62,"date":"2006-08-11T13:06:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=62"},"modified":"2006-08-11T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T12:06:49","slug":"marrying-a-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Marrying (a) twin(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend in South Africa has sent me a translation of an item from a newspaper in Thailand annnouncing the marriage of a Thai man to twins. Now I&#8217;m married to a twin and, in some respects, it&#8217;s a very interesting experience (they talk on the phone an <i>average<\/i> of once a day) but, besides moral and legal considerations, I wouldn&#8217;t want to share a home with my wife&#8217;s twin sister. Let&#8217;s just say, as my mother used to puit it: you can have too much of a good thing.<br \/>\nFor more information on the Thai guy &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSubject: <b>Lucky Man Marries Thai Twins!<\/b><br \/>\n(Translated from the Thai Rath Newspaper, 24 March)<br \/>\nAfter Mr Wichai (Tao), aged 24, from Samut Songkram province, who earns his living by dealing in old goods, got married to gorgeous twins Ms Sirintara and Ms Thipawan 22, he vouched his sincerest &#8216;equal love&#8217; for both of them!<br \/>\nMr Wichai, just yesterday, 23 March, got married in a pompous ceremony to both twins simultaneously.<br \/>\nOn being interviewed by the Thai Rath reporters, Mr Wichai declared wholeheartedly, that he didn&#8217;t see much problem in having to perform tiresome marital duties with two wives.<br \/>\nIn the engagement ceremony before the wedding, Mr Wichai successfully offered a dowry of eight baht of gold and 80,000 baht EACH for his lovely darlings.<br \/>\nBoth families celebrated the marriage with joy and were said to be delighted for the threesome.<br \/>\nMr Wichai told the press that he had been best of friends with his neighbouring twins since they were children.<br \/>\n&#8220;When I grew older, I would walk past their house each morning and try to decide for myself which one I fancied more, but it  was darned impossible &#8211; I adored BOTH of them &#8211; I just couldn&#8217;t decide, which one of them to chat up&#8230;.!&#8221;<br \/>\nHe went on to say, &#8216;For three continuous years all three of us would go on dates together, until there was one day when I couldn&#8217;t stand the frustration any longer and told them, &#8220;I love you and want to marry you BOTH&#8221;&#8216;<br \/>\nThe fortunate Mr Wichai, instead of getting a slap in the face, was overjoyed when both girls admitted to having sworn all along,<br \/>\nthat they wished to marry the same man!<br \/>\n&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t easy at first, what with the neighbours gossiping, but our family sympathized, understood, and fully supported our mutual love for the one man&#8221; the twins said.<br \/>\nMr Wichai arranged for his brides to live with him, in his family house after the wedding, and his mother has already proudly prepared TWO rooms for the newly-weds.<br \/>\nOur reporters were just gagging to hear the response to this mouth-watering question:-<br \/>\n&#8220;And&#8230;. what are the sleeping arrangements Mr Wichai&#8221;? to which he replied modestly with a beaming smile<br \/>\n&#8220;Absolutely no problems! For the first three nights of the week, I will sleep with Ms Thipawan and the next three will be spent with Ms Sirintara. As for every Saturday, the three of us will sleep together&#8221;<br \/>\nMs Sirintara finally told the press,<br \/>\n&#8220;When my twin and I worked as assistant nurses, we promised each other that we would never leave each other&#8217;s side, and that our future husband would have to either take us both, or leave us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend in South Africa has sent me a translation of an item from a newspaper in Thailand annnouncing the marriage of a Thai man to twins. Now I&#8217;m married to a twin and, in some respects, it&#8217;s a very interesting experience (they talk on the phone an average of once a day) but, besides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}