This guy got this woman to marry him?

[GURUving]

"Former sumo wrestler Konishiki appears with Chie Iijima, for a press conference to announce their marriage at a Tokyo hotel Monday, Jan. 12, 2004 after Konishiki registered his marriage to the 28-year-old former medical worker Jan. 7. Konishiki, a native of Hawaii, who was the first foreign-born sumo wrestler to attain the second-highest rank of ozeki, has taken up a career as a TV celebrity in Japan since retiring from sumo in 1997. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo)"

Love is a strange and wondrous thing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. It is indeed

[mac56]

2. Your point being?

True, he's bigger than she is. Therefore....?

[private_ryan]

16. look at the picture again....

you'll see what he means. He probably has a nice life insurance policy. Sumo and long life expectancy don't mix.

[enki23]

20. therefore the sex, if there is any, is really going to suck

nothing more needs to be said, really.

[Lostmessage]

3. She might love him

Have you ever thought about Love?

[GURUving]

6. Yes, hence

love is a strange and wondrous thing. I think I said that.

I wasn't trying to demean anyone, it's just visually different than what is seen on an average day's walk in the park.

I have a friend who is 6 ft 7 inches tall. His wife is 5 ft 1 inch. That is a visually unusual sight also, but they love each other.

[mac56]

10. Right, but...

that's not what your sub line said.

"This guy got this woman to marry him?" You gotta admit, that sounds more loaded and judgmental than "This is visually different than what is seen on an average day's walk in the park".

I'm just sayin'

[ET Awful]

21. True, but in Japan, Sumo wrestlers are VERY highly regarded.

Size is a bit irrelevant. With the respect and honor granted to Sumo in Japan, he would be very desirable to many Japanese women.

[Rattlesnake]

4. That's quite a size difference...

[Beetwasher]

5. Just thinking about the err, umm "logistics"

Maybe I shouldn't...*shudder*....

[NashVegas]

25. Reminds Me of My Childhood

Remember those "hop-a-long" bouncers? Kinda like that ... but different.

[GOPisEvil]

7. He's also quite wealthy...but perhaps they're truly in love.

Who knows?

[ant]

8. how do they have sex?

I always wonder that about couples who are not proportionate to each other. He can't get on top of her, that's for sure, and it seems like his belly would get in the way in a side by side or spooning position. That leaves her on top, but again, how to move that extra body out of the way to get, uh, access...

Yes, these are the questions that haunt me.

[Skittles]

9. carefully

VERY carefully :o

[mac56]

12. Lots of ways, I'm sure.

Use your imagination.

On edit: after all, he is a wrestler.

[enki23]

22. apparently you've never watched sumo matches

they don't "wrestle," at least not in any way that implies flexibility and agility, except perhaps in comparison with *other* morbidly obese people.

[Loonman]

14. Reminds me of a joke I heard

A massive sumo wrestler marries a petite woman.

Of course, all his guy friends wonder how they have sex, so they ask him at the bar, one day.

"Well", he says "What I do is sit in a chair, hold her around the waist with both hands and just move her up and down".

"Isn't that basically just jerking off?", somebody asked

"well, yeah", said the Sumo, "but I have somebody to talk to while I'm doing it"






D'oh!

[geniph]

23. Thank heavens for the Love Swing!

Those of us small folks married to much bigger people know its virtues...

[bicentennial_baby]

11. Sweet!

Very well-known Sumo! Good for her! Congrats to the happy couple! :toast:

[Superfly]

13. Sumo wrestlers are very wealthy....

or, they could be in love. :shrug:

[LuLu550]

15. sumo wrestlers

are like rock stars in Japan

[DS1]

17. she's a walking after dinner mint

[FunBobbyMucha]

18. Once you've gone small meteor, you don't go back.

[DS1]

19. Once you go small meteor, you're not welcome back!

:bounce:

[Bonobo]

24. Konishiki is a super nice guy and a great singer.

Plus he's very into liberal issues such as helping poor kids and anti-teen prostitution in Japan.