As you no doubt know, I
celebrated my 28th wedding anniversary earlier this month.
My marriage is rock solid, and I am married to the girl of my dreams.
I cannot imagine being married to anyone else …
But evidently, one wife is not enough for some people in this world.
Leave it to my Yahoo News feed to tell me all about it.
A pretty prolific guy just left us, and if you want to believe this story, this fellow was truly one for the books.
A man believed to have the world’s largest family, including 39 wives, 94 children, 33 grandchildren and one great grandchild, passed away the other day in India.
According to the story, Ziona Chana, 76, was the head of a polygamous Christian religious sect with 4,000 members. The sect was founded by his father.
His extended family all lived together in one 100-room, four-story mansion.
He married his first wife, Zathiangi, when he was 17, and reportedly wedded 10 of his other wives in the space of one year. His last marriage came in 2004 to a 25-year-old woman.
How did this guy keep count of what was going on?
Chana, a construction worker, developed a system for which of his wives would share his bed on any given night. When he was scurrying around with one of his wives, the others shared a dormitory, waiting for his beck and call.
He was quoted in a story in the Daily Mirror in 20212 as saying, “I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world’s largest family."
Chana died after his diabetes and hypertension finally got to him.
And what’s more, his claim of being head of the world’s largest family has been disputed.
Closer to home, a Canadian man has allegedly fathered 150 children.
Heck, I just fathered two—one in my first marriage and one in my second marriage--and after the second one, my wife and I decided that was enough.
Heck, evidently I have a lot of catching up to do, with only two marriages and two kids to show for all my years as a citizen of the world.
I mean, this guy … what would drive somebody to marry so many women—well, I kind of get that—and have so many kids?
And is this all legal?
It seems that strange things and stories have always come out of India, whether it is a kid born with three arms or some other kid born in a fish-like state.
Remember how your mother used to say, “Eat up your food, because people in India are starving.”
I guess this guy wasn’t starving in any way, shape or form, whether with food or with his wives and what they provided to him.
He was a construction worker, yet he lived in a mansion … hmmmm …. I didn’t know construction workers could afford such accommodations.
And how did he put food on the table for so many people?
And heck, how did he live to age 76 with so many wives to take care of?
He had diabetes and hypertension, but I guess some people might feel it was worth it with so many spouses to take care of you, if you know what I mean.
And the $64,000 question is now this: with the leader of this clan now deceased, what happens with his massive family, his wives and his mansion?
The wives are all widows, and how are they going to settle his estate?
Evidently, the family was well known in India, with their enormous size not only making the village that they lived in into a tourist attraction, but they were also featured in a popular television commercial of a leading dishwasher brand, so I guess they were accepted as they were by the area they lived in and by India itself.
How are they going to manage with their patriarch gone?
Will someone set up a GoFundMe page to help them out?
What is their next step?
I haven’t the slightest idea, but in these times we live in, I guess I needed a laugh early in the morning, and this story was my laugh of the day.
I hope that you laughed with me at this story, and it reaffirmed just how valuable Yahoo News is to my everyday existence …
Not.
Where is Elizabeth Hurley when you need her?
My marriage is rock solid, and I am married to the girl of my dreams.
I cannot imagine being married to anyone else …
But evidently, one wife is not enough for some people in this world.
Leave it to my Yahoo News feed to tell me all about it.
A pretty prolific guy just left us, and if you want to believe this story, this fellow was truly one for the books.
A man believed to have the world’s largest family, including 39 wives, 94 children, 33 grandchildren and one great grandchild, passed away the other day in India.
According to the story, Ziona Chana, 76, was the head of a polygamous Christian religious sect with 4,000 members. The sect was founded by his father.
His extended family all lived together in one 100-room, four-story mansion.
He married his first wife, Zathiangi, when he was 17, and reportedly wedded 10 of his other wives in the space of one year. His last marriage came in 2004 to a 25-year-old woman.
How did this guy keep count of what was going on?
Chana, a construction worker, developed a system for which of his wives would share his bed on any given night. When he was scurrying around with one of his wives, the others shared a dormitory, waiting for his beck and call.
He was quoted in a story in the Daily Mirror in 20212 as saying, “I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world’s largest family."
Chana died after his diabetes and hypertension finally got to him.
And what’s more, his claim of being head of the world’s largest family has been disputed.
Closer to home, a Canadian man has allegedly fathered 150 children.
Heck, I just fathered two—one in my first marriage and one in my second marriage--and after the second one, my wife and I decided that was enough.
Heck, evidently I have a lot of catching up to do, with only two marriages and two kids to show for all my years as a citizen of the world.
I mean, this guy … what would drive somebody to marry so many women—well, I kind of get that—and have so many kids?
And is this all legal?
It seems that strange things and stories have always come out of India, whether it is a kid born with three arms or some other kid born in a fish-like state.
Remember how your mother used to say, “Eat up your food, because people in India are starving.”
I guess this guy wasn’t starving in any way, shape or form, whether with food or with his wives and what they provided to him.
He was a construction worker, yet he lived in a mansion … hmmmm …. I didn’t know construction workers could afford such accommodations.
And how did he put food on the table for so many people?
And heck, how did he live to age 76 with so many wives to take care of?
He had diabetes and hypertension, but I guess some people might feel it was worth it with so many spouses to take care of you, if you know what I mean.
And the $64,000 question is now this: with the leader of this clan now deceased, what happens with his massive family, his wives and his mansion?
The wives are all widows, and how are they going to settle his estate?
Evidently, the family was well known in India, with their enormous size not only making the village that they lived in into a tourist attraction, but they were also featured in a popular television commercial of a leading dishwasher brand, so I guess they were accepted as they were by the area they lived in and by India itself.
How are they going to manage with their patriarch gone?
Will someone set up a GoFundMe page to help them out?
What is their next step?
I haven’t the slightest idea, but in these times we live in, I guess I needed a laugh early in the morning, and this story was my laugh of the day.
I hope that you laughed with me at this story, and it reaffirmed just how valuable Yahoo News is to my everyday existence …
Not.
Where is Elizabeth Hurley when you need her?
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