quote:LONDON - Some people bring flowers, others bring balloons. When Melvyn Reed's three wives showed up to visit him at the hospital, they brought an unexpected curtain call to his years as a double bigamist.
British police confirmed that after Melvyn Reed woke from his triple bypass heart operation earlier this year, his complicated marital affairs took a turn for a worse. All three of his spouses had turned up at the same time, despite his efforts to stagger their visits.
Media reports say that, upon realizing that something was amiss, the wives held a meeting in the parking lot, and learned that they were all married to the same man.
I feel this takes serious skill.
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Wait 'til the other seven wives hear about this.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
The article makes it sound so benign - "the wives held a meeting in the parking lot" - but can you imagine how that conversation must have been?
I'm assuming some very choice words were said about the character lying upstais in bed.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Once when I was chaplain-on-call at a hospital I was called to the family waiting room in Emergency. As I walked into the Emergency Department, one of the nurses pulled me aside and said, “Before you go in there . . . the one in the red shirt is the wife, the one in the pink shirt is the girlfriend.” o_O They’d apparently just found out about each other as well.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Huh. I found it unbelievable in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Vinculus had five wives, none of whom knew about the others). Guess I should've suspended my disbelief.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Well, it's not hard to figure out why he had the heart attack at the tender age of 59. Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
What do you suppose you do? Tell them all that you have to travel a lot for work? I think I would start to be suspicious if my husband wasn't, you know, sleeping at home.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Naw, twinky. I think it would have been easier to pull that off in that era. Some sailors had wives in every port. Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I think I saw a movie about this once....
I can't remember, but I think it was a guy who had two wives in the hospital both giving birth at the same time who didn't know about each other... or something like that.
Anyone remember this?
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
Malcolm in the Middle has an episode about this. I think "Fool for Love", by Sam Shepard, also has this theme.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Wow. Where did he find the energy to maintain 3 households?
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
quote:When Melvyn Reed's three wives showed up to visit him at the hospital, they brought an unexpected curtain call to his years as a double bigamist.
Shouldn't that be "trigamist"?
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Nope, only two of the marriages were bigamy (edit: though of course, you were likely only going for the joke ).
Also, it appears that he didn't live with all three at once, but that he married each after separating from the previous (and had recently left the third to return to the first).
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
It might have been Quantum Leap... I just can't remember.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
And what about filing taxes? One would think that would cause problems, too.
Posted by J T Stryker (Member # 6300) on :
I think that man deserves a cigar...
If I were him, I'd be smoking a lot and hoping for another heart attack before any of my wives returns to castrate me...
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I saw this and immediately thought, "Gee, that was hard enough in Fable."
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"I think I saw a movie about this once...."
"Coffee, Tea, or Me?"
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
Why on earth would anyone want more than one wife?
Posted by J T Stryker (Member # 6300) on :
Didn't the Mormons use to have more than one wife?
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Liz, that title doesn't ring a bell. But I didn't see the whole movie either. (I think it was a movie.) It just happened to be on and I watched part of it.
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
I can see 2, maybe 3 wives, tops. Any more is just crazy.
Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
arn't muslims allowed 4 but unlimited amount of misstresses?
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
They get four wives in India, by law.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Don't they have laws against cruel and unusual punishment over there?
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
Wow, they don't even give you one in our crappy western society.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Abbott and Costello routine I believe.
Abbott: If you marry both girls, that's Bigamy. Costello: If I marry both girls I thinks its awfully big of me too.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
Jebus -
Perhaps I should say if a Muslim man can find four women who will deign to marry him, and he can survive long enough to do so, the law allows it.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Heh, heh, Dan. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
quote:Originally posted by beverly: Liz, that title doesn't ring a bell. But I didn't see the whole movie either. (I think it was a movie.) It just happened to be on and I watched part of it.
Bev, the movie I am speaking of was a 60's or early 70's movie, and he has a wife in England and one in the US. One is a stewardess.
In Paint Your Wagon the female lead has two husbands. Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Muslim law in Sri Lanka means a man can have up to four wives as well. Fahim has an uncle who has two.
The mistresses bit for Muslims is hogwash. It is against Islam to engage in extra-marital sex.
And also in Sri Lanka, according to Kandyan law, a woman can have as many husbands as she wants, as long as they're all brothers.
Posted by Darth Ender (Member # 7694) on :
Rand Al'Thor?
Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
quid: as long as they are all brothers...? Doesn't sound right.
But ya maybe the three wives will accept that they all love their husband and might all move to one house and one bed with him? He'ld be an encrebibly luck SOB then.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
There was definitely a Doogie Howser like this (only I think that schlub only had two wives). I guess the moral of the story is: Marry more than one wife, and your heart will give out.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Isn't it legal in the U.S. for women to have as many husbands as they want? I thought Dag told us that in some polygamy thread or other.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I think it's just not explicitly forbidden yet.
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Heh, probably because there is a lack of women stupid enough to put up with more than one of us. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, there have been polyandrous marriages in our history.
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