Makes certain hobbies appear more... rational

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The next time your spouse/SO/Mother/Brother/Sister gets snide about
playing with toy soldiers lay this in fromt of tham and ask if you should
change hobbies.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/5/3/nation/7903162&sec=n
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Snake man gets married, with snakes among VIP guests

BY OPALYN MOK

PENANG: Snake charmer Sabri Abdul Aziz celebrated his wedding day with a
difference. Among the VIP guests at his house in Tanjong Tokong were a
recently-caught adult python, a pet crocodile and a baby python.

The 27-year-old, who had been performing in snake shows in South Korea,
China and Saudi Arabia for the past four years, said snakes had been a part of
his life for so long that he did not want them to be left out on his special
day.

 "I caught the 3.6m-long adult python opposite my house three days
before my wedding," he said.

Sabri, who started catching snakes at a very young age, said the python was
still wild but could be easily tamed.

However, Sabri and his bride, Chebashan Addenan, 26, had no trouble handling
the massive snake, which weighs about 90kg.

The blushing bride, far from shirking away from the snake, did not mind having
it curled up on her lap and a smaller one on her shoulder.

"I started learning to touch and handle snakes the proper way about six months
ago from my husband and am no longer scared of them," she said, at their
bersanding ceremony yesterday afternoon.

Sabri said he had a few other snakes, including a king cobra, but had shipped
them to South Korea for a performance soon.

"I will be going to South Korea with my wife in July to continue with my snake
performances there.

"I am planning to set a record there in October by staying with more than a
thousand poisonous snakes in a room for over two months," he said, adding that
he would prepare his wife to accompany him in the room.