The Woman Who Married the Eiffel Tower

Remember the Neatorama post about a woman who married the Berlin Wall? Well, it turns out that she’s not the only one. Here’s a story about a woman who married the Eiffel Tower:

Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, has been in love with objects before. Her first infatuation was with Lance, a bow that helped her to become a world-class archer, she is fond of the Berlin Wall and she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.

But it is the Eiffel Tower she has pledged to love, honour and obey in an intimate ceremony attended by a handful of friends.

She has changed her name legally to reflect the bond.

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23 comments to "The Woman Who Married the Eiffel Tower"

CheeseDuck
June 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Heh. Flirting with houses.
ted
June 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Maybe Ed McMahon could rent his house to her, and make a bit of cash.
Anthony
June 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
This is why we can’t have gay marriage in America. What would be next, marrying the St Louis Arch?
Susan B.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Sounds like the ideal marriage; I wish I’d met ‘him’ first!
Knife Knut
June 7th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.

Ew.
Tempscire
June 7th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I gotta say, this married-to-inanimate-objects thing is the most baffling attraction I’ve heard of.
jmp478
June 7th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
“she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.”

Ouch?
dj
June 7th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I’m off to marry my local Dairy Queen!!
lux
June 7th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
“she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.”

Hope its made out of something toxic.
SenorMysterioso
June 7th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
picket? chain link? barbed wire?
Ant
June 7th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I want to marry Neatorama! Wait…
Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
June 7th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
This is obviously some sort of mental disorder, and if you read the attached article, it kind of makes sense (in an odd sort of way). It’s apparently a control thing. Well, think about it. An inanimate object can never talk back or hurt your feelings (but if it does, that’s probably a sign of some other mental disorder)!
Archbob
June 7th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Sorry girl, the tower did not say “I do”.
tomtheman5
June 8th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Haha… I’ve been on top of Erika’s ‘man’!

:oP
Evilbeagle
June 8th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Allowing gay marriage will not open the door to allowing other forms of unconventional, and even twisted “marriage”. I wish people would let go of that stupid idea that they use as an excuse to rob gay people of basic rights and lower them to the level of a mentally ill or otherwise sick individual that would marry a wall or a tower or a sheep. I’m not even gay, and I find that idea completely insulting.

Off the soap box… I agree with Neatoramawontsendmeapassword. Marrying an inanimate object is a control thing. It has to be, because there is really no other benefit involved, and I don’t even want to think about the physical side of things if they exist at all.
ted
June 8th, 2008 at 6:29 am
She would be better off to marry a dildo rather than a piece of fence. Unless it’s one really nice piece of fence.
Jake D.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:26 am
ted, they never specified what type of fence it was. Could be a dildo fence.
Edward
June 8th, 2008 at 11:28 am
She could be nothing more than a well publicized fetishist.

On a humorous note, Does she get half its income when they divorce?
Thomas
June 8th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
The Rick Santorums of the world would like up to believe that gay marriage = you can marry your dog. I don’t buy it. Sorry.
Anthony
June 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
If a man is allowed to marry another man, every US citizen will immediately be legally required to marry a dog. The people who refuse will be sent to internment camps and will be summarily terminated by our lizard overlords who rule from the inside of the earth. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about that.
Christophe
June 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
The Eiffel tower is much more phallic than the Berlin wall. Good call.
ted
June 8th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
There’s a tower in Kansas City that’s way more phallic than either of em. Google the Liberty Memorial Tower and tell me it ain’t packing.
cTitan
June 9th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
And so continues womankind’s search for the biggest phallus…

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The Woman Who Married the Eiffel Tower

Remember the Neatorama post about a woman who married the Berlin Wall? Well, it turns out that she’s not the only one. Here’s a story about a woman who married the Eiffel Tower:

Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, has been in love with objects before. Her first infatuation was with Lance, a bow that helped her to become a world-class archer, she is fond of the Berlin Wall and she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.

But it is the Eiffel Tower she has pledged to love, honour and obey in an intimate ceremony attended by a handful of friends.

She has changed her name legally to reflect the bond.

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