The Woman Who Married the Eiffel Tower

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on June 7, 2008 at 11:47 am


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"

  1. CheeseDuck
    June 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Heh. Flirting with houses.

  2. ted
    June 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    Maybe Ed McMahon could rent his house to her, and make a bit of cash.

  3. 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?

  4. Susan B.
    June 7th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    Sounds like the ideal marriage; I wish I’d met ‘him’ first!

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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?

  8. dj
    June 7th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    I’m off to marry my local Dairy Queen!!

  9. 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.

  10. SenorMysterioso
    June 7th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    picket? chain link? barbed wire?

  11. Ant
    June 7th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    I want to marry Neatorama! Wait… :P

  12. 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)!

  13. Archbob
    June 7th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    Sorry girl, the tower did not say “I do”.

  14. tomtheman5
    June 8th, 2008 at 1:20 am

    Haha… I’ve been on top of Erika’s ‘man’!

    :oP

  15. 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. :P

  16. 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.

  17. Jake D.
    June 8th, 2008 at 10:26 am

    ted, they never specified what type of fence it was. Could be a dildo fence.

  18. 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?

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. Christophe
    June 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    The Eiffel tower is much more phallic than the Berlin wall. Good call.

  22. 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.

  23. cTitan
    June 9th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    And so continues womankind’s search for the biggest phallus…


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