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Old Jul 28th 2013, 9:21 pm
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US golfer Hunter Mahan had a two-shot lead in the Canadian Open Golf Championship on Friday night...... first prize: USD 1,000,000............ then his wife goes into labour, about three weeks early.......... too important to miss, so off he goes.............

So it's a nice 'Hello and welcome' to Zoe Mahan..........

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/...083458453.html
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US golfer Hunter Mahan had a two-shot lead in the Canadian Open Golf Championship on Friday night...... first prize: USD 1,000,000............ then his wife goes into labour, about three weeks early.......... too important to miss, so off he goes.............

So it's a nice 'Hello and welcome' to Zoe Mahan..........

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/...083458453.html
If you've already got millions, then fair enough, but if I was giving birth and it was either have my husband there, or have him bring in a million a few days later, I'd take the cash.
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Originally Posted by Kim67
If you've already got millions, then fair enough, but if I was giving birth and it was either have my husband there, or have him bring in a million a few days later, I'd take the cash.
Agree totally. Its overrated anyway.
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cash for sure
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Default Re: One million dollars? Or attend the birth of your first child?

He's got enough money:

Hunter Mahan
Height:5-11
Weight:175
Born:5/17/82
Birth Place:Orange, California, United States
College:Oklahoma State
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Career Earnings:$25,015,761
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be at birth for me.
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Default Re: One million dollars? Or attend the birth of your first child?

The birthing room is no place for a man. The money is a reasonable excuse to not be there.

I will never forget being handed mini millhouse - he smelt like mince meat.
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Default Re: One million dollars? Or attend the birth of your first child?

Originally Posted by Millhouse

I will never forget being handed mini millhouse - he smelt like mince meat.
I ****ing love mince meat.
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Default Re: One million dollars? Or attend the birth of your first child?

Originally Posted by Millhouse
The birthing room is no place for a man. The money is a reasonable excuse to not be there.

I will never forget being handed mini millhouse - he smelt like mince meat.


I completely agree
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I ****ing love mince meat.
was it sweet mince or ordinary mince?
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I have witnessed both my kids been born. its a wonderful experience but anyone who wouldn't take a million bucks to miss out on it is wired to the ****ing moon or already minted.

Loads of screaming, blood, smells and a little bundle of joy appears, followed by a tasty looking placenta....what's not to like
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Loads of screaming, blood, smells and followed by a tasty looking placenta....what's not to like
Sounds like a night out in Glasgow
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Originally Posted by weasel decentral
Sounds like a night out in Glasgow
....... or it could even be a night in in Glasgow........
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Both of my kids were c-sections, and husbands were not allowed in the operating theatre. They would check & clean baby, then hand him to me for a quick kiss, and take him away to Daddy for a cuddle whilst I got sewn up (for no1) or to the (gulp still hard to write) Neonatal ICU to put him on a ventilator (for no2).
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