The Just for Laughs 2010 Twins Parade on Saturday was twice the fun of a standard parade. (Is that enough of hack opening for you?)

Held in Montreal, the event is comprised of more than 500 twins from such far-reaching locales as Australia, Nigeria and America. (Though most of the pairs were from Quebec.) Residents were doing double-takes (more twin puns to come) as their French-Canadian streets filled with those who sprang from a single zygote that split and formed two embryos.

The theme for this year's parade, the 13th annual celebration, was "Ballroom." Each pair sported caricatures of themselves as they paraded down St. Catherine's Street delighting the crowd of thousands by showing off their rare trait: a sibling doppelganger.


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Montreal Twins Parade

The sight of twins, after twins, after twins, after more twins was as surreal as a Fellini film on mushrooms.

Montreal Twins Parade

In general, the sight of twins make people very happy in the same manner as an army of Santas sporting gifts.

Montreal Twins Parade

At that moment, all I wanted to do is permanently live in a world comprised of twins walking. Though it makes people feel slightly lonely to not have an identical sibling.

Montreal Twins Parade

Look again. What did they put in the water in Montreal? For some reason there were so many hot French-speaking twins in Quebec. Oh-la-la!

Montreal Twins Parade

The reaction made me confirm that everyday there should be a twins parade-in all cities. What I'm saying is no one here suffered from even an ounce of Geminiphobia.

Montreal Twins Parade

Here's a joke. What's the most popular fruit for Montreal's Twins Parade? Answer: Pears.

Montreal Twins Parade

The Twins Parade culminated at the Just for Laughs pavilion with the Great Twins Ball, where an orchestra played "Swan Lake" as the twins paired off for a final waltz.

Montreal Twins Parade

Other than that, the Twins Parade made me feel like a giddy little kid, wishing that I had another half to share secrets of the world with or an evil doppelganger to ruin my good name.

Montreal Twins Parade

The oldest set of twins were over 100 years old---each! That's a crazy 200 combined twin years.

Montreal Twins Parade