<p>Greybeard, I’ve never commented on horseshoes either. You might want to check with Curmudgeon on that one.</p>
<p>Caveat: You might not find the article funny if you are below the age of 30 and have barely lived life-- let alone lived life partnered to a specimen from the opposite gender for a few decades.</p>
<p>Thanks for the overwrought hand-slap though, FS.</p>
<p>I agree with MO3–the Mary Killen bit was the funniest. This passage was pure James Thurber:
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<p>Cheers, I keep reading this as partnered to a speculum. :)</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>You are probably right, sorry, though that is cold-comfort. How dreadful to have to contemplate being partnered to a specimen from the opposite gender for a few decades who, by force of nature, is hard-wired to have these defects.
Moreover, I was probably torn between the conflicting claims made in different threads by the same posters (like those involving female and male aptitudes and dispositions–usually understood as being demeaning to my fair sex) that are adamantly in defense of sameness and homogeneity in gender and those, as this one, that insist upon the exact opposite–often with alternating posting by the very same posters: I should have–at the very least–picked up on the humor in that:)</p>
<p>Larry Summers could have used some of this “love” a while back.
Favorite droll line:
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<p>It’s not dreadful FS. It’s married life and it’s kinda funny. Now…no worries…get some sleep.</p>
<p>slugg…I can guess which doctor you’ve visited this week…;)</p>
<p>Me to my mechanic: “I don’t get why guys are so into different wheels on cars.”
He: “Well, it makes the car look better.” (He’s talking about a BMW–how much better do you want it to look?)
Passing (female) salesperson: “Think of wheels as like a fine pair of Italian leather shoes.”
Me: “That’s what wheels are? Good shoes?”
She: “Yep.”
Need I say that this woman is incredibly successful? She’s bilingual!</p>
<p>Marite, I forgot to comment: I thought the plural of “grapefruit” was “grapefruit.”</p>
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<p>Ah, forgot about that. In that case, “nice grapefruit” would definitely get an individual of the male persuasion whacked by one!</p>
<p>Being male is a persuasion? </p>
<p>I thought it was a lifestyle!!! Uh-oh.</p>
<p>You know, I keep reading the title of this thread and come up with many alternatives to substitute for the <em>ahem</em>. I kinda wonder what the OP had in mind.</p>