My wife was whispering- F.U.! in my ear when I read her this.
Posted by Steve Barba (Member # 431) on :
It gets better-
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Duuuuhhh! Ya gonna let us in on it???
Ooooops! finally kicked in!
[ December 18, 2002, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: Si Allen ]
Posted by Steve Barba (Member # 431) on :
Ok girls- Flame On!
Posted by Ryan E Young (Member # 2325) on :
Man was I born in the wrong era!!!!!!! Did peaple realy beleave that crap?
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
Hey Steve,
I'll buy a copy, can I get it before christmas?
hahahahaha oh man would I be soooooo dead.
[ December 18, 2002, 10:52 PM: Message edited by: Bob Rochon ]
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Now I see what you old geezers mean by "Ahhh... those were the days!"
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Hey...
Whaddaya mean "those WERE the days..."? Ooops, here comes Dana.... Bye.
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
Haw Haw Haw!!! Snort..wheeze..(slapping hand on knee repeatedly) ooooooo boy them are funny ones. . . . . .
*snort* Posted by Jeffrey Vrstal (Member # 2271) on :
One of my wife's friends actually sent that to her in a christmas card TODAY! I about busted a gut! I wondered who the man was that wrote that.
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Jeffery,
I think you will find that the man who wrote that piece is dead.
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
His name is Mudd
Posted by Peter Vasic (Member # 2377) on :
What do you mean 1955 ad ?
That is the latest fashion here in Australia..Its cool , its hip , its Crazy , Man , Crazy !. like what are you hipsters on about, You crazy cats gotta get on with the times...
That lady in that ad, well she looks like the Mom living next door baking Cherry pies, kissing her well groomed Husband as he comes home.
Ahhhh..2002 Australia.
Posted by Peter Vasic (Member # 2377) on :
By the way
regards
Peter
Posted by Stephen Broughton (Member # 2237) on :
Hey Pete, reminds me of a tv ad they used to show here for Castlemaine XXXX lager. Aussie sheep shearers filling a ute up with beer, now this thing is groaning under the weight of tinnies, first bloke looks at his mate and says "Something for the ladies blue" "good idea mate" (shouting at the shopkeeper) "bottle of sweet sherry please mate!" then the utes suspension collapses "guess we overdid it with the sweet sherry blue!"
Posted by Arthur Vanson (Member # 2855) on :
More fuel!:
“Yes: there; wives be such a provoking class of society because, though they be never right, they never be more than half wrong.”
Under The Greenwood Tree Thomas Hardy
Steve, thanks for reminding me of that superb advert, if only they were all that witty.
Arthur
Posted by John Deaton III (Member # 925) on :
There is this guy in town that makes this statement all the time: "A man's wife oughta have his supper on the table, steam coming off of it when he walks in the door." Soon as he starts to say it, I know it's coming and I get out of the way.
Posted by Arvil Shep' Shepherd (Member # 2030) on :
John, I like the one where the guy says......."I am going home to eat Dinner..If it ain't ready......I am going to raise Hell......If it is ready .....I am going to Stub up and not eat a damn bite "
I think they put this inscription on his head stone.he he he he
Shep'
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Sounds just like my house!
After 40 years of marriage I can reveal the secret of how a man can have a happy home in just two words...."Yes, dear".
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
They actually taught this in school back in my Mom's school days. I think they called it homemaking, and only the girls took it. They learned to cook, sew and to keep the kids quiet when Dad got home. I remember flipping through the textbook in amazement. Another rule was to clean up the kids, the house, and freshen up herself (lipstick, hair, etc) an hour before the man got home so that their was a nice calm atmosphere after his hectic day.
(sorry to be repetitive, the first part hadn't loaded when I read the post)
[ December 19, 2002, 10:23 AM: Message edited by: Suelynn Sedor ]
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
quote:Originally posted by John Deaton III: There is this guy in town that makes this statement all the time: "A man's wife oughta have his supper on the table, steam coming off of it when he walks in the door."
Admit it John, it's you that says it, isn't it?
That statement could work both ways.. sure, supper could be there steaming on the table, but it doesn't say anything about "supper" not being a big pile of steaming poo, which is what I think you would get if you told my mom to have supper steaming on the table by the time you got home.
Posted by Penny Baugh (Member # 3275) on :
I've got a news flash for you, there's plenty of good 'ol boys round these parts who still demand and pretty much receive that treatment.
Posted by Richard Doyle (Member # 2919) on :
I think you can still buy that book in a lot of Arab countries I hear it was a best seller in Afghanistan last year
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
1. Put another log on my fire,
A
cook me up some bacon and some beans.
go out to the car and change the tire,
D
wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
(Come on, baby, you can)
D
fill my pipe and then go fetch my slippers,
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and boil me up another pot of tea,
D
Then put another log on my fire, babe,
A D
and come and tell me why you`re leaving me.
I like the part about taking the 15 minute break so you'll be rested when he gets home........wow 15 whole minutes......and the part about not complaining to him for staying out all night. Give me a break!
Posted by Myra Grozinger (Member # 327) on :
OH YES YOU YOUNG ONES, it really was that way. Marabel Morgan wrote a book in the mid sixties "The total Woman" that taught her reading pupils to not only rest up before the Lord and Master came home, but to take off her clothes and wrap herself in Saran Wrap as a teaser and a surprise at the front door for the occasion.
I called the book "The totalled Woman", and refused to buy into stuff like not having even a first name of my own. A signature like Mrs. Hebring Homebacon was just not for me.
All joking aside, this is the sort of thing that started consciousnessraising sessions for women in the very early seventies, and then the women's liberation movement resulted from the women who no longer could tolerate being second class servants on a pedestal.
Having lived it, I just can't find it funny!
I don't want to start anything here except encourage a little thought in a not so jolly direction. The man who came home to the Saran wrapped surprise was under a lot of pressure as well, if you think about it. That we women no longer have to pull stunts like that to be coy and desirable (unless we want to which is a totally different thing) is one example of why the women's liberation movement to me always has equally liberated men. I'm glad that finally and slowly they are beginning to see it.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
I read this to my wife last night. After the first few sentences she said that I could stop anytime if I knew what was good for me.
Myra....Saran wrap? ....I'll have to mention that to Jeanne when I get home tonight.
I remember the 50's and it WAS a lot like that, although at the time I didn't give it much thought - just the way it was. Of course I was a kid at the time, so most of that stuff went over my head.