Whaddaya mean "those WERE the days..."? Ooops, here comes Dana.... Bye.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6465 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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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.
-------------------- Jeff Vrstal Main Street Signs 157 E. Main Street Evansville, WI 53536 1-608-882-0322 Posts: 670 | From: Evansville, Wisconsin | Registered: Sep 2001
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I think you will find that the man who wrote that piece is dead.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
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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.
-------------------- Peter Artistic Design Solutions Adelaide, Australia artisticdesign@bigpond.com Posts: 24 | From: Adelaide ,Australia | Registered: Oct 2001
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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!"
-------------------- Steve Broughton Alpha Grafix Signs Lowfields Road Benington, Boston Lincolnshire, England Posts: 315 | From: Boston, Lincolnshire, England | Registered: Aug 2001
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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.
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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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
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-------------------- Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep' -------- " Those who dance are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music " Posts: 1281 | From: Mt Airy NC | Registered: Mar 2001
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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.
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.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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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!
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7409 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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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.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
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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.
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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