Posted on 05/13/2014 10:37:28 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The advice books written around the turn of the 20th century to teach women to make men happy are plentiful. Advice books in the same vein for men are rare.
But in 1883, a Methodist minister named George W. Hudson wrote one such "advice for men" book—The Marriage Guide for Young Men: A Manual of Courtship and Marriage. It was self-published, perhaps due to perceived lack of interest in marriage manuals for men. Or maybe because traditional publishers couldn’t handle all the hard-core truth the Reverend was going to throw down.
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“If You Want To Be Happy
JIMMY SOUL
If You Want To Be Happy (for The Rest Of Your Life) Lyrics
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
A pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall.
As soon as he marries her, then she starts
To do the things that will break his heart,
But if you make an ugly woman your wife,
You’ll be happy for the rest of your life,
An ugly woman cooks her meals on time,
She’ll always give you peace of mind.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
Don’t let your friends say
You have no taste,
Go ahead and marry anyway,
Though her face is ugly,
Her eyes don’t match,
Take it from me she’s a better catch.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
Say man.
Hey baby.
I saw your wife the other day.
Yeah?
Yeah, she’s ugly.
Man, she’s ugly but she sure can cook, baby.
Yeah? Alright...
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
Bluegrass song:
Always marry an ugly girl
They’re the best kind,
They’ll never, ever leave you
and if they do, you won’t mind
Another:
Never marry an old man
here’s the reason why
His lips are all tobacco stained
and he never zips his fly
I remember an Abbott and Costello skit:
Costello: When I get married, I’m going to marry an ugly girl
Abbott: Why?
Costello: If I marry a pretty girl, she might leave me
Abbott: But an ugly girl might leave you too
Costello: Yeah, but who cares?
So you are saying pick one from some place so far away she has never heard of Oprah?
and then
there are the married men with children
who have to go off with some adulteress who wants what the wife has
and leave grief and destruction behind them
Like Laurel and Hardy.. They were timeless!
Once I came across an outdoor social at a retirement home. There were, I estimate, 50 to 60 in attendance. I counted seven men.
This is why I found this from the book to be of note: “A man should never marry a woman who is his senior. You will have no inclination, I trust, to do anything of the kind.”
Following that advice, as men still do, is the reason that there were so many women at the retirement home outing. If you marry a woman the same age, or worse yet, considerably younger than you, you are almost guaranteeing that she will be a widow one day since men tend to die before women.
Yes, I married a woman several years older than myself. We, therefore likely will die around the same time. I consider that to be a good thing.
The language on the other hand is very funny.
The cockpit. DUH!
And what’s he using for the controls?
The joystick. Double DUH!
My new favorite word.. scrofulous.
Have you ever heard the term “you are so full of s@$t your eyes are brown” :-)
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Mrs. Fierro would've been doomed.
She's good with the laundry, tho
I don’t think it’s right to claim all American women are like this. Many, quite possibly most, but not all by any means.
Yep. ;^)
Couldn’t be easier - simply be six feet tall, ruggedly handsome, dress to the nines in tailored clothing, drive a European sports car, and have a bank full of money.
Being an international secret agent with a Scottish accent doesn’t hurt, either.
“So that eliminates American women. “
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So the women from Russia,England,France,Germany,Sweden,Italy and other European countries are okay?
That’s certainly nice to hear.
That’s all?
Russia, generally yes - the other countries, you still have judges that practically dare women to divorce, so no.
“I don’t think it’s right to claim all American women are like this. Many, quite possibly most, but not all by any means.”
Concur...there are exceptions, just as there are immigrant women looking for Green Cards. It’s a probability game - 50% chance with an American, 90% chance with an import, assuming raised in a traditional way (i.e., to respect men).
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