Posted on 04/25/2006 6:38:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
So this is a problem for you...why? Unlike you, he's not presuming to tell others how to live.
lol. you got me again. yeah, everything's observational humor now, which is amusing, but in a way too easy. back in the day, people had to actually write jokes. they stand up on their own, whereas most "did you ever notice..." type humor depends on the personality of the deliverer. And when that fails, they start throwing in the F bomb as an intensifier to trigger some cheap laughs. Carlin was good at the observational stuff, and I guess Seinfeld, too, but it's overdone. Remember Steven Wright from back in the 80s? I liked him cuz he used actual jokes. He was like a surrealistic Henny Youngman. Anyway, all this is off-topic. So sue me!
If I remember right from my years growing up in Florida, central Fla is not the place to pick up young single women - unless you want single retirees, widows, etc. South Florida (east coast) would be little better. If you want to meet young single women get away from the retirement hotspots!
That's because it's all about them and what their infantile wants.
Right, obviously anyone who doesn't find a suitable mate is an immature jerk. Yeah, that's it. How's the view up there on that high horse of yours?
Good observations. Continuing the off-topic line, it also used to be true that comics were often self-deprecating and the butt of their own jokes, like Bob Hope or Jack Benny or Rodney Dangerfield. I don't think that happens much anymore.
Seinfeld gives Alan King a lot of credit as an influence on his observational humor, although I think Seinfeld is much funnier than King ever was. I saw Seinfeld playing a small club in LA about 7 or 8 years ago, and he was brilliant, noticeably in his handling of a couple of drunks who tried to become part of his act.
Remember this one? "My parents are in the iron and steel business. My mother irons, and my father steals." Bahd a bing.
hahaha!!!
Now that was funny!
But thanks for playing.
A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started."
Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!"
Courtesy of Henny Youngman. He had a million of them!
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Those are great!
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Those are great!
Pretty soon the retirement scene will be the most promising market for these men.
Of course they are. You notice that the article did not mention the easy availability of easy available women as a factor in men not getting married.
Another factor is that it seems to take men and women much longer to mature then it used to. Is it just me or does it seem that people in there 20's & 30's are stuck in a highschool mode of life? It also does not help that they also expect to have everything early on without any struggle at all. Big house, new car, great salary they want it now. No sense of working for a better life with the one you love. No sense of sharing good times and bad.
Nope just a shrewd calculation of balance sheets and what's in it for me. Too bad cause marriage is great.
Sure am glad I am celebrating 25 years of marriage today. I would hate to be part of the singles scene.
A friend of my son's told me she wanted to marry a doctor cause of the money they make. I told her forget that, marry a plumber. Good money and I have yet to hear of a plumber having to carry malpractice insurance. Plus when a plumber gets a call at 2 AM he gets to charge overtime.
Course if she was really smart she would become a plumber.
Why buy a cow when the milk is sour?
My theory is that we have created a mythology about ideal love. Many people have bought into it. If they dont find that ideal, they wont marry.
Must admit the statistics confused me (lies, damn lies and statistics!), but divorced and widowed women would be available, not just "never married". Of course you must pare the list down if you don't want step children, but by middle age the kids are on their way out of the nest anyway.
And I agree with the posters about Central FL. Give me Palm Beach county anytime, Delray, Boynton Beach, West Palm...
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