Biological Clock Starts Ticking -- For Bachelors Looking for Mates

The Wall Street Journal ^ | NANCY ANNE JEFFREY

[maxwell]

Or you can just go about it the old-fashioned way-- hit the honky-tonks and everybody get good and drunk. Then you won't care who the hell you hook up with.

Livin' the wild life,
Mad Max

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[Steve0113]

I went out with her too, dude

She sure gets around!

[Rev DMV]

OH NO, PLEASE don't resurrect THAT thread again!!!

Sorry missed that one, I'll defer.

[Dan from Michigan]

Not until the generation born in the late 1970s and early 1980s comes of marriageable age, according to demographers. By then, higher birthrates will tip the scales back in men's favor. About 2005, experts say it'll be rich pickings for men who now are in their early 20s.

Well, I'm thinking positive!

[BornOnTheFourth]

Exactly. That is the best way to go. It's amazing how quickly kids become attached. I learned that lesson, certainly don't need to learn it again.

[maxwell]

Make that The Foos-ball and I'm comin' over dude... With a case of Mich... Don't try to stop me...

[BornOnTheFourth]

That's an interesting point. Do you find it to be a turn off when a woman flaunts her single mom status? Do you feel that she's "daddy shopping" and is trying you on for size?

My take on it is that while I would like to find someone that will be as good to my daughter as my step dad was (and still is after 28 years) to me, I know that the primary consideration would be the spousal relationship. Because, like you said, how can a man be a good father to another's child if he doesn't truly love her mom?

I really need to get some work done, eh? But I will be back (she says in her best Terminator voice ;-) TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!

[uglybiker]

Maybe I'm destined to die a bachelor, but I just can't meet women with the morals and values I want my future wife to have. Like the old Ian Hunter song said, "All the good ones are taken."

Here. Lemme scoot over and make room for you in this boat....

It sure would be nice to find someone close to my age who doesn't have a load of baggae that exceeds the towing capacity of my 1-ton Dodge. Yikes!

[FLAMING DEATH]

We need to get you out of Crochester and into a city slightly less depressing.

Why a city? Do as I do, and live out in the middle of nowhere, where nobody cares what you do. I can urinate from my front porch and shoot rifles naked in the yard if I want. Not that I do, or anything.

[BornOnTheFourth]

LOL but true! I might also add "dog check." I dated one guy and the first clue to his personality (or lack thereof) was how he treated my dog! He was on his best behavior around me, but not around my dog. He learned, don't mess with my labs (now I have two)!

[maxwell]

Single-detude ROCKS, dude!

No nagging about the laundry or the dishes or the bills or the porn or the remote control or the radio station or the clothes or Who Was Using That Tone Of Voice or the month-old bath-tub scum or the beer bottles and cigarette ash all over the floor or NOTHIN'!

"Honey," said a husband to his wife, "I invited a friend home for supper."

"What? Are you crazy? The house is a mess, I haven't been shopping, all the dishes are dirty, and I don't feel like cooking a fancy meal!"

"I know all that."

"Then why did you invite a friend for supper?"

"Because the poor fool's thinking about getting married."

[Orangedog]

What they dont understand is that few men are interested in raising another's child without having suffiecient time to fall in love with the mother first.

I've seen too much of "Instant family; just add Dad." Maybe it's just me, but I have a hard time sleeping if I'm spending more time raising someone elses kid than I'm allowed to spend raising my own.

[uglybiker]

I think my last date turned gay during our last dinner.

I need to hang out on The Guild threads more.;-)

[LN2Campy]

How dare you attempt to escape from our cultural chamber of sexual torture!

about the most succinct summation of he typical American "cougar" attitude I have ever read.

I'd watch out for those Russian gals, though, not a few of them have done a tour of duty or two in the "hard currency hotels", and NOT as desk clerks...

[Benson_Carter]

"...live out in the middle of nowhere, where nobody cares what you do. I can urinate from my front porch and shoot rifles naked in the yard if I want."

single FReeper party at FLAMING DEATH's house!!!! I'll bring the booze!