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So Teddy’s making fun of Andy Pugno, Courageous Defender Of Marriage, for comparing his client to prison, but I think APCDOM has a perfectly valid point.
Consider the overwhelming linguistic evidence: Wives are often referred to as "the old ball & chain"; the Spanish word for "wife" is the same as the word for "handcuffs"; and the time-honored tradition of the bachelor party is often viewed as a celebration of a man’s last day of freedom.
Not only that, but the structural similarities are quite remarkable! Both marriage and prison are hierarchical, impregnable institutions that protect society from devolving into sheer animal chaos, and fundamentalists don’t want to see gay people in either one of them.
Well, okay, no analogy’s perfect…
(Wait, what does "impregnable" mean again?)
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Hey Eli!
Hey egreg!
So in Pugno world, is it the husband or the wife who gets to be the warden?
My guess would be the husband since that would be in line with the patriarchal aspects of the fundamentalists.
Yeah, I was drawing the parallels from a right-wing perspective. I actually held back some stuff so I wouldn’t totally sound like some kind of bitter marriage-hater.
WAAA!!!
I love that song!
: )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyqbckE9kIU
While you might not see a lot of married people behind bars, you can find quite a few leaning on them.
Meeting their future ex-spouses.
Wow! — this Seminal place has really gone downhill.
When did they start letting everyone in?
Next thing, TheKenoshaKid will show up and figure out how to post a diary, and then all bets are off.
Someone had to set you straight, Teddy. Er, so to speak.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Hey, anything to keep Pugno in the headlines at FDL is great.
Lotsa stinkeye my way today.
w00t!
Bravo, Teddy! First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they give you the stinkeye, then you win.
Or something.
Hey to those stinkeye-ers? Get Suz to give them the LQQK.
The Look.
Namaste SD !
Namaste, Petro. ‘zup?
Teddy !
Years after the Libby trial, FDL is still showing the MSM how reporting is actually done.
Bwahahaha … Eli !
Petro!
Anythin’ new and exciting going on in your part of the World ? *g*
Well… no, not really. Surprised and happy about the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets, tho.
Let’s see if they can go into Indy and slay the Peytons … I’m actually hoping they do.
Is it time for pitchers and catchers to report yet? No? Damn.
Hey! You got me and Kelly here in this thread. That’s about the best pitcher and catcher on the Lake.
I think.
heh Shows where my head’s at.
Heh. Especially funny on this thread!
It’ll be tough, but if Sanchez and the D are hitting on all cylinders (and Braylon catches the damn ball), I think it’s doable.
>:(
LMFAO !!!
Kenosha, you come over and sit by me. I’ll teach you all about diaries.
LOL … Egregious !
Man, I love this place !
TKK!
Time to post a seminal diary, dude.
Since you’re hanging out here for the moment Teddy, just another THANK YOU!
Your coverage of the trial and care you show has just been magnificent dahling!
[unintelligible yet clearly angry rant]
Smooches Teddy!
“For every man who sees a woman as a sex-object, there is a woman who sees a man as a meal ticket.” Gosh, based on new data, that may not be accurate anymore. Point is, for every negative characterization there is of a wife, there is one for a husband. Indeed, for almost twenty years, husbands have been portrayed in advertising as the idiot.
My boss is palsy-walsy with one of the editorial board of the St Pete Times and was told that the paper’s target demo was 60yo white women, so the husband as idiot fits right in.
That’s mostly for household products, though, isn’t it? Like a man doesn’t know that FiberFood has 6 grams of protein and only 120 calories per serving or something. It’s not like advertisers insinuate that men are so stupid that they can’t read or write like a dumb blonde.
Also, I’ll add that the vast majority of men don’t care about grams of protein or calories, so they are very ignorant of those sorts of things.
Need to spend more time in front of the tv; that men are idiots is far more wide-spread than how you are framing it. Indeed, look at the comics; men are far more the victims of domestic violence.
My .02′s worth:
I was at the California State Prison – Solano today at shift change (2p.m. pacific), and saw scads of men and women in green and medical staff of both genders, going into the facility, so Andy’s wrong on that count.
I recall Andy from our shared law school classes (McGeorge 2000)and can attest that he was a Federalist conservative dweeb, and hasn’t changed a bit. Despite all his shortcomings, I predict that he will continue to be an up and coming conservative legal shill/hack along the same lines as a Ken Starr.
Please, please, prove me wrong Judge Walker.
I could look at that picture 100 times and laugh every single time.
Heh. I was waiting for someone else to do it.
Chicken. *g*
Hey wait! I thought we were “parrots”!
Know what a “Parrothead” is?
Since I have had a few margaritas in my day, I think I do
Damn, thought I was gonna getcha.
If you knew how many times I’ve played “Margaritaville” in bands at wedding receptions you’d feel sorry for me. *g*
It’s on my “I refuse to play this song” list which includes
“New York New York”
“The Chicken Dance”
“Beer Barrel Polka”
“Feelings”
You get the idea…
Buffet and the boys used to come up to St Pete Beach and play at a little beach bar called The Oyster Shucker on Sunday afternoons. I’ve listened to so much Buffet I can’t stand him any more. Plus he’s gotten all corporate an’ shit.
My dad was a musician, piano, and he had the same kind of list. Clubs, parties, no matter where, there were some songs he wouldn’t play. Do they still have those thick “fake” books?
Yep – there’s still “fake” books around. Mine is so dog eared it’s crazy.
Monsiuer Partridge, your choice of beverage?
It’s been fun boys and girls but I gotta get into my tree. Can’t pull another late school nighter at the Lake or it’ll be my ass that’ll be dragon in the mornin’.
Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.
Namaste
We all have to work with what we’re given. Now, where did those handcuffs get to?