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On this kid's (terrific) blog, I read this brief anecdote shared by Larry King with Esquire recently. King says:
I once asked Stephen Hawking, the smartest guy in the world, what he didn’t understand. He said, "Women."
Great punchline.
My only objection here is that Stephen Hawking didn't say that. He typed it. His text to speech synthesizer said it.
Relatedly, this is my all time favorite photo of Larry King.
After an obligatory "reader beware of the source" disclaimer, according to a survey of their new members, AshleyMadison.com, a dating site for marrieds looking for some side action, said female teachers and male doctors were ranked as the number one occupation. Although as one MeFite astutely pointed out:
This doesn't show who cheats, it shows what professions people put down in their profile on this dating/cheating website. "Ladies, call me, I'm a doctor!"
My occupation is listed as astronaut.
Before marrying Emma Wedgwood in 1839, Charles Darwin first logically listed a pros and cons list of marriage.
Using his trademark rationality, Darwin made two columns: “Marry” and “Not Marry.”In the ”Marry” column, he entered things like: “Home and someone to take care of house—Charms of music and female chit-chat. These things good for one’s health.” In the “Not Marry” column was: “Freedom to go where one liked—Choice of Society and little of it. Conversations of clever men at clubs. Not forced to visit relatives, and to bend to every little trifle.”
Follow up to the previous entry, as Boing Boing highlighted, this particular page is so remarkable it needed its own entry.
A friend of mine recently received this insane message on Facebook that was apparently mass sent by this girl who appears to be mad at a guy to say the least. Enjoy.
ESPN's Bill Simmons exhuastively lists memorable bromances:
The original bromance was Lewis and Clark. I'd break down the others like this: Costanza and Seinfeld (funniest); Norm and Cliff (second funniest); Diggler and Rothchild (third funniest); Borat and Azamat (grossest); O.J. and A.C. (most controversial); the Rat Pack (most influential); Kimmel and Carolla (drunkest); Puffy and Biggie after Biggie died (most shameless); Flintstone and Rubble (best animated)...
Read rest here.
Swiss gigolo Helg Sgarbi, a 44-year-old former investment banker, received a 6 year prison term after pleading guilty to fraud, attempted fraud and attempted blackmail. Until his arrest, he had exhorted $12.5 million from four women, including BMW heiress and the richest woman in Germany, Susanne Klatten who eventually went to the authorities after having paid Sgarbi $8.8 million.
In her witness statement to prosecutors, Ms. Klattten said that Mr. Sgarbi, whom she had met in July 2007 at an Austrian spa resort, was “charming, attentive, and at the same time he seemed very sad.”
“That stirred a feeling in me that we had something in common,” she said, according to the B.B.C. account. Mr. Sgarbi told her and the other women he was a “special Swiss representative in crisis zones,” to which he attributed his frequent, sudden absences.
And by crisis zones he meant old, lonely, rich women's jj's. Hi-ho!
A passionate love letter sent around 1528 by King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn five years before she became Queen is being publicly displayed for the first time at British Library in late April.
It speaks of the king's "unchangeable intention" to marry her and marks a turning point in their relationship.
Before then, Anne had held out – aware of Henry's womanising reputation – and had refused any premarital sexual relations.
It reads: "The demonstrations of your affection are such, and the beautiful words of your letter are so cordially phrased, that they really oblige me to honour, love, and serve you for ever....
"For my part, I will outdo you, if this be possible, rather than reciprocate, in loyalty of heart and my desire to please you.
"Beseeching you also that if I have in any way offended you, you will give me the same absolution for which you ask, assuring you that henceforth my heart will be dedicated to you alone, and wishing greatly that my body was so too."
In 1536, he had her beheaded at the Tower of London and subsequently married four other women.
Jerk.
[Thanks Mun!]
A recently published study by David Atkins at the University of Washington has noted that infidelity has increased among young married couples where "between 1991 and 2006, the numbers of unfaithful wives under 30 increased by 20% and husbands by a whopping 45%."
One explanation for this trend is the higher median age of marriage, which leaves people more time in their premarital relationships to essentially pick up bad habits, such as cheating from one relationship to another. Experiencing a couple break ups of long term relationships also may dilute the repercussions of marital infidelity. In addition, people are less likely nowadays to give up their social network of friends of the same and opposite gender once they are married unlike among the older generation.
Even friendships with members of the same sex generally used to fall by the wayside when people got married or, again, change in scale or importance. Ms. Sollee, who is in her 60s, recalls her own generation's attitude toward them: "The idea that these friendships would take any priority over your husband was unheard of." But she cites a number of 20- and 30-something women she knows who still have "girls' nights out" at bars and even go on vacation with their friends and without their husbands.
Read more here.
Ginger Anyhow embroidered a series of 20 text messages she received that chronicles a relationship from February 2006 to April 2007. The final text ends on an open ended note that left me wondering and guessing. The blend of kitsch and technology here is oddly compelling for our inner voyeur.
I like that the reception and battery bars are stitched in as well.
[Via]
Me: And did she know about you two...? Bob: Yea! I mean it was just like one date, but what's great about this girl is that she already knew about my past [hook-ups] prior to us getting together-
Me: So you don't have to hide anything?
Bob: Exactly.
Me: Well, that's awesome, man. And you like her?
Bob: Yea.
Me: Just don't fuck it up by fucking her sister.
Bob: Yea.
Bob: She doesn't have a sister.
*Names changed to protect identity.
My roommate Kate shared this brilliantly hysterical poem titled "While Cuddling Softly" written by one of her guy friends, Cosmo. It's best appreciated if you read it out loud.
While cuddling softly in her bed, "I hook up more with girls," she said. I thought this great at first, but now It sets me ill at ease somehow. Though most would say I'm more the man To win where others scarce began, If women set her heart awhirl, Should this not make me more the girl?
Should this...not...make..me...more the girl? HAHAHA!
I strong feel this poem is very repost, reblog, retwitter worthy.
Haha.
Oh, if it was only this easy.
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