For the Ladies Only

[NMarti]

Here's a good laugh to start your day. Now guys - this is NOT for you! I had to do two pictures to get it large enough to read. Warning: I'm not responsible for screen splatter.



http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1wcdK4oRQoVcz95t8LC0qnl2xWsLRo1_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1wcdK4oRQoVcz95t8LC0qnl2xWsLRo1)
http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1It3MUlAqV7WbokWeCoI6wmuJ_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1It3MUlAqV7WbokWeCoI6wmuJ)

[Robyn]

WONDERFUL STUFF NANCY.:D :D

Did this world really exist........and only 50 years ago!!

But what a laugh..........although my DH still has one foot in the 50s......or would have if he could. :D

Where did you dig that up from?

[NMarti]

Robyn
Isn't that a riot? My daughter sent it to me. The sad thing is I DO remember when women were expected to be that way. My grandmother and mother would always get up at the crack of dawn and prepare a full course breakfast and pack a very detailed lunch, often times cooking something special that morning in addition to breakfast to put in there. All housework had to be done before they got home. My grandmother would never dream of running a vacuum cleaner around my grandfather. She would always ask permission to paint a room in "his house" or even to plant a flower in "his yard". If he didn't like it - it didn't happen. What a world that would have been.:eek:

[troush]

How unrealistic is that?!?! I wonder how many men still have that expectation of their wives?

-Trish

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Oh my ... I'm not sure that many women ever followed all those "rules" Well not from where I come from :)

An interesting point is that it doesn't say you can't spend all day playing with Elements :)

Wendy

[Norm F]

Ah, yes! I am also yearning for the "good old days." :)

Seriously, though, that is absolutely hilarious! The men really had 'er made back them, didn't they? I especially like, "you have no right to question him."

[virgo1]

I'd like to add my 5 cents but keep getting logged out.:confused:
Eva;)

[AngelicKim]

That is pretty funny even though my Dad pretty much thought that way and my Mom put up with it (and I'm talking in the 70's, not 1955). She had dinner ready every day at the same time and met him at the door with a kiss and hug every day. In the 80's she got a little more liberal as my brothers and I were all either out of school or in High School.

Nancy, hope I didn't upset you or offend you the other day with my post on Auggie. If I did, I am very sorry.

[ktnoon60]

Nancy, that is just to funny. I bet that article was written by a man, wishful thinking on his part.

Terry

[kimi_boo]

just glad I wasn't even born yet! :eek:

[NRiceDesigns]

That's hilarious Nancy. How times have changed... they wouldn't tell a heterosexual to do #3 in this generation. ;)

[Wendy]

Nita ...

Now that comment did cause coffee spray :eek: :D :D :D

Wendy

[NMarti]

Kim
No you didn't upset me. I didn't even see it. I haven't been able to get on a lot lately because the forum seems to be having issues and then my ISP and then the forum - back and forth. I had to go back through your posts and find it. I don't know why it's coming up black unless you clicked on a picture in a thread. Is that's the case it has probably expired from pixentral since it gets deleted if it has not been viewed in 30 days. There is a picture of him in my gallery. Your Babe is a beauty. I really miss that darn dog. :(

Nita
That's funny!

[Jan Ruthig]

Hi ...


An interesting point is that it doesn't say you can't spend all day playing with Elements :)

Wendy

Wendy! You are so right!! Brilliant thinking!!!! :p

[Jodi Frye]

Remember, this is the same year Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat... which was already at the back of the bus...to a white man.

You don't have to be a black woman to appreciate what she had done to enforce the 'voice' of a woman.....she opened 'many' doors with what she had done....perhaps even the gates of hell :twisted: Seriously tho..no freekin' way in h-e-double hockey sticks would I have been one to follow those rules.....which are soooooooooo funny....how pathetic was that ?

I want to add..' and Ladies, don't forget to fake those orgasms...your husband needs to feel as though he is a real man ' :D

[NMarti]

Jodi
:eek: :D :D :D

[jazzfisher]

Thank god I'm not married!!!!:D

[mom to 4]

Ok, Jodi, I need a new monitor now.....mine is covered with coffee:eek: :D :D . That comment was too funny!

I don't quite remember my mother being that dutiful (sp) a wife, and she was a wife and stay at home mom in the 50's! Maybe that was just a male dominated media trying to get us all to conform!!!! Remember the Stepford Wives (I'm talking the original here girls!) Every so often my husband does comment that my mother did let my father do everything (almost) that he wanted.....Daddy had lots of toys! My DH says "Oh, why couldn't I have married someone like Joe Knight's wife" Ha, Ha. Everytime he has me help him move furniture, I reply, "Ya know, Joe Knight's wife never moved a stick of furniture!" So there!

Thanks for the chuckle Nancy! and Jodi.....I'll be in touch about that new monitor I now need:D !

[AngelicKim]

I'm thankful it isn't 1955 or we wouldn't have our computers and the internet or Photoshop to be be sharing all this and Jodi's advice, :eek: :D :twisted:

[GaryK]

You gals are just lucky we let you on our computers. :D:D


http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/Flee.gif

[jazzfisher]

Gary,
Thems fighting words.......you better keep on runnin":D

[AngelicKim]

Gary, ditto what Sherry said.

[Byron Gale]

I thought to check this for Urban Legend status at Snopes.com...

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.htm

[AngelicKim]

Byron, that is too funny, it shows the same cartoon Nancy posted. I also thought the status was funny, 'undetermined". I check things on Snopes all the time and that is the first I have seen that, its usually "hoax" or "true".

[mom to 4]

They both kind of remind me of the little booklet my mother gave me in the
60's....you know when she was supposed to tell me about the changes about to take place in my body..... Well I always laugh..... it was called "Growing up and liking it" :eek: :eek: How funny is that. It was about 5 pages long.....and the girls were happy and "gay" in their one piece bathing suits and .....bathing caps or pony tails.......I swear the booklet had to have been saved from when she was 12 or so back in the 30's!!!

Ok, so do you think that little blurb got rid of the guys lurking on this thread????:D

[jazzfisher]

Colleen,
Now that you mention that, I remember a booklet like that too!

[mom to 4]

I thought my Mom had the only one left! Oh, I should see if she still has it and photgraph the front cover! Too funny!

[AngelicKim]

My Mom had soemthing like that too.

I think as lond as this says "Ladies Only" the nosey men will still be curious. They just never remember the phase "curiousity killed the Cat". ;)

[kayser]

Yep, the boys are definitely gone now!

[Bayla]

Nancy,

That article was priceless...I especially liked the suggestion to 'put a ribbon in your hair' - that had my screen liberally splattered:)

Reminds me of a leatherbound set of 12 books my father was given when he and my mother got married in 1950...each book covered a different aspect of life from the most practical to more emotional subjects, in the format of questions and answers. I always used to fall about laughing over the question about what to do with a teenaged boy who displayed an inordinate amount of interest in the opposite sex.....the answer (accompanied by a black & white print)...encourage him to play tennis!!! I still get a fit of the giggles every time I drive past the local park and see a group of macho 14 yr old boys swinging their tennis racquets!

Bayla

[mhughes]

Oh, this is all too funny!

However... I remember my mother telling me that when I got married to ALWAYS take a nap every afternoon and NEVER learn how to mow the lawn.

Good advice; which I followed.

Mary

[Pauline]

Well I leave the forum alone for a day and this is what I come back to?
Mowing the lawn..........never tried it. Lived here almost 20 years and figure if I give that lawn mower one try it will be my job. My husband is now glad that we have 3 teens and pays them to do it.

If I did all these things listed that I should I believe my husband would think I was having an affair or guilty of something!!

One thing I do miss is the fact that stay at home Mom's like myself seem to be considered as 'lucky' and spend the day doing 'nothing'. Those kinds of comments I resent. Value is only put on those that work for a living outside the home and get a pay check for what they do.

In this house, I am the Queen. My hubby makes all the decisions at work and doesn't want to be bothered at home. That's my JOB!

[Robyn]

Oh Bayla..........I love the tennis advice......just priceless! :D

Mary......I reckon I could count on two hands the number of times DH has mowed the lawn in over 41 years of marriage. We have quite a steep block and it's really hard yakka (Aust. for hard work) especially on hot days..............so I hope he'll forgive me when he gets home and I'm not looking refreshed with my hair ribbon in place and a cool drink in hand for him. :D

And Pauline...........if he offered to cut the lawns I would probably think he was guilty of something.........like wanting to buy ANOTHER car for instance!! You can bet your life there would be some reason for it.

[AngelicKim]

I just got this in an e-mail. Just sort of fits in this thread.

If you love something, set it free.

If it comes back, it was and always will be yours.

If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

If it just sits in your living room and messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money and never behaves as if you actually set it free in the first place -- you either married it or gave birth to it!

[mom to 4]

Kim:

I seem to remember a little different take on that:

If you love something, set it free,
if it comes back it is yours forever,
if it doesn't ....... track it down and kill it!

not so politically correct today, but 30 years ago you could say that!!!

[NRiceDesigns]

One thing I do miss is the fact that stay at home Mom's like myself seem to be considered as 'lucky' and spend the day doing 'nothing'. Those kinds of comments I resent. Value is only put on those that work for a living outside the home and get a pay check for what they do.

Pauline I just rec'd this today - this one's for you girl!

CHILD ACTIVATED ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER

Recently, I was diagnosed with C. A. A. D. D. Child Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide to do the laundry. As I start toward the laundry room, I notice that there are cheerios all over the floor and my car keys are in the cereal bowl.

I decide to pick up the cheerios before I do the laundry. I lay my car keys down on the counter, put the cheerios in the trash can under the counter, and notice that the trash can is full. So, I decide to take out the trash.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left, my extra checks are in my desk in the office/playroom, so I go to my desk where I find a sippy cup full of juice.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I decide I should put the sippy cup in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the sippy cup a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye -- they need to be watered.

I set the sippy cup on the counter, and I discover baby wipes that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back in the bathroom, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the wipes back down, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote, one of the kids left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that after school when they go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote as they fight over who lost it, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down, get some paper towels and wipe up the spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day: the laundry isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm cup of juice sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find the wipes, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.

Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming.

[mel]

Great one Nita!!!!! :D ;)

Thanks for posting that.......I knew the problem wasn't me :D :D

[mel]

Nancy that post is just hilarious!!

What a life that would have been.....I mean the lack of 'having a life' :eek:

Like Wendy said......it never said anything about elements :D :D

[Robyn]

Great post Nita! :D

[karen donnybrook]

It has taken me 10 minutes to read this post (and the website) and now I have tears of laughter running down my cheeks :D

Karen

[Pauline]

Nita, thank goodness my life isn't quite that hectic anymore. We've lived here close to 20 years to it was easy to walk through the kitchen and living room with my eyes closed this morning and sit right down to the computer. :D The kids are all teens so they will be in bed until noon if I let them, so I get some peace. The down side is that I have to either clean up the mess myself or put up with it for half the day! Well we have company coming today so I guess I will get them up at the unGodly hour of 10 to clean! :twisted:

[ceejay3744]

After being married most of my life, I remind my husband that if I'd killed him the first time he really p***ed me off, I'd be out of prison already. I hafta keep him in line, you know.

[NMarti]

Carol :eek:
well....you probably would have been out a long time ago. :D :D

[MarieBoyer]

Very, very funny thread girls!!!!!

Glad I found it. And I laughed out loud at Jodi's little throw-in there.