Surprise Blog Entry - Enchanting Words
I will speak, and pay you money, and you will have sex with me.
I have a daily dose of Reuter’s Oddly Enough. This is a series of news articles that do not have the “usual” news. It usually contains things like “People Swim Naked in Freezing Water in Berlin” or “Cash pours in for Student’s $1 Million idea” (both from previous blogs). Well, today the article reads:
Man says “spell” won him harem of 10 wives
TOKYO (Reuters) - A middle-aged Tokyo man found to be living with 10 younger women said he attracted them by reciting an incantation that came to him in a dream.
The 57-year-old man's unusual living arrangements came to light when another woman complained to police that he had threatened her after she refused to join his harem, Kyodo news agency said Wednesday.
"I had a dream that told me I would become attractive to women if I recited a particular incantation," it quoted the man as saying.
A rapid series of weddings and divorces left the man with a large group of ex-wives, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who shared his surname and continued to live with him.
This seems absolutely ludicrous to me. What in the world would make a woman become uncontrollably love struck enough to marry the man and then be OK with living with him and his 9 previous wives? What…What….WHAT? Do you think he said the same thing every time?
Well, I think I have come up with a few.
For QueenSuchandSuch…”Yes Dear”
For LittleMissCantBeWrongEver… “I am a shoe and perfume salesperson”
For QueenCrab… “I am a shoe salesperson…who hunts”
For Still_groovy…”I am a chocolate salesman”
I could go on for days with this. My point (as I almost always have one) is to follow the platinum rule. What is the platinum rule? Well, you probably know the golden rule of “treat others as you would want to be treated.”
But is that really right? What if the other person is a masochist? Do you want to be tied up and whipped? Well, maybe you would…but I wouldn’t. The whip makes marks…feathers on the other hand…um…well…I digress.
Anyway, I tend to follow the platinum rule of “treat others as they want to be treated.” If they want to be whipped, whip them. If they want to marry a shoe and perfume salesperson, and you are an astrophysicist, change occupations. Personally, I changed a lot of my mind set for my wife. I do whatever I can to have her not throw pots at me or duct tape me in a corner.
What would someone have to say to you for you to marry them? Do you believe in the golden or the platinum rule?
I have a daily dose of Reuter’s Oddly Enough. This is a series of news articles that do not have the “usual” news. It usually contains things like “People Swim Naked in Freezing Water in Berlin” or “Cash pours in for Student’s $1 Million idea” (both from previous blogs). Well, today the article reads:
Man says “spell” won him harem of 10 wives
TOKYO (Reuters) - A middle-aged Tokyo man found to be living with 10 younger women said he attracted them by reciting an incantation that came to him in a dream.
The 57-year-old man's unusual living arrangements came to light when another woman complained to police that he had threatened her after she refused to join his harem, Kyodo news agency said Wednesday.
"I had a dream that told me I would become attractive to women if I recited a particular incantation," it quoted the man as saying.
A rapid series of weddings and divorces left the man with a large group of ex-wives, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who shared his surname and continued to live with him.
This seems absolutely ludicrous to me. What in the world would make a woman become uncontrollably love struck enough to marry the man and then be OK with living with him and his 9 previous wives? What…What….WHAT? Do you think he said the same thing every time?
Well, I think I have come up with a few.
For QueenSuchandSuch…”Yes Dear”
For LittleMissCantBeWrongEver… “I am a shoe and perfume salesperson”
For QueenCrab… “I am a shoe salesperson…who hunts”
For Still_groovy…”I am a chocolate salesman”
I could go on for days with this. My point (as I almost always have one) is to follow the platinum rule. What is the platinum rule? Well, you probably know the golden rule of “treat others as you would want to be treated.”
But is that really right? What if the other person is a masochist? Do you want to be tied up and whipped? Well, maybe you would…but I wouldn’t. The whip makes marks…feathers on the other hand…um…well…I digress.
Anyway, I tend to follow the platinum rule of “treat others as they want to be treated.” If they want to be whipped, whip them. If they want to marry a shoe and perfume salesperson, and you are an astrophysicist, change occupations. Personally, I changed a lot of my mind set for my wife. I do whatever I can to have her not throw pots at me or duct tape me in a corner.
What would someone have to say to you for you to marry them? Do you believe in the golden or the platinum rule?
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