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Idaho Man Seeks Wife
Sounds like this guy knew exactly what he was looking for. From the Albuquerque Journal - Nov 24, 1937
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 09, 2014 -
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Category: Wives, 1930s
Shocking Peas
A recent Daily Mail article about a woman who is suing her lawyer for failing to explain to her that "finalising her divorce would terminate her marriage" contains another little nugget of weirdness toward the end:Just one week after getting married, a woman in Kuwait has filed for divorce after discovering her husband prefers to use bread, rather than a fork, to eat peas. Traumatised by the 'shocking sight', she said she could no longer live with him, owing to his lack of etiquette.
At least he doesn't use his fingers. That would be really barbaric.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 16, 2014 -
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Category: Food, Wives
Conjugal Duels
From Charles Harper, Revolted Woman: Past, Present, and to Come (1894):In Germany, during mediaeval times, domestic differences were settled by judicial duels between man and wife, and a regular code for their proper conduct was observed. 'The woman must be so prepared,' so the instructions run, 'that a sleeve of her chemise extend a small ell beyond her hand like a little sack: there indeed is put a stone weighing iii pounds; and she has nothing else but her chemise, and that is bound together between the legs with a lace. Then the man makes himself ready in the pit over against his wife. He is buried therein up to the girdle, and one hand is bound at the elbow to the side.'
The images of the conjugal duelists come from Hans Talhoffer's Fechtbuch, 1467 (plates 242-250). [Via Wondermark]
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 04, 2013 -
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Category: History, Husbands, Wives, Marriage
English Professor Defends Lazy Wives
What about lazy husbands?
The Titonka Topic - April 8, 1954
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 30, 2013 -
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Category: Wives, 1950s
Don’t kill your wife with work
A 1936 advertising appeal to householders in Willesden, Middlesex, England. [source: Newsweek - Apr 11, 1936]
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 05, 2013 -
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Category: Advertising, Wives, 1930s
A May-December Romance
Back in 1955, it caused some controversy when Count William Aubrey Tealdi married Princess Lidia Maria Antonia Carraciolo di Torella, the reason being that he was 74 and she was 14. They had to get a special papal dispensation to allow the marriage. Predictably, he was rich, while her family (though Italian royalty) had fallen on hard times. [google news]
But the strange thing is that despite the huge difference in age, the marriage proved to be a success. A follow-up story that ran in papers in 1966, when she was 25 and he was 85, reported that the couple had three children by that time, and he was hoping to have more. She declared herself to be "the happiest woman in the world."
I don't know when Count Tealdi died, but it's quite likely she's still alive. After all, she'd only be in her early seventies — not yet the age the Count was when he married her!
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 18, 2013 -
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Category: Elderly, Husbands, Wives, 1950s
Sharia Standup
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 14, 2012 -
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Category: Humor, Religion, Wives
Who’s Right?
This is more agonizing and excruciating than Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 06, 2012 -
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Category: Annoying Things, PSA’s, Husbands, Wives, 1950s
The Girls of Murder City
Why the video of an old song in this post? It's the tune that one of the murderesses played and danced to, over the corpse of her victim!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 18, 2010 -
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Category: Crime, Feminism, Music, Regionalism, Wives, Books, 1920s
The Corpse Vanishes
This film without comment track was a total hoot! I imagine the MST3K version is even greater. Part 1 begins here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 18, 2010 -
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Category: Death, Medicine, Movies, Wives, 1940s
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