Excuse you. I just happen to be orthographically-challenged, thank you very much.
I think I'll go cry in my soup, now.
2.28.2002
posted by Anonymous @ 5:42:00 PM
2.27.2002
Joe wins the "Relevant Comment Award" for the month.
posted by Anonymous @ 9:54:00 PM
Well, the way to keep it from being messy upon seperation is marriage. Divorce law makes dividing property and custody (relatively) simple and sets it out all nice and legally. In a co-habitation relationship, such things can get messy, even during the relationship. (There is discrimination against un-married couples, too, I'd wager.)
(It's funny. My parents closed the deal on our house while they were engaged, meaning that the first transfer of title or dead or whatever reads "Anne Kelleher and Ray Boedecker, co-inhabitants." But when they got married - I guess in order to make it all legally clean - they had to get another one reading "Anne Kelleher and Ray Boedecker, married" or something like that. Go figure.)
It's interesting that teenage marriages fail more often than marriages between older people. I mean, we can all chuckle at the stupidity and brashness of teenagers, but I wonder why that is, really?
(It's got to be depressing to graduate high school, marry your high school sweetheart and buckle down to start a family. There's so much youth left that you just, well, waste. Not to mention potential for continued learning. But I guess I have a limited perspective on such things; I have biases that have been programmed into me by my socioeconomic status and my upbringing.)
(It's funny. My parents closed the deal on our house while they were engaged, meaning that the first transfer of title or dead or whatever reads "Anne Kelleher and Ray Boedecker, co-inhabitants." But when they got married - I guess in order to make it all legally clean - they had to get another one reading "Anne Kelleher and Ray Boedecker, married" or something like that. Go figure.)
It's interesting that teenage marriages fail more often than marriages between older people. I mean, we can all chuckle at the stupidity and brashness of teenagers, but I wonder why that is, really?
(It's got to be depressing to graduate high school, marry your high school sweetheart and buckle down to start a family. There's so much youth left that you just, well, waste. Not to mention potential for continued learning. But I guess I have a limited perspective on such things; I have biases that have been programmed into me by my socioeconomic status and my upbringing.)
posted by Anonymous @ 5:36:00 PM
2.25.2002
Then again, marriage is what you make of it, I suppose.
posted by Anonymous @ 9:36:00 PM
Being a hopless romantic, all that "enternal love" stuff is sort of attractive. But also being an occasional cynic, I know that one out of two marriages fail. So, I'm sort of torn.
posted by Anonymous @ 9:33:00 PM
My question is, what exactly is so special, not counting religiousity (which I don't care about, no offense to anyone), about the institution of marriage? I mean, it's supposedly about committing to life-long monogamy and eternal love, but we all know that that isn't exactly always the case. I suppose all the legal benefits it gives you are nice. But long-term cohabitation seems just dandy to me.
posted by Anonymous @ 9:24:00 PM
For once, I whole-heartedly agree with Malex.
posted by Anonymous @ 8:54:00 PM
Actually, that would be Addie Bundren from As I Lay Dying.
posted by Anonymous @ 7:43:00 PM
Since we haven't had any real dicussions in Bivalvia in a long time, I think I'll start one.
What are your opinions on marriage? Do you think it's a sacrosanct institution that should be limited only to a man and a woman? Do you think it should be extended to same-sex couples? Do you think that it's just generally overrated? Do you think that it's losing its integrity with the rise in divorce over the past half-century? Do you think that it's absolutely vital to be in marriage before sex can be had?
Basically, marriage, marriage, marriage. Here's a question for speculation: Which member(s) of Bivalvia are the most likely to be married before the Class of 2002's 10-year reunion? Least likely? Most likely to be involved in an adulterous relationship with a member of the clergy? (Whoops. Call that a "Faulknerian Slip.")
Anyway, I'm off to do other, more important things.
What are your opinions on marriage? Do you think it's a sacrosanct institution that should be limited only to a man and a woman? Do you think it should be extended to same-sex couples? Do you think that it's just generally overrated? Do you think that it's losing its integrity with the rise in divorce over the past half-century? Do you think that it's absolutely vital to be in marriage before sex can be had?
Basically, marriage, marriage, marriage. Here's a question for speculation: Which member(s) of Bivalvia are the most likely to be married before the Class of 2002's 10-year reunion? Least likely? Most likely to be involved in an adulterous relationship with a member of the clergy? (Whoops. Call that a "Faulknerian Slip.")
Anyway, I'm off to do other, more important things.
posted by Anonymous @ 7:11:00 PM
2.24.2002
It's pikachu time!
Pikachu pikapi!
Pikachu pikapi!
posted by Anonymous @ 10:45:00 AM