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But why would you ask someone what's wrong? Why would you assume something is wrong?
It makes me feel weird to be asked what's wrong when truthfully there is nothing wrong and all is well.

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I have enjoyed every post in this entire thread but I'll have to say this one of yours is my favorite!

How about... "Woodstock? Yeah, I was there."
Apparently attendance was in the 200,000,000 mark...

Great news gang, Gail Sheehy was interviewed by Diane Rhem and you can hear it.
click here

Do you remember "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"? by Tom Wolfe [1968]. Is there any chance, drinking the kool aid means dropping acid with everyone else?
"The book chronicles the Acid Tests (parties in which LSD-laced Kool-Aid was used to obtain a communal trip), the group's encounters with (in)famous figures of the time, including famous authors, Hells Angels, and The Grateful Dead, and it also describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests." That book was very popular.

Yeah, that book is exactly what everyone thinks of when they hear "drinking the Kool-Aid."

I don't like to hear "the wife".

I have lived with a gorgeous man for 53 years who is truly "arm candy" but I have never referred to him as "the husband".

Glad you brought that one up.
 

Agree. Brings back the recent memory of reading my dad's obituary from 1957
..." besides the wife, he is survived by four children..."

I hated that. And I like "arm candy". :clap2:

Yeah... but it sure beats "the old lady"

Oops, sorry.
 

Oh my goodness, I didn't mean people were thinking of Gail's book when they hear "drinking the Kool-Aid"

My point was, and I guess I failed to make it, that phrase has become such a part of our speech that even this veteran, best selling author used it in her book without even realizing that it was not in the vernaculer for the time she said she was accused of being ready to drink the Kool Aid.

I had written earlier about this so maybe it wasn't clear without reading the other post.

Forgot all about that book, etc.! Thanks for the link!

OMG! Did you really just post, "the old lady"?

List of words that should be banished
 

I think you might be banished as well as "those" words. [emoji196]

Thanks for clarifying. :)

I agree. Men referring to her as "the wife" is like saying "the washer".

Even worse, The Bronx.

The Bronx?
No Thonx.

Ogden Nash - 1931 / New Yorker magazine

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I don't know about the rest of you but I always had and have trouble pronouncing Ms.
It was a real problem in the 70's.

Miss is easy to say and Missus is easy to say but Mizzzz just sits between the front of my tongue and the back of my teeth and I end up saying the zzzzzz part until every woman around me nods their head that I got it right.

How about this one...
"You've been a wonderful audience... give yourselves a hand!"

The first one I ever heard use it was the comedian Shelly Berman.
He was doing a really phony "sincere" routine... just awful.

Some audience members actually applaud themselves.

Another one that bugs me is men referring to their wives as "my (or the) bride." And another one... Referring to your wife or husband as "she" or "he," without identifying her or him first.

"She went to the store and forget to get bread." How about "My wife went to the store, but she forgot to get bread."

Once walked by my boss's office and overheard him in the phone refer to "my girl" (meaning me). He really couldn't understand why I gave my notice that day.

Auuugggghhhhh!!! "My bride" sounds just awful coming from some old geezer who thinks he's a comedian!!! It drives me up a wall!

"The wife" as if she is a possession, like "the bottle opener" or "the beer"...

Thank you!
 

Some guy, claiming to be in his seventies, wrote Dear Abby not knowing if he should disclose to prospective dates that he is no longer able to perform...er...sexually. He asked if women were willing to settle for cuddling, kisses and affection, etc. He also said he had "
"buried two brides".
Well, in the comments section I said that doesn't sound like any 70 year old men that I know and how creepy I thought the bride word was.
I got really lambasted with posters saying how sweet it is when older married men used this term. UGH! Did I say thank you, CFrance? Thank you.

Polar vortex
And
Hunker down

I agree with not using "the wife", "my girl", "the bride", etc. I think you chicks should get a lot more respect

You just ain't right.

Tom, you always make me laugh.

I especially don't like the use of MLB (my lovely bride). I've noticed that men who are considerably older than their wives seem fond of the expression. :ohdear:

I thought you were going to say "you broads". :)

I love MLB! Bring it on! Spring training games just around the corner.

"Hi, I'm William Devane... "

Few things make me reach for the remote faster.

For some strange reason I fine your "PS" quite funny!!

One of my pet peeves is: "etc. etc. etc."

"Actually"

You talkin' to me? :)