'Til Death Do Us Part
The family values crowd has everyone hysterical about the possiblity that same-sex unions will undermine the sanctity of the tradition of marriage. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of marriage, it's a lovely thing, but let's not make too much of a big deal out of it. First of all, it's not natural. This doesn't make it any less desirable, or practical, but the reality is that it's not the "glue that holds society together." Cave men probably didn't have marriages, and they managed okay for hundreds of thousands of years. They didn't even have televisions to distract them when tension in the household got so bad you could cut it with a knife. Marriage is a relatively recent invention that came into being after the advent of agriculture, when they had to come up with a legal system for keeping the land in the family. Even then it didn't insure fidelity. I was in grade school when I first heard the old joke, "What's the main cause of divorce?" Answer: "Marriage." On the other hand, as my mother used to say, "some couples are better off staying together. Why ruin two houses?"
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:24 AM
5 Comments:
>>Cave men probably didn't have marriages, and they managed okay for hundreds of thousands of years. They didn't even have televisions to distract them when tension in the household got so bad you could cut it with a knife.<<
Because we have no apparent documentation proving that caveman married is no reason to believe they didn’t. Neither do we have proof that tooth fairies exist other than the twenty five cents I still have in my peanut butter jar.
I believe the famous cave drawings from Chauvet and Lascaux prove beyond a shadow of the doubt that there must have been some sort of domestic arrangement. The female of the house (the wife) got tired of looking at bare stone walls and asked the male of the house (the husband) to do something about it. The male went to one of the members of the klan without a female partner (the decorator) and asked him to fix up the place. This also accounts for the mysterious hand prints found on the cave walls which were put there when the husband saw the bill.
Il professore, you are in rare form tonight. Of course the caveman married the cavewoman. I think, not absolutely certain, you understand, that a diary was found in a cave written by a cavewoman whose husband 'had done her wrong'.
Everyone knows that cavewomen invented gun powder long before the Chinese. Blew his little 'whatit' right off.
I still have my I.O.U. from the tooth fairy so I know that she exsist. It was explained to me as a mere child of 6 that the tooth fairy had fallen on hard times but would be coming any day to honor the debt. So even though I was disappointed, I understood and digging my bare foot into the dirt floor of our mud hut, wrote an O.K. on the floor to her.
Now, John, while this cartoon does not have quite the same feeling as the previous cartoon of yesterday which I admit would be hard to top, it is still wonderful. Not only funny but getting the feeling across as well with the gentle humor that you do so well.
Great commentary but there will always be silly people who do not want things to change. Man/man; woman/woman/ man/woman, what does it matter as long as the love is true? We all march to our own drummers so people should relax.
I have eaten enough carrots (and retrieved enough teeth from the cup by the bed) to know that the tooth fairy is (in fact) "me". As for Santa... well... yes... I've been there too... and the ho ho ho's have over the years (and now the kids have grown) become hum hum hum's *sigh & smile*
Of c-o-u-r-s-e cavemen and women didn't marry... they may have been primitive but they weren't stupid! ;-)
Major league LOL, Jean. So true!
Hey, prof, I bet the only reason you didn't spend the .25 is 'cause it's mired in peanut butter.
Lee, Dickens couldn't have writ it better!
Lee posts:
>>a diary was found in a cave written by a cavewoman whose husband 'had done her wrong'.<<
Interestingly enough, that diary has recently been translated by an associate of Judith Regan. The cavewoman was changed to a young woman in her twenties, working in the fashion industry, engaged to a selfish hedge-fund broker. The young woman orders a club sandwich and uses the club to beat her boyfriend over the head.
The book broke all records in the chick-flick genre.
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