Re: So called "copyright" pictures

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>   Lasse Langwadt Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>>>    [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) wrote:
>
>>>>>Confirmed??? You mean that someone didn't know this???
>
>>>> <GRIN>  A wedding is the first and last time the gal will have
>>>> a starring role.  After the "I do"s, she gets hit with reality
>>>> when she has to wash the Prince's underwear.
>
>>>hopefully they have lived together before the wedding and she would 
>>>already know, anything else would be stupid ...
>
>The statistics are more than clear that the divorce rate is *higher* for
>those who shack up before marriage.  I'm skeptical about the causation,
>though--it seems more plausible to me that,as a group,  those that are 
>less likely to divorce are also less likely to live together before
>marriage.

>From the ones I've seen, getting married was a "last resort" to
try to stay together.  I thought it was a stupid thing to do.
If you've got relationship problems, the last thing to do is
make the bindings legal.

>
>>That's not the tradition.  The white gown is supposed to symbolize
>>to you males that she hasn't been before.
>
>Just the males?

Of course.  It's you guys who insist on virgin territory.


> ...  Surely it's as much for the other females.

Nope.  They already know what's been happening.

>
>The clergy were opposed to the white and yellow gowns when they first
>came into style, upon the grounds that there should be no need to
>advertise such a state, which should be the norm.

Clergy were and are quite two-faced about such things.

/BAH

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