BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: freda underhill
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 07:40 AM

How true is the following?

'A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that
the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending
on where she is in her menstrual cycle.

For instance, if she is ovulating she is attracted to men with rugged
and masculine features. However, if she is menstruating or menopausal,
she is more prone to be attracted to a man with scissors lodged in his
temple and a bat jammed up his ass while he is on fire.

Further studies are expected.'

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Peace
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:35 AM

Scrubbin' the floor, huh? Say, while you're down there . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Bert
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:08 AM

Hey Janie, I know you womenz is a force of nature. I was just suggesting a way for you to use that force to get what you want.

Just say to 'im OI MUSH! do this. And he'll do it (but don't forget to be naked when you say it) Get that FORCE to work.

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Peace
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 12:10 AM

But will you be gentle with it?

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Janie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:52 PM

Now Bert, don't you be introducin' no rational thought or objectivity into this little rant of mine! Don't you go suggesting that there are two sides to this issue! Don't you go messin' with a womanz stressed by the Holidays! We womenz is a force of nature, especially when it is holiday season and we are having hotflashes, and the pager is going off because somehow we end up "on-call" for the 4th Thanksgiving week in a row, and we are the breadwinner and our clinic where we have worked for many years and with which we are very happy and that we believe makes a very real difference in people's lives and which also is only 1 block from home and 2 blocks from our kids elementary school is going to end in 6 months as another "safety net" gets reformed out of existence by this "compassionately conservative"
"moral majority" recently reelected to run this country.

And if that weren't enough, the annual Christmas kitchen sink emergency of one sort or another just bumped itself up a month when the less than 4 month old, expensive, commercial grade hose that feeds the nozzle exploded Friday and the part is on order and MAY be in by Thanksgiving, not to mention that the pie crusts browned too quickly and I forgot to cover them.

Watch out, Guys. I need someone to blame. I'm warning you, I'm holding a turkey baster....And I know how to use it!

Love,

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Bert
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 08:54 PM

We BOTH laughed at that cartoon Janie. What you have to realise is that you were doing all those things in the kitchen because YOU wanted to. Guys and Gals have different priorities.

If you don't believe me, just serve the guy a cheese sandwich for thanksgiving and he'll be delighted (Don't forget to be naked when you serve it though).

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: open mike
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 08:40 PM

howse about he goes to drive to the coop for the meat..
then he can be bringing home the bacon....in a real way.
sometimes i think we gals take on too much...presuming
"WE" have to do this and that....look at the list of to do;s
and see if some can be shared by him or other houshold members..

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 08:31 PM

Hey ladies chill!

Your turkeys gonna burn if you don't get back in that kitchen and pay attention!

Sorry, the chauvenist in me got out for a minute.

My wife flips out about this time of year with cleaning and cooking. The funny thing is that it is she who wants the perfect Thanksgiving/Christmas. It's not like we, the rest of the family, are "Demanding" anything. I'd settle for a Turkey TV dinner and I'm willing to cook it myself. The house doesn't have to be clean (for me anyway) and she goes overboard when I can't even see any dirt. I help as much as I can but it's never good enough so why bother? I just stay the hell out of the way!

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Morticia
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 07:15 PM

try the 'I just saw red' defence, Janie..........gets 'em everytime.......oh, and Pixie said keep him out in the yard or keep the central heating down til we get there.

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: freightdawg
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:49 PM

What's the problem....

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Janie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:24 PM

Now don't get me wrong, girls. I don't hate 'em. In fact, some of my favorite people are of the male persuasion. I just get a little...shall we say....exasperated...you know, like ol'Bobert gets with womenz in the checkout line...only, ya see, I had this knife in my hand, and.....well, I'll spare you the details.

Janie, the Steel Magnolia

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 05:04 PM

packabastards, the lot of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: open mike
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:54 PM

way arej you always doing thigs for HIS family?
what gifts or favore do they get from him?
what abuot your family? does he reciprocate?
that sounds so familiar...actually i have no
siblings, and my "wasband" had 3 brothers.
I often vistied his parents, and brothers and
took out children to meet with their grandparents,
'cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. 'he sometimes did not
even come along...

jsut think of what a disjointed world it would be
if the distaff side was not here holding it all
together!!

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Davetnova
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:25 PM

And I love the old couple -
Her - "Lets go upstairs and make Love"
Him - "I can only do one or the other"

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Davetnova
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:23 PM

Hee Hee Hee I have a Thread for this.

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: artbrooks
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:16 PM

I really don't understand the problem. After all, we have an equal division of labor...she cooks and I wash up. Is it my fault that the cooking takes 6 hours and the washing 30 minutes? Just slow, is all.

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:54 PM

Janie - Its NOT just the Menz !! I spent too many years doing the 'New Man' bit - Cup of tea in bed before I left for work , the laundry done before she got home , Did MOST of the washing up too - She liked do do Sunday Lunch though I did my share of meal preparing ,
none of which stopped her Disappearing like a shot when she found herself a younger fellow !!

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:50 PM

Phreeeowwwwwww (as Zaphod might have put it!).

It's not that long since I had an evening where I was cooking tea while trying to get son ready to go off on a Morris weekend while trying to make sure model railway worked and pack it into the car for an exhibition the following day while printing leaflets for HER to take to a conference the following day (where she got wined and dined, I might add...).

She was at work (bless her!) doing her bit for the household economy.

You have my sympathy - open the other can and join him!

Share and enjoy

epn

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:47 PM

Her eyes were black
Her face was red
Her hair was a fright
She looked as though
She'd been a cryin'
Half of the night
I told her I was sorry
She said get out of sight
Poor Janie

Giok - you are a kindred spirit.

Janie,
You didn't stuff the turkey as far as it would go, did you?

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:40 PM

I took my little Janie to a party last night
At one o-clock it ended in a heck of a fight
Somebody hit my Janie she went out like a light
Poor Janie!

Originally Poor Jenny, but when this song sung by the Everley Brothers came out, I was dating a gorgeous redhead called Jane, so I changed the words as above, and that's the way I always remember them now.
Happy Thanksgiving Janie

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Janie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:33 PM

I was tempted to roast the Turkey with the turkey!

OK Terry, I'll have the sheet torn into strips to climb out of the window once the bars are hacked thru. I will need a getaway vehicle and a plane ticket to some where very far away.

What I want and expect from him is not help---after 18 years of doing all the things the therapists, 12 step groups and self-help gurus suggest, we both accept that he ain't gonna help and I ain't gonna leave. But a little empathy, appreciation, and a whole lot of staying out of my way so I can get stuff done would perhaps have saved the poor man.

Poor Ol' Put Upon Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Morticia
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 02:15 PM

Janie.........I appreciate we don't have to find bail money,I will start the cake with the file in tonight. If you haven't actually killed him yet, I expect Pixie and I could fly over and help hide the body.

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: GUEST,Charmion at work
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 01:00 PM

Charlotte Whitton, mayor of Ottawa (mid-1950s) and prominent Canadian feminist, once wrote, "A women has to work twice as hard as a man to be thought half as good at the same job. Fortunately, this is not difficult."

On the other hand, you could try going on strike: a week before Christmas, ask your Significant Other what he's planning to make for the official feast, and when he's going to start the obligatory house-cleaning. It's worth doing just for the stunned glare.

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 12:42 PM

Sorry, but it's not the men, it's our own damned brain chemistry. Women are designed to multi-task. We have to work as hard to NOT do that as men do, to DO that.

The good news is we are also designed to do two other important and life-giving things:

1. Delegate to objective-driven men, and
2. Throw old cheap china around in the kitchen, especially on our birthdays!

:~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 12:38 PM

I like that Hrumph, especially on ISIHAC!

Giok;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Tinker
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 12:34 PM

But it's your birthday....... and there were serious extenuating circumstances. Where is his list for the day ???? For the holidays ??? Oh, you mean it takes so many reminders that you end up doing it anyway??? WHy does that story sound so familiar??

Subject: RE: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 12:28 PM

LOL

Subject: BS: Them Menz! Huff & Hrumph
From: Janie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 12:23 PM

I cut out the cartoon strip, Baby Blues, and took it home and taped it on the oven hood. In big bold Black Letters it said...."A really, really, really bad answer." Next frame....SHE is franticly mixing ingredients for holiday cooking and says to him "Don't you just hate all the stress that goes with the holdiday season?" He is standing watching her, one hand in his pocket, the other holding a canned drink to his lips. His reply? "What stress?"

    I am in the kitchen baking pumpkin pies, making cranberry relish, and assembling a scalloped potato cassarole in preparation for Thanksgiving, when his Dad will be here. I am simultaneously fixing supper and talking on the phone to a catalog company about an out of stock item I had ordered for his sister for Christmas. I occasionally dash to the table to add a note to my menu and the prep schedule for Thursday's feast. I am thinking that I have to get his family's gifts wrapped and sent off to California and France ASAP and when will I have the time to finish shopping for Santa, and my kid's birthday party which is the week before Christmas. I have to drive 15 miles to the co-op to pick up the turkey and the ham that I ordered. Got to clean out the fridge or none of this stuff will fit.

    Hubby strolls in from target shooting at the farm. Sees the cartoon on the ovenhood and reads it. Turns to me and says, dead serious, "yeh, that's really true. For some reason you women always do stress over the holidays. I guess it must be biological."

    I will give you my cell number just as soon as the arraignment is over. It was so gruesome, I don't think they will set bond for me.

Happy Holidays,

Janie