Mark Sobolewski (mark_sobolewski{at}yahoo.com) writes:
> In article ,
>  dg411{at}FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andre Lieven) wrote:
>
>> USA (no{at}thanks.com) writes:
>> > On 1 Mar 2005 14:35:41 -0800, mark_sobolewski{at}yahoo.com wrote:
>> >
>> >>My wife and I had a fun conversation watching Sex and the City.
>> >>
>> >>Charlotte, in the show, had divorced from her trophy husband
>> >>because of problems she was having conceiving with him
>> >>and him not cooperating with her fertility clinic visits.
>> >>
>> >>My wife suggested, jokingly, that she was stupid.  She could
>> >>always just get another man's sperm and say the child
>> >>is the husband's, right?
>> >
>> > Many things said in "jest" are meant sincerely just
the same.  I would
>> > never make such a "cute" suggestion to my husband
even jokingly.  I've
>> > never even thought about doing it to him or any other man I was
>> > involved with.  The thought of it is abhorrent to me.  For that
>> > matter, even if I hated the man, I would not be able to play such a
>> > lousy trick on my own child.
>> >>
>> >>I told her that DNA testing could be done just by taking some hair
>> >>from the child on a car seat and his own to the drugstore,
>> >>buy a kit, and that's that.
>> >
>> > What kind of kit is that?  I've never heard that DNA testing can be
>> > done outside of a laboratory.  In many places a court order or a
>> > doctor's order is still required.
>> >>
>> >>Her eyes got all wide and she proclaimed: "That's not
GOOD!"
>> >>and laughed.  I know she's a good person and wouldn't
>> >>want to do such a thing, but how many women knowing this
>> >>technology exists are now thinking twice?
>> >
>> > So she has dishonest ideas and you respond by lying to her and she is
>> > in return greatly surprised (as in temporarily foiled?).  You both
>> > might want to start sleeping with one eye open.
>>
>> I think that Mark and his wife were joshing with each other, in
>> a way that I've seen other folks do, who would never actually do
>> the deed.
>>
>> Rather, its more like a couple of pals here in town. One is of Irish
>> extraction, the other natice Canadian. A couple of times, when they've
>> just havin' fun, where the native guy calls the other a " dumb Irish
>> mick " ( Yeah, I know, redundancy; What other kinds of micks are
>> there ? ), getting a " Tonto " reference back.
>>
>> Once, while they were goofin', another person, a female, decided
>> that they were serious, and asked them to stop it.
>>
>> So, Mark and his wife were more likely just playing a devil's
>> advocate funnin' thing, done as a method to assure that the
>> spoken of actions are really abhorrant, and dealing with that
>> abhorrance by way of disarming humour.
>>
>> So, Mark, was I right, or what ? Serious question. I want to be
>> sure that I understood your and your wife's positions accurately.
>>
>> Andre
>
> Yeah, she's having buying sperm at the bank at this moment
> just to avoid having my child. :-)

Make sure that she gets the real stuff, and not library
paste... 

I'll take that as a " yes ".

Andre

--
" I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. "
                                    The Man Prayer, Red Green.


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