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

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


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