Comments on: Marital Bliss

By: Kattbrack603

Kattbrack603 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:51:03 +0000

I thinks it’s more to do with respect than smarts. My wife can be a dumb blonde one minute and an amazing school teacher the next — kids magically go from not reading to reading and writing in months! How’s she do it?

For me, I am almost always lazy and use my limited intelligence in foraging and napping. Working only when I’m on the scheds.

Who’s smarter now?

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:43:37 +0000

I’m pretty sure mine is smarter than I am, in general. I can best her in a few specific applications, mainly physics and mechanics, but that’s why I’m here — to change the oil, fix what’s broken, stomp on spiders and kill the varmints. She outdoes me in so many other areas… OK, pretty much every other area, that it’s not even funny. I’m pretty sure she looks upon me as a fairly simple beast, and that’s probably not far from the truth.

Like that time a couple of years ago I got home from work, there she was in the door with a hot home-made pizza, a cold beer, and wearing nothing but lipstick. I mean, how did she know I wanted cold pizza for supper? *I* didn’t even know that until I got home!

I tell ya, sometimes it’s scary — it’s like she can read my mind or something.

– Max

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:30:27 +0000

6000psi using aluminum? Are we talking about compression, tensile, or torsional pressure here?

Aw, heck — do you still have his design? I do so love to see an elegant, functional design.

Like those of my favorite author, Geoffrey Chaucer, and his seminal treatise on structural engineering.

You know… “Cantilever Tales.”

– Max

By: steveH

steveH — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:56:04 +0000

For us it’ll be 37 years next June. We each figure the other is smarter, and still occasionally surprise each other. (Once we get it all disambiguated, we might be able to figure a score. Maybe.)

Irish, with a bit of Scots and English on my side, Chinese on hers. Less overlap on family recipes, which is a good thing, too.

By: Glenn Mark Cassel AMH1(AW) USN Ret.

Glenn Mark Cassel AMH1(AW) USN Ret. — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:25:17 +0000

Almost 27 years and I still think she is smarter. As for a number quantifying it? I wouldn’t have a clue. Not a Clue. But I would probably be living in a single wide mobile near the tracks in my hometown without her.
One would give pause considering the deployments, detachments and work up cycles that intrude on regular life. But it has been a most rewarding walk through life, indeed.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:08:04 +0000

As much as we’d like to think the old joke — God made women beautiful, so men would be attracted to them. He made them stupid so they’d be attracted to men — is true, deep down inside we know it isn’t.

I’ve tried both sides of that coin — the “smarter than me” side is SO much better.