Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
   ak>  "My wife urges me that it is very useful to eat raw   
   ak>  vegetables"   
   ak>  "Yeah, mine also doesn't like cooking!"   
      
      
            Two sentences... two different speakers.  While some software may try   
   to improve on the spacing you got it right.  You omitted a full stop, however.   
      
            As a certain author of practical & amusing books about housewifery...   
   Peg Bracken or Erma Bombeck, I'm not sure which now... once said, it's not the   
   cooking per se.  It's the dailiness... [chuckle].   
      
            As an English teacher I'd say "Mine doesn't like cooking either."  As   
   chief cook & bottle washer in the Hinton residence I enjoyed the series of ads   
   on our daughter's favourite radio station in which some guy advised some other   
   guy how about how Real Men supposedly behave.  I haven't heard such ads lately   
   ... perhaps because others reacted the same way I did.  I don't remember which   
   brand of beer they wanted their listeners to buy.  But I liked the scenario in   
   which Macho Man comments to a male friend, who has just ordered a salad, "Cows   
   eat [the green stuff]... we eat the cows!"  From an anthropological standpoint   
   it makes sense to me that women & children who could get by on fruit & veggies   
   (together with the scraps of meat the Hunters overlooked &/or didn't bother to   
   pick off the bone) would have an evolutionary advantage.  If your job is to go   
   berry-picking & you must at the same time meet the needs of young children who   
   want to be fed every couple of hours, it's very different from that of Hunters   
   who must ingest enough protein & fat at one meal to last until they have found   
   another source of protein & fat.  What makes this joke amusing AFAIC is that I   
   don't personally know anyone who has to load up on whale meat & blubber (e.g.)   
   because they may have to go without food for several days, but a lot of people   
   seem to think they do.  And I note with interest that at a campout where there   
   are various families involved girls come to me for advice re which berries are   
   edible, while boys chop wood & men discuss in detail how to build a fire.  :-)   
      
      
      
   ak>  When a man pretends that he is in love with a woman   
   ak>  he tries to be merry, gallant, to pay all possible   
   ak>  attention to her.   
      
      
            Yeah, Dallas & I heard all about that from his ex-wife.  Within hours   
   of the ceremony she realized she had made a big mistake because he treated her   
   like the dirt beneath his feet as soon as they were legally married... (sigh).   
      
      
      
   ak>  But if a man is really fell in love he resembles a sheep.   
                     | is really in love   
                     | has really fallen in love   
      
      
            Hey, Jude... open your mouth & tell her what's on your mind!  Chances   
   are she feels the same way about you, but is hesitant to say so lest you think   
   she's too forward (or something).  Lennon & McCartney understood that although   
   Jude's demeanour may seem rather inept that's how she knows he's sincere.  ;-)   
      
      
      
   ak>  A strange economic crisis happened in Russia:   
   ak>  All automobile sales centers have sold their cars up to   
   ak>  the middle of 2015.   
      
      
            IOW, the demand exceeds the supply... or does it?  Satire alert.  :-))   
      
            Most people I know would buy last year's model because they can get   
   it at a reduced price... assuming they can afford to buy a new car as opposed   
   to a used one & needn't rely on public transit.  If you guys are so well off   
   you are lining up to buy the most recent model... Not Our Class, Dear!  OTOH I   
   see real estate prices being driven up by folks from Hong Kong who buy housing   
   they have no intention of living in permanently, unless things go amiss Over   
   There... and I understand that, from their POV, housing in Vancouver & its   
   suburbs is cheap. Now tell me how ordinary Russians live.  I reckon the   
   proportion of individuals who don't care how much money it takes to impress   
   their friends & neighbours is about the same on both sides of the Atlantic,   
   Pacific, or Arctic Ocean....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)