[extropy-chat] can't beat a wife

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:12 AM 12/27/2006 +0000, Robert wrote:

>On 12/26/06, Damien Broderick 
><<mailto:thespike at satx.rr.com>thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>I haven't stopped beating my wife either.
>
>Ok Damien, this one doesn't fly.  (For those on the list I "know" 
>Damien personally at least a little bit.)

Not well enough, it seems. :)

>To the best of my knowledge you don't currently *have* a wife.

Sometime-extropy lister Barbara Lamar and I have been married since March 2002.

>So claiming to beat or not beat something which doesn't exist 
>involves debating chicanery.  You are discussing wouldas, couldas 
>and shouldas and we have better things to do with our time.

I can think of one immediately: getting married, my good man! There's 
much to be said for it; can't beat it, in fact!

Damien Broderick