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WhitmanO'Neill in Worse Verse quoted A.E. Housman as using Eve as an excuse for beating his wife, and thought it was PinC. I never dared beat my wife, she was my size. And I also quoted elsewhere the old one about the guy who when about to beat his wife, as soon as he got her skirt up, forgot what he was mad about. There's a lot of stupid stuff in the Bible, and the Adam and Eve bit is in that class.
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>TEd ... just pushed me over the edge in the Working Woes and urban hang-gliding threads
Say what? Huh? Who, I?
Seriously, what did I do that I certainly didn't mean to do. Remember, I prefer women over men COMPLETELY!!
TEd
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No menstruation jokes. Period.
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Dear TEd: I never thought I'd hear you use a period as your excuse.
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Since this thread was initiated "for the benefit of any refined ladies", I hereby propose that any gentleman wishing to contribute his wisdom provide it specially colored, as below, so that it can easily be given all attention it merits.
Any male who fails to do so is no gentleman.
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I don't think the person who posted the poem was condoning wife-beating - he or she (I don't remember who) even expressed some shock at its contents.I think of troy was using the poem as an example of changed attitudes, not calling me down for posting it, francais, which is the whole point. To have a poem like that by an author of that stature published in the humor section of a Hallmark poetry anthology in 1960 really boggled my mind. That's why I said I was aghast when I encountered the final line, and put it up as "The Most Politically Incorrect Poem Ever." Just mentioning all this for clarity's sake...my intentions were not to offend but to illustrate what of troy said pertaining to the poem. Thanks, francais, for trying to keep things on even keel. 
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Illegible post as requested. About Housman's poem. Does it make a difference to anybody's opinion if you know that he was gay and never married, so had no wife to beat and presumably could have been satirising other people's attitudes rather than advocating wife-beating.
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