{"id":498,"date":"2009-10-28T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/10\/28\/mr-e-man-is-not-old-and-stupid\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:25:00","slug":"mr-e-man-is-not-old-and-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/10\/28\/mr-e-man-is-not-old-and-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr E Man is not old and stupid&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;just older and stupider* than me!<\/p>\n<p>I saw&nbsp;an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8325579.stm\">article<\/a> on the BBC website on Monday proclaiming that &#8220;the secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you&#8221;.<b> <\/b>After reading about this no doubt world-class research, I went home that evening to give<b> <\/b>Mr E Man the good news that we&#8217;re all set for an eternity of marital bliss. (The fact that he was in the middle of cooking dinner and had a glass of chilled white wine waiting for me might help, too).<\/p>\n<p>I might hold off on telling him the corresponding story from <a href=\"http:\/\/newsarse.com\/\">News Arse<\/a>, though. The <a href=\"http:\/\/newsarse.com\/2009\/10\/27\/women-encouraged-to-marry-old-and-stupid-men\/\">article<\/a> on this satirical UK news site (fans of the BBC website will recognise the layout, fans of The Onion will recognise the style) is titled &#8220;women encouraged to marry old and stupid men&#8221;, and gives hope to &#8220;those previously considered terminally undate-worthy&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reg Brown told us, \u201cI\u2019m thick as pig shit and the wrong side of fifty, so this is the best news I\u2019ve had since The Sun did its 10p issues&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good stuff!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>*Not true &#8211; I may be more educated, but I was only (although consistently, heh) ahead by 2 IQ points in some online tests we did for fun a few years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;just older and stupider* than me! I saw&nbsp;an article on the BBC website on Monday proclaiming that &#8220;the secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/10\/28\/mr-e-man-is-not-old-and-stupid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,74,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-roll","category-current-affairs","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}