I've Been Had

Hmmmm. I can take a joke, but sometimes I can't SEE that something is a joke -- or is it?

Take yesterday's post about the web site, Marry Our Daughter. Have I been had? I was so revolted at the Marry Our Daughter site that I didn't look very closely at it beyond reading the list of available daughters. I was so repulsed I got out of there as fast as I could.  Angry's comment (look in the comments section in that post) got me to look at the testimonials on that site, which sound tongue-in-cheek, something along the lines of, "thanks to the bride price, we were able to get out of the trailer park." I think it just may be a joke -- and if so -- they really, really got me.

I'd say there's a lesson to be learned here, which is not to jump to judgment. Except that I'm not going to learn that lesson. If I see daughters being sold, I'm going to run away screaming and call law enforcement.

Yes, it's a hoax. Snopes says so and that it was done just to show the inconsistencies in state marriage laws. I doubt it. I think it was done to be funny. And now that I'm over my outrage, well, I'm still not sure it's funny.

I really had some pondering to do this morning when I received the following response from one friend in law enforcement about it:

Legal?  Hmm...good question.  Probably in South Carolina.  Also, don't be so quick to judgement.  A few more years of sharing your home with an adolescent female and you, too, may be ready to make her somebody else's problem and recoup some of your investment.

The last time I contacted him about a concern such as this (a child porn spam) he wrote back that he'd sent it to the proper authorities. That should have been my first clue. I'll bet my clever law-enforcement friend googled the site and found out the answer. Imagine. Doing research. Who'd have thought. Clearly Not Me.

I just hope that Angry can do something about all those foreskins he's collected. I must say he might be able to pass the pickled ones off as onions or something.

And I hope that Venomous Kate hasn't collected too many on her own.

Comments

[zoe]

i guess i'll tell the girls at work not to save any more!

[Angry]

Marriage laws!?!
I'm not convinced this website's main motivation was inconsistent marriage laws... if so then I would have expected a message concerning those laws to be there somewhere instead of letting me offer my foreskins. Which, by the way, I wouldn't have gotten away with... I mean, if you were able to pick that they weren't foreskins then I guess they would've been able to as well.

So tell me Anne, where did you pick up the skill of spotting fake Philistine foreskins from... hmmmm...?

[Anne]

Where did I pick up the skill of spotting fake Philistine foreskins? If you will recall, I've run into more than my share of exhibitionists, all of whom were Philistines. People keep showing them to me.

[Angry]

Bwahahahaha... very witty Anne.