As threatened, I did get about 7lbs of snow crab legs. And
once I got there and saw the meat was [marinated] sirloin
FLAP meat, I bought 6 pounds of that too. Sirloin <nyeh>...
But sirloin FLAP meat - FUCK YES!. I bought the MAX BAG for
$44. Total cost was about $72 for 7lbs of luscious surf
and 6lbs of easy turf.

Add a corked La Fin Du monde and a 6-pack of Spaten
Optimator - a cool, crisp $100 bill in all. Pbbbt! A mere
half a day's net salary as a small-time drug dealer (but a
$100 loss considering I take Sundays and Mondays off
<shrug>).

I forgot how much any crab less than a dungeness was to
pick. But at least it wasn't those frustrating fuck-all blue
swimmer crabs from the East coast. Don't tell Satan, but
hell for me would be an eternity of picking blue swimmer
crabs even if I was allowed to eat all my pickings.
FUUUUuuuck... THAT!

https://postimg.cc/gallery/Kx7Qq69

And I have a shitload of single serving "snack packs" left,
Great for your kid's lunchbox!

https://postimg.cc/gallery/YSPbzmw

Anyway, it's Tuesday tomorrow - back to the weekly
grind <sigh>.

-sw

-sw

Sqwertz wrote:
> As threatened, I did get about 7lbs of snow crab legs. And
> once I got there and saw the meat was [marinated] sirloin
> FLAP meat, I bought 6 pounds of that too. Sirloin <nyeh>...
> But sirloin FLAP meat - FUCK YES!. I bought the MAX BAG for
> $44. Total cost was about $72 for 7lbs of luscious surf
> and 6lbs of easy turf.
>
> Add a corked La Fin Du monde and a 6-pack of Spaten
> Optimator - a cool, crisp $100 bill in all. Pbbbt! A mere
> half a day's net salary as a small-time drug dealer (but a
> $100 loss considering I take Sundays and Mondays off
> <shrug>).
>
> I forgot how much any crab less than a dungeness was to
> pick. But at least it wasn't those frustrating fuck-all blue
> swimmer crabs from the East coast. Don't tell Satan, but
> hell for me would be an eternity of picking blue swimmer
> crabs even if I was allowed to eat all my pickings.
> FUUUUuuuck... THAT!
>
> https://postimg.cc/gallery/Kx7Qq69
>
> And I have a shitload of single serving "snack packs" left,
> Great for your kid's lunchbox!
>
> https://postimg.cc/gallery/YSPbzmw
>
> Anyway, it's Tuesday tomorrow - back to the weekly
> grind <sigh>.
>
> -sw
>
>
>
> -sw
>

The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
work with the snow crab.

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:

>Sqwertz wrote:
>> As threatened, I did get about 7lbs of snow crab legs. And
>> once I got there and saw the meat was [marinated] sirloin
>> FLAP meat, I bought 6 pounds of that too. Sirloin <nyeh>...
>> But sirloin FLAP meat - FUCK YES!. I bought the MAX BAG for
>> $44. Total cost was about $72 for 7lbs of luscious surf
>> and 6lbs of easy turf.
>>
>> Add a corked La Fin Du monde and a 6-pack of Spaten
>> Optimator - a cool, crisp $100 bill in all. Pbbbt! A mere
>> half a day's net salary as a small-time drug dealer (but a
>> $100 loss considering I take Sundays and Mondays off
>> <shrug>).
>>
>> I forgot how much any crab less than a dungeness was to
>> pick. But at least it wasn't those frustrating fuck-all blue
>> swimmer crabs from the East coast. Don't tell Satan, but
>> hell for me would be an eternity of picking blue swimmer
>> crabs even if I was allowed to eat all my pickings.
>> FUUUUuuuck... THAT!
>>
>> https://postimg.cc/gallery/Kx7Qq69
>>
>> And I have a shitload of single serving "snack packs" left,
>> Great for your kid's lunchbox!
>>
>> https://postimg.cc/gallery/YSPbzmw
>>
>> Anyway, it's Tuesday tomorrow - back to the weekly
>> grind <sigh>.
>>
>> -sw
>>
>>
>>
>> -sw
>>
>
>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>work with the snow crab.

"The wife" :)

On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Sqwertz wrote:
>>> As threatened, I did get about 7lbs of snow crab legs. And
>>> once I got there and saw the meat was [marinated] sirloin
>>> FLAP meat, I bought 6 pounds of that too. Sirloin <nyeh>...
>>> But sirloin FLAP meat - FUCK YES!. I bought the MAX BAG for
>>> $44. Total cost was about $72 for 7lbs of luscious surf
>>> and 6lbs of easy turf.
>>>
>>> Add a corked La Fin Du monde and a 6-pack of Spaten
>>> Optimator - a cool, crisp $100 bill in all. Pbbbt! A mere
>>> half a day's net salary as a small-time drug dealer (but a
>>> $100 loss considering I take Sundays and Mondays off
>>> <shrug>).
>>>
>>> I forgot how much any crab less than a dungeness was to
>>> pick. But at least it wasn't those frustrating fuck-all blue
>>> swimmer crabs from the East coast. Don't tell Satan, but
>>> hell for me would be an eternity of picking blue swimmer
>>> crabs even if I was allowed to eat all my pickings.
>>> FUUUUuuuck... THAT!
>>>
>>> https://postimg.cc/gallery/Kx7Qq69
>>>
>>> And I have a shitload of single serving "snack packs" left,
>>> Great for your kid's lunchbox!
>>>
>>> https://postimg.cc/gallery/YSPbzmw
>>>
>>> Anyway, it's Tuesday tomorrow - back to the weekly
>>> grind <sigh>.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -sw
>>>
>>
>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>>work with the snow crab.
>
> "The wife" :)

It's an idiomatic expression. You're just going to have to deal
with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
me wince.

--
Cindy Hamilton

On 06 Mar 2024 10:11:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
wrote:

>On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>>>work with the snow crab.
>>
>> "The wife" :)
>
>It's an idiomatic expression.

I know.

>You're just going to have to deal with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>me wince.

"The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
it too.

In article <us9g42$at4h$2@dont-email.me>,
Bruce@invalid.invalid says...
>
> On 06 Mar 2024 10:11:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
> >>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
> >>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
> >>>work with the snow crab.
> >>
> >> "The wife" :)
> >
> >It's an idiomatic expression.
>
> I know.
>
> >You're just going to have to deal with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
> >me wince.
>
> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
> it too.

I knew a woman who
was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
married, had children. She always referred to her husband
as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
an intimacy for private family use only.

Janet UK

On 2024-03-06 11:21 a.m., Janet wrote:
> In article <us9g42$at4h$2@dont-email.me>,
> Bruce@invalid.invalid says...

>> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
>> it too.
>
>
> I knew a woman who
> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
> married, had children. She always referred to her husband
> as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
> always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
> close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
> an intimacy for private family use only.
>

Some cultures are a lot more formal about surnames and titles. I have
noticed that with a number of northern and eastern Europeans. They
expected to be addressed by their surname. My nephew's wife was
Hungarian and some time after they were married she told us we could
call her Annush, which I guess was a familiar term. A woman at my wife's
church was Mrs.... to most people. We tended to call her by her first
name, Giselle, and after she got to know us better we were told we could
call her Gisela.

The most curious one was Cheap Bob's snotty step mother. Bob's brother
and wife were visiting from Saskatchewan and the Bob's girlfriend and
SiL took her to Toronto to see Phantom of the Opera. My wife had
arranged for them to go back stage to meet a friend of ours who had the
lead Bass role. The guy had been a leading opera singer and professor
for decades. Bob's sister in law lead the visit, introduced herself and
Bob's girlfriend and then introduced the MiL by her first name. The
snotty old Hungarian was incensed and rudely interjected.... "I am Mrs.
Girouard. I am not the cleaning lady."

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:21:27 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:

>In article <us9g42$at4h$2@dont-email.me>,
>Bruce@invalid.invalid says...
>>
>> On 06 Mar 2024 10:11:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>> >>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>> >>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>> >>>work with the snow crab.
>> >>
>> >> "The wife" :)
>> >
>> >It's an idiomatic expression.
>>
>> I know.
>>
>> >You're just going to have to deal with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>> >me wince.
>>
>> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
>> it too.
>
>
> I knew a woman who
> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>an intimacy for private family use only.

That's strange, but it doesn't sound as bad to me as "the wife".

By the way, are you saying Ophelia once was a nun? I believe she
referred to Mr Ophelia as Himself.

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:42:23 -0500, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On 2024-03-06 11:21 a.m., Janet wrote:
>> In article <us9g42$at4h$2@dont-email.me>,
>> Bruce@invalid.invalid says...
>
>>> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
>>> it too.
>>
>> I knew a woman who
>> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>> married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>> as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>> always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>> close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>> an intimacy for private family use only.
>
>Some cultures are a lot more formal about surnames and titles. I have
>noticed that with a number of northern and eastern Europeans. They
>expected to be addressed by their surname. My nephew's wife was
>Hungarian and some time after they were married she told us we could
>call her Annush, which I guess was a familiar term. A woman at my wife's
>church was Mrs.... to most people. We tended to call her by her first
>name, Giselle, and after she got to know us better we were told we could
>call her Gisela.

People don't have last names in Australia. Even the bank addresses me
as Bruce in their letters.

On 06/03/2024 17:51, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:21:27 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>
>> I knew a woman who
>> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>> married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>> as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>> always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>> close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>> an intimacy for private family use only.
>
> That's strange, but it doesn't sound as bad to me as "the wife".
>
> By the way, are you saying Ophelia once was a nun? I believe she
> referred to Mr Ophelia as Himself.
>
I've never been a nun, but I have been known to refer to my husband as
'Himself'.

Many years ago, I worked in the library of a research group in a
well-known Scottish university. The director was a bit of a snob, and
used titles and surnames for his social equals, and forenames (without
permission) for those whom he considered beneath him.
One day, he was in the library and addressed me as Sheila. I raised my
eyebrow and looked at him. He never did that again.

On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 06 Mar 2024 10:11:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>>>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>>>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>>>>work with the snow crab.
>>>
>>> "The wife" :)
>>
>>It's an idiomatic expression.
>
> I know.
>
>>You're just going to have to deal with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>>me wince.
>
> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
> it too.

Why do you care what it sounds like? Are you some sort of snob?

--
Cindy Hamilton

On 2024-03-06, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
> In article <us9g42$at4h$2@dont-email.me>,
> Bruce@invalid.invalid says...
>>
>> On 06 Mar 2024 10:11:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>> >>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>> >>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>> >>>work with the snow crab.
>> >>
>> >> "The wife" :)
>> >
>> >It's an idiomatic expression.
>>
>> I know.
>>
>> >You're just going to have to deal with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>> >me wince.
>>
>> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
>> it too.
>
>
> I knew a woman who
> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
> married, had children. She always referred to her husband
> as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
> always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
> close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
> an intimacy for private family use only.
>
> Janet UK

I occasionally refer to my husband as Mr. Hamilton. Once in a
while I call him that directly: "What do you want for dinner,
Mr. Hamilton?" It's a joke.

What's that other British expression I've read? "Her indoors" ?

--
Cindy Hamilton

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 18:32:33 +0000, S Viemeister
<firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote:

>On 06/03/2024 17:51, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:21:27 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I knew a woman who
>>> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>>> married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>>> as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>>> always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>>> close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>>> an intimacy for private family use only.
>>
>> That's strange, but it doesn't sound as bad to me as "the wife".
>>
>> By the way, are you saying Ophelia once was a nun? I believe she
>> referred to Mr Ophelia as Himself.
>>
>I've never been a nun, but I have been known to refer to my husband as
>'Himself'.

Ok. Although I believe Ophelia was raised Catholic, so maybe... But
more likely it's just more common than I knew, in the UK.

>Many years ago, I worked in the library of a research group in a
>well-known Scottish university. The director was a bit of a snob, and
>used titles and surnames for his social equals, and forenames (without
>permission) for those whom he considered beneath him.
>One day, he was in the library and addressed me as Sheila. I raised my
>eyebrow and looked at him. He never did that again.

If it was an Australian university, everybody from "high" to "low"
would call each other by their first name. I always thought the Dutch
were pretty informal, compared to the Germans and the French for
instance, but the Australians beat them hands down.

On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:21:27 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <us9g42$at4h$2@dont-email.me>,
>>Bruce@invalid.invalid says...
>>>
>>> On 06 Mar 2024 10:11:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>>> >>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>>> >>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>>> >>>work with the snow crab.
>>> >>
>>> >> "The wife" :)
>>> >
>>> >It's an idiomatic expression.
>>>
>>> I know.
>>>
>>> >You're just going to have to deal with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>>> >me wince.
>>>
>>> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
>>> it too.
>>
>>
>> I knew a woman who
>> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>>married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>>as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>>always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>>close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>>an intimacy for private family use only.
>
> That's strange, but it doesn't sound as bad to me as "the wife".
>
> By the way, are you saying Ophelia once was a nun? I believe she
> referred to Mr Ophelia as Himself.

It isn't about someone being a nun. "Himself" as slang for a husband
is even listed in the Urban Dictionary.

--
Cindy Hamilton

On 06 Mar 2024 18:34:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
wrote:

>On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 06 Mar 2024 10:11:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>>>>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>>>>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>>>>>work with the snow crab.
>>>>
>>>> "The wife" :)
>>>
>>>It's an idiomatic expression.
>>
>> I know.
>>
>>>You're just going to have to deal with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>>>me wince.
>>
>> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
>> it too.
>
>Why do you care what it sounds like? Are you some sort of snob?

Of course and so are you.

On 06 Mar 2024 18:36:55 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
wrote:

>On 2024-03-06, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>
>> I knew a woman who
>> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>> married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>> as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>> always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>> close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>> an intimacy for private family use only.
>>
>> Janet UK
>
>I occasionally refer to my husband as Mr. Hamilton. Once in a
>while I call him that directly: "What do you want for dinner,
>Mr. Hamilton?" It's a joke.
>
>What's that other British expression I've read? "Her indoors" ?

Is that for when the husband's outside building a new garden shed,
cleaning the gutters, combing the horses and harvesting the potatoes
while the wife watches daytime soaps on the couch?

On 06/03/2024 18:39, Bruce wrote:

> <firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote:

>> Many years ago, I worked in the library of a research group in a
>> well-known Scottish university. The director was a bit of a snob, and
>> used titles and surnames for his social equals, and forenames (without
>> permission) for those whom he considered beneath him.
>> One day, he was in the library and addressed me as Sheila. I raised my
>> eyebrow and looked at him. He never did that again.
>
> If it was an Australian university, everybody from "high" to "low"
> would call each other by their first name. I always thought the Dutch
> were pretty informal, compared to the Germans and the French for
> instance, but the Australians beat them hands down.
>
My father told me about participating in a 'duzen' ceremony in Germany.
It was, apparently, quite an honour.

On 06 Mar 2024 18:40:01 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
wrote:

>On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:21:27 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <us9g42$at4h$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>Bruce@invalid.invalid says...
>>>>
>>>> On 06 Mar 2024 10:11:41 GMT, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:59:16 -0500, Alex <Xela777@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>>The wife has snow crab at a restaurant a few weeks ago and damn, they
>>>> >>>were thin.  She got a huge plateful but she also got a lot of work. 
>>>> >>>Some places here have a band saw to split the king crab. That wouldn't
>>>> >>>work with the snow crab.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> "The wife" :)
>>>> >
>>>> >It's an idiomatic expression.
>>>>
>>>> I know.
>>>>
>>>> >You're just going to have to deal with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>>>> >me wince.
>>>>
>>>> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
>>>> it too.
>>>
>>>
>>> I knew a woman who
>>> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>>>married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>>>as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>>>always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>>>close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>>>an intimacy for private family use only.
>>
>> That's strange, but it doesn't sound as bad to me as "the wife".
>>
>> By the way, are you saying Ophelia once was a nun? I believe she
>> referred to Mr Ophelia as Himself.
>
>It isn't about someone being a nun. "Himself" as slang for a husband
>is even listed in the Urban Dictionary.

I understand that you don't have to have been a nun to refer to your
husband as Himself.

On 2024-03-06, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
> On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>> "The wife" :)

> It's an idiomatic expression. You're just going to have to deal
> with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
> me wince.

Back in the Seventies, I frequented a bar where a elderly man referred to
his wife as "the old hide", even in her presence. They both seemed OK
with it. Now, I wonder...was that bad?

On 3/6/2024 1:36 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2024-03-06, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:

>>
>> I knew a woman who
>> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>> married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>> as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>> always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>> close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>> an intimacy for private family use only.
>>
>> Janet UK
>
> I occasionally refer to my husband as Mr. Hamilton. Once in a
> while I call him that directly: "What do you want for dinner,
> Mr. Hamilton?" It's a joke.
>

Terms of endearment. For the past 40 years after we moved I've been
writing letters to my friend near Philly. The salutation has always
been the same, a shortened version of her surname. They always start
Dear Ms. Friz,

I think she would be disappointed if I used her name instead. Takes 3
to 4 weeks to finish a letter, just my occasional thoughts for the day.

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> On 2024-03-06, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> "The wife" :)
>
>> It's an idiomatic expression. You're just going to have to deal
>> with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>> me wince.
>
>
> Back in the Seventies, I frequented a bar where a elderly man referred to
> his wife as "the old hide", even in her presence. They both seemed OK
> with it. Now, I wonder...was that bad?
>

I also heard the wife referred to as "the dragon". This was in a bar, and
not in her presence. ;)

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
....
> Back in the Seventies, I frequented a bar where a elderly man referred to
> his wife as "the old hide", even in her presence. They both seemed OK
> with it. Now, I wonder...was that bad?

you've never heard "The old ball and chain..."?

i'm annoyed by many of them. Dear Husband or Dear Wife
are nice, but normally these days i see them abbreviated
as DH or DW.

songbird

On 2024-03-06 10:53 a.m., Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:42:23 -0500, Dave Smith
> <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2024-03-06 11:21 a.m., Janet wrote:
>>> In article <us9g42$at4h$2@dont-email.me>,
>>> Bruce@invalid.invalid says...
>>
>>>> "The wife" sounds very lower socio-economic to me. Jebus used to say
>>>> it too.
>>>
>>> I knew a woman who
>>> was a nun for a decade or so, then she left the convent,
>>> married, had children. She always referred to her husband
>>> as Himself. I knew other married women in Scotland who
>>> always referred to their husband as Mr Surname, even to
>>> close friends. In some cultures, an adult's forename was
>>> an intimacy for private family use only.
>>
>> Some cultures are a lot more formal about surnames and titles. I have
>> noticed that with a number of northern and eastern Europeans. They
>> expected to be addressed by their surname. My nephew's wife was
>> Hungarian and some time after they were married she told us we could
>> call her Annush, which I guess was a familiar term. A woman at my wife's
>> church was Mrs.... to most people. We tended to call her by her first
>> name, Giselle, and after she got to know us better we were told we could
>> call her Gisela.
>
> People don't have last names in Australia. Even the bank addresses me
> as Bruce in their letters.

Good job it's not Sheila!

On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 18:56:22 +0000, S Viemeister
<firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote:

>On 06/03/2024 18:39, Bruce wrote:
>
>> <firstname@lastname.oc.ku> wrote:
>
>>> Many years ago, I worked in the library of a research group in a
>>> well-known Scottish university. The director was a bit of a snob, and
>>> used titles and surnames for his social equals, and forenames (without
>>> permission) for those whom he considered beneath him.
>>> One day, he was in the library and addressed me as Sheila. I raised my
>>> eyebrow and looked at him. He never did that again.
>>
>> If it was an Australian university, everybody from "high" to "low"
>> would call each other by their first name. I always thought the Dutch
>> were pretty informal, compared to the Germans and the French for
>> instance, but the Australians beat them hands down.
>>
>My father told me about participating in a 'duzen' ceremony in Germany.
>It was, apparently, quite an honour.

I had to look that up. I've never had that honour :)

On 6 Mar 2024 19:18:33 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 2024-03-06, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-03-06, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> "The wife" :)
>
>> It's an idiomatic expression. You're just going to have to deal
>> with it. Women refer to their husband as "the hubs", which makes
>> me wince.
>
>
>Back in the Seventies, I frequented a bar where a elderly man referred to
>his wife as "the old hide", even in her presence. They both seemed OK
>with it. Now, I wonder...was that bad?

Maybe "old hide" would sound mild if we knew how she referred to him
:)