Remember the movie "Diner," where Eddie gives Elyse a 140-question test about football (the Baltimore Orioles, actually) as a condition of going through with the marriage? (If you don't... )
Well, it appears that a bride in India gave her man a pop quiz. He failed, and she bailed.
(The quiz was, "What is 15 plus 6?" His answer, "17," is indeed a disqualification for someone who claimed to have gone to college. UNLESS, I should note, the person went to college at an "elite" U.S. school and majored in any of the "Indignation Studies" curricula.)
Just as a lagniappe, the story also mentions a different wedding, where the groom had a seizure and the bride asked for volunteers. I wonder how that went: "Look, I got the dress, and the henna, and Dad paid for the feast. It would be a shame to waste it. Anybody wanna step up here? You? Can you do simple addition problems? Okay, let's do this."
To be fair, it may well be that the Indian conception of marriage makes sense, in the context. And their divorce rate is lower. But that may be because you have to wait 15 years, and risk being killed by your husband or his relatives.
Well, it appears that a bride in India gave her man a pop quiz. He failed, and she bailed.
(The quiz was, "What is 15 plus 6?" His answer, "17," is indeed a disqualification for someone who claimed to have gone to college. UNLESS, I should note, the person went to college at an "elite" U.S. school and majored in any of the "Indignation Studies" curricula.)
Just as a lagniappe, the story also mentions a different wedding, where the groom had a seizure and the bride asked for volunteers. I wonder how that went: "Look, I got the dress, and the henna, and Dad paid for the feast. It would be a shame to waste it. Anybody wanna step up here? You? Can you do simple addition problems? Okay, let's do this."
To be fair, it may well be that the Indian conception of marriage makes sense, in the context. And their divorce rate is lower. But that may be because you have to wait 15 years, and risk being killed by your husband or his relatives.
2 comments:
Baltimore COLTS, not Orioles.
Regarding the second wedding, I believe Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution) blogged that this represented a challenge to the sunk cost fallacy.
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