# Before I ask someone to marry me I check with my kids. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136 "2020-03-24T00:29:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/1 "2020-03-24T00:29:53Z")
“But Blossom is my age!” "Blossom may be, but Mayim Bialik is seven years older than you. " What makes me think I have a chance? On her YouTube channel she often remarks about the sad emptiness of her ring finger. I’m sad and empty and would fit right in. But I went to Plan B, “Robin on the WGN Morning News often remarks on her romantic difficulties. I could ask her.” “She’d make a terrible stepmom.” “Why would you say that? All she does is lie on the sofa and watch Hallmark movies. Remind you of someone?” “Besides Mom? Me.” “And me. And my fiance.” “See? She’d make a fine stepmom. A lousy wife, but with her Local TV Star money I’d cry all the way to the bank.” ---
**Author:** ![Calavera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calavera/32/70_2.png) [@Calavera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calavera)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/2 "2020-03-24T00:33:42Z")
Make more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/3 "2020-03-24T00:50:41Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > “But Blossom is my age!” > > "Blossom may be, but Mayim Bialik is seven years older than you. " 7 years older? In what universe? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/4 "2020-03-24T01:17:34Z")
Oldest is 35. Mayim is, or was when she made that video, 42. Do the arithmetic. The subject was implied, based on the reader having read the title. I asked my family. Naturally, a family member replied. Given that the family member called her Blossom, an easy and correct conclusion would be that the responder is female and roughly Mayim’s age. It’s easy and you needn’t know anything about my family. You people make everything harder than it needs to be. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/5 "2020-03-24T01:30:37Z")
This thread makes no sense. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/6 "2020-03-24T01:36:45Z")
Why don’t you go for that nice Winnie Cooper girl next door? She’s 45 now. Still too young? Phoebe Buffay is 56. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/7 "2020-03-24T01:37:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > This thread makes no sense. And your point is…? These days, NOTHING makes sense. We have an idiot President who wants to prescribe drugs for COVID based on a magazine article he read. “I’m a smart guy and it sounds good to me!” **dropzone** makes more sense than THAT. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/8 "2020-03-24T02:09:28Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Why don’t you go for that nice Winnie Cooper girl next door? She’s 45 now. > > Still too young? Phoebe Buffay is 56. I have a (married) friend who looks like Lisa Kudrow, except Kudrow can only wish that she will look that good or young when she is 65. > [@VOW](#): > > And your point is…? > > These days, NOTHING makes sense. We have an idiot President who wants to prescribe drugs for COVID based on a magazine article he read. “I’m a smart guy and it sounds good to me!” > > **dropzone** makes more sense than THAT. > ~VOW Um, thanks? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/9 "2020-03-24T02:24:18Z")
I just googled, and Punky Brewster is _not_ available. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/10 "2020-03-24T06:26:22Z")
A swing and a miss, D. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/11 "2020-03-24T09:19:54Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > A swing and a miss, D. Shouldn’t that be ‘A swing and a Mrs.’? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/12 "2020-03-24T09:28:31Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > A swing and a miss, D. There. Baseball jargon I understand. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/13 "2020-03-24T10:52:03Z")
Before this thread dies a deserved death, I need to make it clear that I wasn’t proposing to a teen from a 90s TV show but to Dr Mayim Bialik, age 45 it turns out. A perfectly cromulent age and the same age as Danica McKellar, Erdös Number 4, who is not Winnie Cooper. I’m not a pervert. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/14 "2020-03-24T12:01:20Z")
So then there’s hope for me and Micky Dolenz? I mean apart from the fact that both of us are married… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/15 "2020-03-24T14:53:38Z")
That is easily fixed. Marrying Jones or Tork would be more difficult. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/16 "2020-03-24T16:45:50Z")
I’m still holding out for Stevie Nicks. Step one: she one day discovers that I exist. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/17 "2020-03-24T17:10:44Z")
Her? Have I told you why I hate my father? Some years ago I learned that Stevie’s dad was an executive at Greyhound, as my father had been. Quick math concluded that Mr Nicks was known around the dinner table as That Damned Nicks. Dropdad’s inability to get along with anybody ruined my life again by preventing me from getting shut down by a future superstar. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/18 "2020-03-24T17:16:47Z")
Made perfect sense to me, except for the part about _why_ one would want to get married again. 😕 Nevertheless, good luck! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/19 "2020-03-26T04:12:08Z")
Yeah, it makes sense to me, too. It’s just idle musings imagining if a couple of women he sees on TV would be wife material. He discussed it with his kids, and wanted to share. I actually don’t get what was hard to get on this one. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-i-ask-someone-to-marry-me-i-check-with-my-kids/850136/20 "2020-03-26T22:02:59Z")
Some people prefer to be clueless. You should be used to them **BigT**!