# Communication, marriage and compromise **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514 "2003-10-25T17:15:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/21 "2003-10-28T00:30:53Z")
See, you might have had a chance if you hadn’t started this thread. Now you’ve made it a matter of pride for her never to say that phrase. My guess is you’ll hear Eddie Murphy say it to you before your wife does. The best you can hope for now is to just record her talking without her knowledge, and then piece that phrase together from individual words, ransom note style. When you do, I highly recommend putting it on the web for us all to enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/22 "2003-10-28T06:21:22Z")
You realise you’ve just set it up so that Ginger will never utter the word ‘penis’ again, just in case there’s a tape recorder handy, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/23 "2003-10-28T07:06:28Z")
You know, of course, this means war. As a man, it is your duty to escalate this to stupid, pointless levels, breaking her down with zany hijinks. Make sure to let me know how it goes, so I can write the screenplay. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/24 "2003-10-28T10:19:17Z")
Hey, look at it this way: She _could_ say it with a German accent and substitute a critical word for a soundalike: “Ze royal peniss ist _klein_ (small), your highness.” I agree that your only recourse is increasingly zany hijinks. Before you know it you’ll be carving up a dead horse in the dean’s office with a chainsaw. As a last resort, you could try prefacing your wife uttering your desired phrase with those final touching 8 words from the infamous [duckjob](http://new.wavlist.com/humor/001/duckjob.wav) WAV file: “Don’t move. I’ll go get you a towel.” Good luck to you and the little king. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/25 "2003-10-28T17:19:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tavalla \* > \*\*You realise you’ve just set it up so that Ginger will never utter the word ‘penis’ again, just in case there’s a tape recorder handy, don’t you? \*\* \ Excellent. \ [sub]Apparently, I have a deep-seated hatred of **Weirddave** … Who knew?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/26 "2003-10-28T18:03:56Z")
Gingy, **I’ll do one better** " Dave (sic), is it suppose to be this soft?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/27 "2003-10-28T18:23:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*You know, of course, this means war. As a man, it is your duty to escalate this to stupid, pointless levels, breaking her down with zany hijinks. Make sure to let me know how it goes, so I can write the screenplay. \*\* This has gone way beyond the need for zany hijinks. This clearly calls for madcap misadventures. We’re talking war. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/28 "2003-10-28T19:57:22Z")
“Dear, remind me: what was that phrase I used to want you to say?” ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/29 "2003-10-28T21:58:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*greck, dear. I am the wife in question. Perhaps you didn’t know that? \*\* I knew. Did any of what I said ring true? The more I think about it, the more I’m guessing it’s about a little power game between the two of you. You’re not playing along because you think he’s partially laughing at you, or using you as a prop. I personally think it would be hilarious if you reported the royal penis to be clean from time to time, but not at the expense of your equal participation in the marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/30 "2003-10-28T22:15:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > **This has gone way beyond the need for zany hijinks. This clearly calls for madcap misadventures. We’re talking war.** Too right! We must assemble a wacky band of friends to help him out. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/31 "2003-10-29T02:20:22Z")
> [@](#): > > The more I think about it, the more I’m guessing it’s about a little power game between the two of you. You’re not playing along because you think he’s partially laughing at you, or using you as a prop. Nah. It’s because Dave’s a goof. Really. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/32 "2003-10-29T04:42:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by greck \* > \*\*I knew. Did any of what I said ring true? > > The more I think about it, the more I’m guessing it’s about a little power game between the two of you. You’re not playing along because you think he’s partially laughing at you, or using you as a prop. > > I personally think it would be hilarious if you reported the royal penis to be clean from time to time, but not at the expense of your equal participation in the marriage. \*\* No. Absolutely nothing you said rang true. I’m frankly surprised anyone could even think this was anything other than a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/33 "2003-10-29T07:43:40Z")
greck, Dude, this is all in fun. Seriously. I would point you to the thread where my dasterdly wife prohibited me from getting a Newell Shredder, but that thread was lost in the winter of our lost content. I apreciate your input, but you’re reading this as wayyyy more serious than it is. That being said, I think the other posters are right. We need zany hijinks and madcap misadventures. Help me think of these hijinks and misadventures. It can be an online version of _Airplane_!! First, I need a multi-cultural group of buddies; Who’s in? I need a Serious Friend From My Youth, A Loner Who Broods, A Woman Whom I’ve Always Lusted After But Never Got With, An All American Boy ( who will die before the end ) And A Token Minority. Who wants to fill these roles, and what adventures will we have? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/34 "2003-10-29T07:47:31Z")
Dave be a man. Tell her if she won’t say she’s not getting anymore sex. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/35 "2003-10-29T07:48:34Z")
Or any more. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/36 "2003-10-29T08:01:19Z")
One small flaw in your plan: What about me getting anymore sex from her? I kind of like it. 😛 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/37 "2003-10-29T09:07:46Z")
Yes, but if you had a modicum of strategic thought, you wouldn’t have admitted that 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/38 "2003-10-29T12:57:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\*That being said, I think the other posters are right. We need zany hijinks and madcap misadventures. Help me think of these hijinks and misadventures. It can be an online version of _Airplane_!! First, I need a multi-cultural group of buddies; Who’s in? I need a Serious Friend From My Youth, A Loner Who Broods, A Woman Whom I’ve Always Lusted After But Never Got With, An All American Boy ( who will die before the end ) And A Token Minority. Who wants to fill these roles, and what adventures will we have? \*\* The best I can offer you is the scientist who invents all sorts of crazy props which somehow end up being exactly what you need in the nick of time. Haj ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/39 "2003-10-29T12:57:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shade \* > \*\*Yes, but if you had a modicum of strategic thought, you wouldn’t have admitted that 😃 \*\* He doesn’t have to admit it. I know it’s a man’s duty to close his eyes and think of England. ---
**Author:** ![GregE625](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b77776/32.png) [@GregE625](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GregE625)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514/40 "2003-10-29T13:59:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*He doesn’t have to admit it. I know it’s a man’s duty to close his eyes and think of England. \*\* OK, you two are WAY to kinky for me! LOL And Dave, how can any man keep up while thinking of ENGLAND? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/communication-marriage-and-compromise/209514.md?page=3)