# Dewey cheats them and how

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewey-cheats-them-and-how/155252
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 15, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewey-cheats-them-and-how/155252 "2003-02-15T13:39:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewey-cheats-them-and-how/155252/61 "2003-02-16T12:43:25Z")

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It’d work a charm at my place. My standards are lower than my g/f’s. Just as long as I’m happy to let the washing up get as high as it can without getting in the way when I try to fill the kettle, I’m willing to let the law of the jungle dictate. 😃

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### Author: ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewey-cheats-them-and-how/155252/62 "2003-02-16T20:01:40Z")

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My wife won’t let me get away with any of that. She’s quite the damned statist tyrant… 😃

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### Author: ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewey-cheats-them-and-how/155252/63 "2003-02-16T20:03:46Z")

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Wives are entitled. It’s the Principle of Noncoherence 😃

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### Author: ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewey-cheats-them-and-how/155252/64 "2003-02-16T20:15:20Z")

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Lib, with all the citing of that principle you’ve been doing, I’d swear **Edlyn** changed her username:D

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### Author: ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewey-cheats-them-and-how/155252/65 "2003-02-16T20:55:31Z")

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Huh? 😕

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### Author: ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewey-cheats-them-and-how/155252/66 "2003-02-16T21:01:32Z")

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Er, was a joke. No harm meant;)

[sub]At least one of us, and possibly both, needs to get out for a while and do something other than typing at a screen:)[/sub]

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