# I'm the luckiest man in the world. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781 "2004-01-16T16:09:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/81 "2004-01-18T01:42:09Z")
Outstanding, **Coldy** ~! May you and **Heloise** have a long and wonderful life together. May you always remain best friends and honeymooners. šŸ™‚ And yes, photos are a must. ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/82 "2004-01-18T02:31:40Z")
Congratulations, **Coldfire**. The board is a wonderful place and Iā€™m glad that you found someone here (as I did). I hope you are both very happy together (and donā€™t spend too much cash in Las Vegas). ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/83 "2004-01-18T03:19:26Z")
A Canadian Doper congradulating an American Doper and a Dutch Doper on getting marriedā€¦kinda like the whole Board in miniature, eh? šŸ™‚ I wish you both many happy years together. I hope youā€™re both still just as happy and in love when your, um, ( insert quick math calculation), Twelve-and-a-half-Year Anniversery rolls around! (Thatā€™s Fifty, right?! šŸ˜‰ ) Love to both of you, zoogirl. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/84 "2004-01-18T03:30:43Z")
Congratulations! šŸ™‚ šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/85 "2004-01-18T20:08:02Z")
Thank you, everyone, for your wonderful thoughts and wishes for us. Iā€™m so happy, my heart always feels ready to burst. **Coldfire** says heā€™s the luckiest man, which goes to show that he doesnā€™t realize how much he means to me. Iā€™m the one who is amazed that she found someone like him, and I hope I can show him how happy he makes me for the rest of our lives. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/86 "2004-01-18T20:12:14Z")
Letā€™s play the ā€œNo, **I** love **you** more!ā€ game and gross everybody out, shall we? šŸ˜ƒ **RickQ** : _lose_ money in Vegas? I intend on hitting the jackpot in more ways than one, if at all possible. šŸ˜‰ **JavaMaven1** : bring it on! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/87 "2004-01-18T20:14:19Z")
Another one coming outta ā€œlong time no seeā€ status to say: congratulations to you both! I wish you all the happiness in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/88 "2004-01-18T20:20:16Z")
Just wanted to add another voice to the chorus wishing you both many happy days together. Congratulations to both of you!!! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/89 "2004-01-18T20:53:49Z")
Congratulations to both of you!! I can tell you, from first hand experience, that as long as you marry the right person, marriage **rocks**! Ours is still rocking after 20 years together and 15 years married! ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/90 "2004-01-18T21:17:07Z")
YIPPEE!!! Wow! Thatā€™s amazingā€¦ Vegas not the wedding šŸ˜ƒ Many, many, many, many, many, ad infinitum happy days to follow you! ---
**Author:** ![Paradoxical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Paradoxical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paradoxical)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/91 "2004-01-18T21:22:41Z")
Coldfire! Itā€™s genius, absolutely genius! The perfect schemeā€¦ANNIVERSARY PRESENTS ONLY ONCE EVERY 4 YEARS! You cheap bastard, great idea! šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/92 "2004-01-18T22:13:45Z")
**Paradoxical** , you may not believe this, but below I shall quote my wife-to-beā€™s exact words after we decided on Leap Day: > [@](#): > > Itā€™s prefect! That way, I can only get mad at you once every four years for forgetting our wedding anniversary! So, while it is true that the Dutch are well known for their cheapness, I hadnā€™t even thought of the economical advantages when my future spouse pointed out the even more obvious bonus. šŸ˜ƒ [sub]Iā€™m pretty sure she wasnā€™t joking. I mean, what woman wants a present _every_ anniversary, _every_ year? As if![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/93 "2004-01-19T04:47:13Z")
Those internet relationships NEVER work out, trust me on this one. And how and why that gorgeous woman would assent to hitching up with a Yurpeen like yourself, I will never know. Best of luck, youā€™ll need it. (I keed, I keed!) ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/94 "2004-01-19T11:56:21Z")
Congratulations! Thatā€™s delightful news. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/95 "2004-01-19T15:26:18Z")
Much congratulations, **Coldfire** & **Heloise**!! Mazel tov! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/96 "2004-01-19T16:20:07Z")
Congratulations, both of you! ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/97 "2004-01-19T16:36:13Z")
> [@Tusculan](#): > > Gefeliciteerd! Hartelijke gelukwensen met jullie huwelijk! And congratulations, too. Van mij ook de beste wensen en van harte gefeliciteerd. All you need to do to make your life perfect now is to build a time machine, go back to July 7, 1974 and somehow make Mr. Taylor swallow his whistle before the twenty-fifth minute. Either that or temporarily disable Gerd Mueller. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/98 "2004-01-20T00:44:57Z")
Damn, you sure know how to hurt a guy, Mycroft. In your defense, your Dutch is too good to be true, especially for a native German. Say, can you pronounce _Scheveningen_? šŸ˜ƒ [sub]For those not in the know: the Germans tried to infiltrate the Dutch resistance in WWII. One (almost) sure fire way was to ask a German to pronounce ā€œScheveningenā€, a coastal town near The Hague. The ā€œschā€ sound is very typical in Dutch, and extremely hard to emulate for a German. And no, Iā€™m not calling Mycroft a Nazi. Heā€™s lived in Holland long enough to appreciate this kind of humour, I do believe. Besides, he brought up the _real_ reason our countries still have trouble seeing eye to eye: the 1974 World Cup, which should have been won by the Dutch. Hell, even Beckenbauer admitted that it should have![/sub] šŸ˜‰ Thanks for all the good wishes, guys! ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/99 "2004-01-20T01:54:15Z")
YAY!!! I love the Straight Dope! > [@Barks' dog food](#): > > I hope **Heloise** understands that you plan to give her anniversary gifts only every fourth year. Oh, no no no. The cool thing about being married on February 29th is you get to celebrate your anniversary on _both_ February 28th _and_ March 1st on the off years. šŸ˜ƒ **withaK** and I are so happy for you! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-luckiest-man-in-the-world/224781/100 "2004-01-20T03:39:58Z")
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