# Life is good, or: the Long Wait is over. :) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2004, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003 "2004-08-09T09:44:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/41 "2004-08-11T19:30:24Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > The thing that kills me about interracial marriages is that who freaking cares if someone is one color or another? It’s hard enough to find companionship and love in one color, why not branch out and increase your odds? > > Those that are bigots about it all haven’t found true love in any favor (let alone the vanilla world they live in) and that is just sad. > > Don’t we all deserve to be wonderfully happy driving that special someone nuts down the road of life? Absolutely, and furthermore, doesn’t it make life a little more interesting? Not to say that same-race couples are boring, by any means–I mean, ultimately, it depends on the people, and God knows that **Skip** and I have been known to choose an evening at home eating hot dogs and crashing out at 9 pm over an invitation to the Provocative-Film-O-The-Moment (or some such mind-expanding activity)–but it just seems to me that you can learn so much more by, as you say, “branching out”, whether it be through marriage, friendship, or a shared Mary Kay experience. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/42 "2004-08-11T19:42:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Then we met the racist Texan dumbass asshole from hell Plenty of those from other places, too. Though in all fairness, the Texan variety is particularly loud and obnoxious. 😛 Congrats on impending connubial bliss. A wise man once said, “We’re all the same color when the lights go out.” ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/43 "2004-08-11T19:46:32Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > She’s more into… I don’t know. Details? Little decorative gadgets and such. And rugs. > > And anything with a zebra pattern. :eek: 😃 I understand that **FCM** has some lovely linoleum and wallpaper remnants you can snatch up for a song that might please your new bride. 😃 😃 😃 I’m going to Vegas on Sunday for the first time in my life. Hmmmmmmmmmmm… Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/44 "2004-08-11T20:00:00Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I’m going to Vegas on Sunday for the first time in my life. Hmmmmmmmmmmm… > > Cartooniverse Takin’ anyone with ya? ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/45 "2004-08-11T20:07:14Z")
Congrats, you wild and crazy kids. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/46 "2004-08-11T22:48:02Z")
\ Danged’ furriners, man. They all come over here and scoop up the sexy wimmin. What we’re s’posed to do, huh? Danged’ furriners, man. \ ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/47 "2004-08-11T23:00:02Z")
> [@auntie em](#): > > Takin’ anyone with ya? Nope. I’m guessin’, it’s not February 29th so I won’t be gettin’ hitched. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/48 "2004-08-12T04:56:04Z")
> [@auntie em](#): > > Absolutely, and furthermore, doesn’t it make life a little more interesting? Not to say that same-race couples are boring, by any means–I mean, ultimately, it depends on the people, and God knows that **Skip** and I have been known to choose an evening at home eating hot dogs and crashing out at 9 pm over an invitation to the Provocative-Film-O-The-Moment (or some such mind-expanding activity)–but it just seems to me that you can learn so much more by, as you say, “branching out”, whether it be through marriage, friendship, or a shared Mary Kay experience. For the record–and just to make sure we’re all clear on this–I don’t sell Mary Kay. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/49 "2004-08-12T07:40:00Z")
Well, of course not. No righteous white boy would sell MK. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/50 "2004-08-12T07:52:43Z")
My sincerest congrats to Heloise and Coldfire. I am a sucker for happy endings. Hubby and I couldn’t have taken a bumpier road to the altar (the judge as it is), and we couldn’t be happier that we made it. We have promised that this will indeed be ‘till death do us part’. So we either die holding hands when we are very old or we go down like in that movie War of the Roses. 🙂 May you two be as happy as we are. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/51 "2004-08-12T12:40:57Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > Well, of course not. No righteous white boy would sell MK. 😉 Exactly. See, this is why I welcome you to the Interracial Club; it’s good to have another Cracka understand my feelings on weighty, important matters such as these. By the way, I didn’t say it before (so caught up was I in my clarification), but congrats! It’s good to see a happy twosome actually not have to leave one another after a week or so. Now you can bother each other forever and ever and ever and ever… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/52 "2004-08-12T12:47:14Z")
Another substantial advantage of being in the Interracial Club[sup]TM[/sup] is that everybody thinks I am, as they colloquially say, one bad mofo all of a sudden. I am down with it, as it were. I am quite fly, for a white guy. So, if you need this cracka’s opinion on something, you just axe, OK? 😃 [sub]Maybe I can persuade my wife to relate the “What does bling-bling mean?” story. That one’s a crowd pleaser.[/sub] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/53 "2004-08-12T12:52:02Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > Another substantial advantage of being in the Interracial Club[sup]TM[/sup] is that everybody thinks I am, as they colloquially say, one bad mofo all of a sudden. I am down with it, as it were. I am quite fly, for a white guy. > 😉 But do you have a little plastic statue of a Black Power fist? **Skip** has one. It even has a sticker on it that says, “Right On!” I got it at the garage sale of an elderly white man. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/54 "2004-08-12T13:03:45Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > Another substantial advantage of being in the Interracial Club[sup]TM[/sup] is that everybody thinks I am, as they colloquially say, one bad mofo all of a sudden. I am down with it, as it were. I am quite fly, for a white guy. So, if you need this cracka’s opinion on something, you just axe, OK? 😃 > > [sub]Maybe I can persuade my wife to relate the “What does bling-bling mean?” story. That one’s a crowd pleaser.[/sub] > 😉 Wait, wait… you get to be “one bad mofo”? :: Looks at membership card :: Damnit! All it says here, ironically enough, is that my only title is “slave” to her whims. I’m gonna file a complaint to the union 'bout this. On the other hand, she did love me enough to buy me [one of these](http://home.kc.rr.com/skipmagic/funimages/righton.jpg). It’s proudly displayed on my desk at work. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/55 "2004-08-12T13:03:52Z")
> [@](#): > > everybody thinks I am, as they colloquially say, one bad mofo all of a sudden Yeah, and that XJ600 _really_ makes you a badass! 😛 [sub]Incidentally, mine was serviced yesterday. 78,000 miles, and it still has 160 psi compression on all cylinders! 🙂 [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/56 "2004-08-12T13:04:57Z")
> [@auntie em](#): > > But do you have a little plastic statue of a Black Power fist? **Skip** has one. It even has a sticker on it that says, “Right On!” > > I got it at the garage sale of an elderly white man. 😃 Lookee at that! Great minds and all… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/57 "2004-08-12T13:57:01Z")
Oh, suuuuuure. The _“Look I’m not a racist because I have some weird 60’s Black Empowerment thing on my desk!”_-routine. How transparent! Now wonder they wouldn’t make you a bad mofo. 😉 Johnny, I always knew you were running on all cilinders, but it’s good to know you perform well under pressure too. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 12, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/58 "2004-08-12T14:56:45Z")
Does this Interracial Club have a sekrit Complicated Handshake? Do you drive a low rider? [Ferris Bueller’s Theme Song] oooooooooooooooooh YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH [/FBTS] ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/59 "2004-08-12T16:32:03Z")
Hehe. Hubby is a pale face from up in Denmark, I am from the Caribbean and sport a fashionable year-round tan. There is a lingering suspission amongst friends and family that he married me to save money on tanning booths for his future children. He’s OK for a white guy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003/60 "2004-08-12T19:55:47Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > He’s OK for a white guy. 😉 He needs to become a Doper ( unless he is one already ) **just** so he can use that as a sig line !!! Ahh, love is in the air. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-good-or-the-long-wait-is-over/259003.md?page=4)