# "Marry Our Daughter" -- Please tell me this is a joke ... . **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 10, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626 "2007-09-10T00:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/1 "2007-09-10T00:04:07Z")
While checking out the latest at [Dark Roasted Blend](http://www.darkroastedblend.com/), I stumbled on [Marry Our Daughter](http://www.marryourdaughter.com/). Ick, ick, ick. It’s a fundamentalist matchmaking site where Christian parents can post pics and bios of their teenage daughters (some as young as 13) along with how much dowry they’re worth. Here’s one fifteen-year-old girl’s bio: “Kimberly was raised from birth knowing that her place in life was to be a good wife and mother and she might as well get started on that now. She knows God put her on Earth to serve her husband like it says in the Bible and we’ve made sure she knows exactly how to do that.” Please, someone, tell me this is the most deadpan parody site ever. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/2 "2007-09-10T00:09:00Z")
That’s disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/3 "2007-09-10T00:10:28Z")
[Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/marryourdaughter.asp) is doubtful. It positively reeks of “hoax site.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/4 "2007-09-10T00:10:48Z")
Find one thats over 18, with a butt-load of money to back it up and post that link. Then I’ll click. Till then, nah. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/5 "2007-09-10T00:14:36Z")
Hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/6 "2007-09-10T00:14:43Z")
It’s fake as fuck. No actual service like that would have such high-quality webpage design. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/7 "2007-09-10T00:23:26Z")
Oh, come ON. Took me a third of a second to realize it was a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/8 "2007-09-10T00:30:30Z")
Most amusing joke. As someone on the snopes board pointed out, age of consent laws vary from state to state. Serious question though, would something like this be legal, assuming all the girls were of legal age to marry in their states? It seems like it shouldn’t be but I can’t think of any law they’d be breaking. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/9 "2007-09-10T00:31:20Z")
Love the testimonials: > [@](#): > > Our 15 year old daughter Mary wasn’t very popular and did nothing but mope around the house bringing everybody down, so we decided to marry her off through your site. Now our house is a lot cheerier and we love our new swimming pool and Jaccuzi! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/10 "2007-09-10T00:34:18Z")
I thought, “joke.” So I went to the forms. Huh. They sure seem serious. I went through the various sections, becoming disturbingly convinced that someone had managed to convince a bunch of Anglos to embrace bride-price instead of dowry. Until finally I found the “Testimonials.” Good Lord. I’m 80% positive it’s a joke. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/11 "2007-09-10T00:37:05Z")
> [@](#): > > “At first we were worried that Janine was too young to get married, but then her new husband bought her a house and a car and jewelry and the money we got let us buy a house for ourselves. Getting out of the trailer park at our age was the best thing that ever happened to us, and it’s all thanks to Marry Our Daughter!” Where do I sign up? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/12 "2007-09-10T00:42:30Z")
The testimonials are a mistake if they want to fool people. They pushed me into “fake” terrirtory pretty much immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/13 "2007-09-10T00:46:07Z")
I see Gabriella has the lowest “bride price” on the opening page. It’s easy to see why she’s been marked down: “she graduated high school a year early and intends to go to college so her husband would have to be okay with that”. Plus she’s already 17 - by that age they’ve started to get minds of their own. ---
**Author:** ![bubble\_pop\_electric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@bubble\_pop\_electric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubble_pop_electric)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/14 "2007-09-10T00:46:58Z")
Somebody could fill out the proposal form and see what happens. But yeah, the testimonials are pretty fake-sounding. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/15 "2007-09-10T00:58:16Z")
My 12 year old niece is a real spoiled pain in the ass - how much do you think her parents could get for her? Never mind - they can afford their own pools and cars, so they don’t need to [del]sell[/del] marry off their daugher anyway. (The Google ads I’m getting are “Date and Screw My Wife,” “Make Him Fall In Love,” and “666 - Mark of the Beast” - I think Google’s in on it!) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/16 "2007-09-10T01:03:37Z")
[QUOTE=bubble pop electric] Somebody could fill out the proposal form and see what happens. [/QUOTE] “Wow. Stone Philips. I wasn’t expecting you. You look older in person…” ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/17 "2007-09-10T01:04:45Z")
[QUOTE=bubble pop electric] But yeah, the testimonials are pretty fake-sounding. [/QUOTE] So are the names on the contact page. Jarrod Hightower? Bill Wallington? Roger Mandervan? Gimme a break. They sound like names straight out of a bad romance novel. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/18 "2007-09-10T01:04:55Z")
> [@](#): > > “My mother thought I was getting ‘too frisky” and that I had to get married right away before I lost my purity to some high school boy. Marry Our Daughter found me a husband and my parents were able to keep their house and pay off my mother’s medical bills. I was so glad I could help them, and being married at my age (I’m 16 now) has a lot of advantages, like my own credit card!" Personally, this is my favorite. A small part of me wants to propose to one of them just to see what happens, but on the small chance that it’s legit, I’m taking no chances. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/19 "2007-09-10T02:05:11Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I see Gabriella has the lowest “bride price” on the opening page. It’s easy to see why she’s been marked down: “she graduated high school a year early and intends to go to college so her husband would have to be okay with that”. Plus she’s already 17 - by that age they’ve started to get minds of their own. [/QUOTE] But for less than half of what she’s going for, you can have Samantha, who “can hunt, fish and shoot and drive with the best of them, quote sports stats from any team you’d like to mention, and can hold her own in a cussing contest.” ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/20 "2007-09-10T02:25:05Z")
The domain was registered this year and supposedly they already have testimonials? It’s as real as the Bonsai Kitten. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626.md?page=2)