# "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:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**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, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/61 "2007-09-10T18:56:39Z")
[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] I’ll have to check this out later. But the point is (in the extreme case), what fundie-Xian parents would want their daughter to raise her children in a non-Xian faith? [/QUOTE] Isn’t there something about the Jews need to convert either before, during or after the Apocalypse so that they are saved as well? So, if there are no Jews around–no way to save them or for the prophecy to come true. Or something like that. Not realy clear on the details, but then, neither are they. thanks for following the money, **Happy** –it’s all clear to me now. Tis but another Holy scam. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/62 "2007-09-10T19:33:08Z")
[QUOTE=Fern Forest] Here’s their keywords. “preteen, virgin, sex, teens, marriage, marry, slave, matchmaker, bride, mail-order, underage, young, money, naked, child, kids, daughter, teenage, juvenile, escort, buy” [/QUOTE] That’ll bring a lot of traffic their way. But if they’re really interested in topping _any_ search list, they need to consider adding “Russian”, “human growth hormone” and “S’mores”. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/63 "2007-09-10T19:48:48Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] That’ll bring a lot of traffic their way. But if they’re really interested in topping _any_ search list, they need to consider adding “Russian”, “human growth hormone” and “S’mores”. [/QUOTE] and “kittens”! ---
**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:** [September 10, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/64 "2007-09-10T20:00:33Z")
Is any of these girl 18, possess a passport, can clean, babysit and do laundry? I say 30,000 plus food and board is a killer for a long term investment. Actually, for that price I can can get an army of girls to do domestic work here. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/65 "2007-09-10T21:09:01Z")
A fearsome prospect it is, too, as **Big Girl** makes her bid for world domination. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/66 "2007-09-12T00:25:01Z")
[Confirmed as hoax](http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/please-dont-marry-our-daughters/) > [@](#): > > … [MarryOurDaughter.com](http://MarryOurDaughter.com), an outrageous Web site that purports to blithely sell underage girls to older husbands for large dowries. > > The site is a prank. Thank goodness. > > But not everyone is in on the joke. The site has gotten 20 million page views in the last two weeks and now elicits around around a thousand, mostly angry, emails a day. In the last few days, the site’s “publicity director” has also appeared on at least half a dozen talk radio shows around the country, including on Las Vegas (MIX-FM), Houston (KRBE-FM) and Philadelphia (WYSP-FM) and mixed it up with belligerent on-air-personalities and hostile listeners, whom he neglected to let in on the ruse. > > “People get angry so fast they don’t stop to question whether its real,” says the creator of [MarryOurDaughter.com](http://MarryOurDaughter.com), John Ordover, who masqueraded as the site’s fictional publicity director, the unlikely surnamed Roger Mandervan. > > Mr. Ordover is a science-fiction editor with a prankish history and an interest in urban nudism. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/67 "2007-09-12T03:10:04Z")
[QUOTE=catsix] The domain was registered this year and supposedly they already have testimonials? It’s as real as the Bonsai Kitten. [/QUOTE] Only way funnier! (NOT that I’m one of those offended by BK. Just that I think this is hysterical because of how extreme some of those religious conservatives can get when it comes to “courtship”.) ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/68 "2007-09-12T16:36:04Z")
Damn. Nothing in my price range. Guess I’ll have to try the Phillipines. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/69 "2007-09-12T16:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=LonesomePolecat] Damn. Nothing in my price range. Guess I’ll have to try the Phillipines. [/QUOTE] Not necessarily. A bottle of chloroform and a rag can go a long way towards stretching your budget here. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/70 "2007-09-12T16:50:05Z")
Seriously, though, I wonder where they got all those models for the photos? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marry-our-daughter-please-tell-me-this-is-a-joke/418626/71 "2007-09-13T02:39:39Z")
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