# Yet another gay marriage thread: mine! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205 "2011-10-19T23:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/41 "2011-10-20T04:54:21Z")
Holds up bags of bird food for **not what you’d expect**. You need to move into the 21st century. OMG, you guys are soooo cute together. I hope that in 50 years, one of those pics will be on your hospital bed as you close your eyes for the last time. And for the record, I liked both of the ties. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/42 "2011-10-20T05:10:18Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/43 "2011-10-20T05:32:13Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > What does the caption mean on that one picture of the tie? "75 year old vacuum salesman from Topeka? Is one of you from Topeka? But you are obviously both younger than 75 years old. > > Reason I ask is that I’m from Topeka, Kansas. **Mr. Mallard** and I have very different senses of style. He has a good eye and likes keeping up with the world, while I just like green and / or quirky things. I was down in Washington running errands, and wanted to get a tie. I spent an hour choosing a nice shirt and tie, and then skyped him from the McDonald’s parking lot to show him. "Well, it’s not what I would have chosen. . . " he said. So I went away, had lunch, and realized that although I disagreed about the tie, he had a point about the shirt. So I took them back (the tie also had a stain) and looked at several hundred other ties. I wanted something **between** “corporate drone” and “Jerry Garcia,” surprisingly hard to find. Finally I found one I really loved at JC Penney. When I brought it back home, I was already a little insecure and we had a little pre-wedding-tension moment (=fight). In frustration, he said, “it’s fine, but it looks like something a 75-year-old vacuum cleaner salesman from Topeka would wear.” He apologized, sort of, by saying that he’d never actually been to Topeka! Afterwards we thought the whole thing was really funny, and so that’s how I think of the tie. We found the shirt for it together the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/44 "2011-10-20T05:35:20Z")
> [@moejoe](#): > > Best wishes and a thousand blessings to you both! > > So…how was the cake? No rice (or birdseed): it was a very simple wedding, just us and two old friends as witnesses. The cake was supplied by the restaurant where we married. We had lunch (burger for me, halibut burger for the Mr.), and then they brought us a strawberry / mascarpone / phyllo thing, which was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/45 "2011-10-20T06:13:01Z")
Congratulations! May you have as many years of happiness as there are stars in the sky! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/46 "2011-10-20T06:16:29Z")
Yaaaaaaay! I just gave you a round of applause from my room 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/47 "2011-10-20T06:19:31Z")
Congratulations! You both look very happy. While I may not agree with your choice of attire (or either tie) I will defend to the death your right to be legally married while wearing them. May your tie be the worst thing you ever fight about. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/48 "2011-10-20T06:46:01Z")
congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/49 "2011-10-20T10:05:45Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Holds up bags of bird food for **not what you’d expect**. **You need to move into the 21st century**. > > OMG, you guys are soooo cute together. > > I hope that in 50 years, one of those pics will be on your hospital bed as you close your eyes for the last time. > > And for the record, I liked both of the ties. I guess my age is showing. I totally forgot about bubbles. I should have said bubbles. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/50 "2011-10-20T10:35:38Z")
Congratulations! You two looked so happy together. And I thought both ties were cute. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/51 "2011-10-20T11:33:02Z")
Heartfelt congratulations! I wish you a lifetime of happiness together! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/52 "2011-10-20T11:52:01Z")
I’m afraid I disapprove of this strenuously. You’ve seriously damaged the sanctity of the institution of marriage by your actions. I mean, really. Wearing that tie. What were you thinking? Congratulations on the actual getting-married thing though. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/53 "2011-10-20T12:34:41Z")
Wonderful news! and I _like_ the tie. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/54 "2011-10-20T12:48:40Z")
Congratulations! I think both ties are absolutely hideous and you must wear them on each and every anniversary. Perhaps in even years you can swap! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/55 "2011-10-20T13:13:44Z")
[Wet blanket]You know this means that you have to start fighting tooth and nail, like every other married couple, right…? 😛 [/WB] 😃 Congratulations! (And I have no opinion about the ties. I don’t do ties and I have no fashion sense… so… [yes, I’m straight. Why do you ask? :o :)]) ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/56 "2011-10-20T14:26:44Z")
I thought your tie was gorgeous with the purple shirt. Very drake-like. Mallards mate for life right? Congratulations! ---
**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:** [October 20, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/57 "2011-10-20T17:03:34Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > \ the US federal gov’t doesn’t recognize it at all. Yet! So you’ll just have to stay in Canada with all the rest of the good-hearted people. 🙂 (I like your tie just fine.) ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/58 "2011-10-20T18:21:45Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > I thought your tie was gorgeous with the purple shirt. Very drake-like. I agree. It’s like his fiance was dragon him to the altar. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/59 "2011-10-20T19:40:14Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > I thought your tie was gorgeous with the purple shirt. Very drake-like. Mallards mate for life right? Congratulations! You know, the mallard-colouring didn’t even occur to me, though it should have. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-gay-marriage-thread-mine/600205/60 "2011-10-20T19:42:17Z")
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