Me and the fella are living in sin (sweet, sweet tasty sin), and have no intention of changing that any time soon. Still, it’s nice to know what not put in a wedding anniversary ad.
For example, you may not want to fill it with a ridiculously long sexist ramble about your ancestors and how much you don’t know about genetics. Like in this ad that ran in today’s (11/25/12) Joplin Globe.
This is an actual anniversary notice that appeared in today’s paper. C/O the Joplin Globe.
Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Strobel, for being an example. And for finding each other, so no poor innocent schmuck got into a relationship with either one of you and your evo-psych bullshit.
Fun Fact: this isn’t the first time the Strobels have ran this anniversary ad- I saw it several years ago (and also this year, which is why the link below goes to the 18th). The only reason I didn’t blog about it then was because the ad was TOO GODDAMN BIG for my scanner. It’s over tabloid size- 11.75″ x 16.5″, by my lady brains- and it fills up over two thirds of a page! Thanks, Joplin Globe E-Edition, for doing the hard work for me!
EDIT: I just remembered my pal Jeremiah Tucker also blogged about this ad during one of its previous runs. Go look!
The oddity of the content of this thing is exceeded only by the oddity of wanting to share it with the public so badly that they would spend a lot of money to do so. Robert Ripley would have been interested.
The people need to know just how awesome guys are at solving Rubik’s Cubes.
I do not think you are giving it enough credit. It is not just sexist, to my reading of it, it is also homophobic.
No kidding. What a couple of assholes.