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Subject: surreal romantic facts
Date: 28 Oct 2004 16:08:45 -0700
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http://www.fallingskyhazard.com/catalog.htm
Women's hemlines go up as the economy gets better. They stay put when
nothing happens in commerce. They go down when business drops off.
Nobody knows why, evidently (maybe cuz the boys have more money to
spend?), but the record indicates the pattern dates back more than 65
years.
Only 14% of brides in the USA are engaged to the men they actually
marry more for than one year. The length of the average engagement is
six months. Engagements that are considerably longer tend to raise the
odds against happy matrimony.
The heart is the most common symbol of romantic love. Ancient cultures
believed the human soul lived in the heart. Others thought it to be
the source of emotion and intelligence. Some believed the heart
embodied a man's truth, strength and nobility. The heart may be
associated with love because the ancient Greeks believed it was the
target of Eros, known as Cupid to the Romans. Anyone shot in the heart
by one of Cupid's arrows would fall hopelessly in love. Because the
heart is so closely linked to love, it's red color is thought to be
the most romantic.
The word "honeymoon" first appeared in the 16th century. The honey is
a reference to the sweetness of a new marriage and the moon is not a
reference to the lunar-based month, but rather a bitter acknowledgment
that this sweetness, like a full moon, would quickly fade.
An ordinance in Carmel, California, makes it unlawful for a lady to
take a bath in a business office.
In 1839 Charles Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgewood. They had 10
children together, 7 surviving to adulthood, and lived a long and
happy life together, untouched by the slightest hint of poverty or
scandal.
The separation between media mogul Ted Turner and his wife, Jane
Fonda, was prompted in part by Fonda's embrace of "born-again"
evangelical Christianity.
Circus performer Pete Robinson was remarkable for two reasons. First,
he was a living skeleton, weighing only fifty-eight pounds. The other
was that he married Bunny Smith, a woman who weighed 467 pounds. Now,
there were plenty of marriages of extremes in show business, between
giants and midgets, fat ladies and human skeletons, but most were
either faked or short-lived publicity stunts. This one, however, was
real and lasted many years. People with different characteristics,
physical makeups, lifeviews, mindsets, and philosophies can be
amazingly attracted to each other.
http://www.fallingskyhazard.com/catalog.htm
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