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1 posted on 12/05/2012 10:23:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; GeronL

Okay...

what is the first wife up to?


2 posted on 12/05/2012 10:24:44 PM PST by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: nickcarraway

Lucky dude!


3 posted on 12/05/2012 10:26:06 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: nickcarraway
Polygamy became widespread in the Arabian Peninsula following the discovery of oil which turned the desert region into one of the richest areas.

Say what?

I'm thinking that polystupid was normal before oil was discovered.

/johnny

4 posted on 12/05/2012 10:26:12 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: nickcarraway; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

Well, the best madams have often been women!


9 posted on 12/05/2012 10:30:05 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: nickcarraway

If we had polygamy, I’m pretty sure my wife would insist on picking out my 2nd wife. I don’t think she’d shop at a high school, though.


10 posted on 12/05/2012 10:31:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: nickcarraway
Well, that means the menage a trois will be legal.
12 posted on 12/05/2012 10:34:35 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: nickcarraway

pictures might reveal a great deal here...?


15 posted on 12/05/2012 10:40:10 PM PST by faithhopecharity (--)
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To: nickcarraway
What a thoughtful wife to surprise him with a school girl.


16 posted on 12/05/2012 10:42:47 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe, under their laws and “culture”, she figured to best way to keep him out of her bed, while keeping her parts intact & in the right places, was to make sure he’d stay in Wife Number-2’s instead

Paying the wedding expenses was her gift to herself for getting rid of him the best way she could.


18 posted on 12/05/2012 10:46:36 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: nickcarraway

actually, I’ve heard of similar cases. If you want a second wife, often you don’t want quarrels so you ask your wife for help.

So why marry when you are not in love? I don’t know the Saudi culture, but in Africa, traditionally a man cannot have intercourse with his wife when she is pregnant or breast feeding and sex for women stopped at menopause... often a man would marry another wife, often her sister or relative so the wives wouldn’t quarrel.

In poor families, often a man would marry sisters or relatives so the wives could help each other in the work. And we had one man who married a wife every time he opened a store. Our African nurses explained why: You could have an easy job running the store (instead of working in the fields), you got plenty to eat, and a new dress every year.

Polygamy was one way to cope in the days when poverty meant starvation for single unmarried women.

It didn’t always work: Look at Jacob’s problems. And then there is the African proverb: Poor man, five wives, all pregnant...might as well be single.

Also, when men died in war, or went away in wars, leaving a lot of unmarriageable ladies, it also gave the unmarried girls a chance to marry.

The problem with polygamy is twofold: First, despite everything, women do get jealous.

Second: When there are almost equal numbers of men and women, often there is a woman shortage for wives for poorer men.

So like many customs that made sense in the past, they don’t have a justification in the modern world.


30 posted on 12/05/2012 11:57:05 PM PST by LadyDoc
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To: nickcarraway

I thought he threw an actual bombshell at his wife. Stranger things have happened.


35 posted on 12/06/2012 12:35:56 AM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: nickcarraway

First wife paying for all expenses... Sounds like hubby is great in bed ;D!


38 posted on 12/06/2012 4:22:05 AM PST by poobear (Socialism, in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: nickcarraway

Muzzie women are allowed to have money?


40 posted on 12/06/2012 4:46:59 AM PST by CPOSharky (zero slogan: Expect less, pay more. (apologies to Target))
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To: nickcarraway; Revolting cat!
Be careful about that third choice...


61 posted on 12/06/2012 12:07:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: nickcarraway; Morgana

I bet the wife and the former student have a thing for each other


62 posted on 12/06/2012 12:40:00 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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