Husband's internet date turns out to be his wife

July 19, 2001 9:11 AM   Subscribe

Husband's internet date turns out to be his wife
now i ask you, what are the odds? sooner or later something like this had to happen...
posted by bwg (36 comments total)
 
Does either one of them like Pina Coladas or walks in the rain?
posted by dogwelder at 9:15 AM on July 19, 2001


"If you like pina coladas...and getting caught in the rain...if you're not into health clubs...and you're into champagne..."

Rupert Holmes is gonna love this!
posted by davidmsc at 9:15 AM on July 19, 2001


What I don't understand is why they started fighting. Both knew they were cheating on one another (perhaps not with one another).
posted by Cavatica at 9:21 AM on July 19, 2001


I think it's kind of cute. They're fated for each other -- they even cheat on each other with each other.
posted by jennak at 9:22 AM on July 19, 2001


it would be worse if you went on an internet date and it ended up being your mom.
posted by panopticon at 9:28 AM on July 19, 2001


whoa, dogwelder...we must've had a Vulcan mind-meld going on at 9:15. Can't believe you were thinking about "Howard The Duck" too!
posted by davidmsc at 9:29 AM on July 19, 2001


I'm always thinking about Howard the Duck. Now, where did I put my Dolby's Cube single?
posted by dogwelder at 9:40 AM on July 19, 2001


Kobo Abe (author of The Woman in the Dunes) wrote a book called The Face of Another about a man who fashions an incredibly real mask for himself after being disfigured in a chemical accident.

He ends up seducing his wife while wearing it and then gets angry at her when he's successful.

One of my favorite books!!
posted by Taken Outtacontext at 9:50 AM on July 19, 2001


For those of you non-enlightened souls who may have been too young to see "Howard The Duck" when it was originally released...here you go. "Ducks aren't funny -- at least, not like monkeys are funny."

And the movie finally brought home to millions of people the genius that is Jeffrey Jones.

Good lord...sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread. But what was I supposed to do? It's HOWARD THE DUCK, fer cryin' out loud!
posted by davidmsc at 9:53 AM on July 19, 2001


BWG, that's three front-page posts in a row! You going mad or something?
posted by solistrato at 9:59 AM on July 19, 2001


going? hehehe.

nah... they were too good. i just couldn't resist.

here endeth the spam.
posted by bwg at 10:05 AM on July 19, 2001


ob-clueless-question: Not having seen HtD, what exactly does "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" have to do with it?
posted by s.e.b. at 10:07 AM on July 19, 2001


I just wonder how such snippets of personal lives end up in newspapers. ~unplugs and moves to Montana~
posted by vandoren at 10:13 AM on July 19, 2001


s.e.b. - The song, a hit circa 1979, told the story of a man who, tired of his wife-who-doesn't-understand-him, places a personal ad, in which he reveals that he likes pina colada, getting caught in the rain, etc. He receives a reply from a woman who enjoys all of the things that he enjoys. They agree to meet. Of course, the woman is his wife. Turns out that neither the husband or the wife ever bothered to find out what the other *really* wanted out of life, but through the miracle of the personal ads, they re-discovered each other.

(slow fade into sunset, music swells, happy couple strolls along beach, pina coladas in hand).

Hmmmm...wonder if this news item (main post) isn't simply an updated tale based on this oft-told story. Which, by the way, also bears more than a passing resemblance to Ayn Rand's short story "Escort."
posted by davidmsc at 10:18 AM on July 19, 2001


David, I think you or I are misunderstanding SEB - he wasn't asking about the content of the pina colada song, but what the heck howard the duck had to do with it...I don't get that either.
posted by DiplomaticImmunity at 10:35 AM on July 19, 2001


The general rule for these things is if there's no direct quotes from the pople involved in the story, it's probably not real. No quotes here, and the tale is at two removes - from China by way of Norway. Betcha anything that this is an old urban legend recycled, although usually the husband winds up with his daughter, not his wife.
posted by Jos Bleau at 10:41 AM on July 19, 2001


Actually, I don't know that there's any direct connection between Howard the Duck and the Pina Colada song. I took it as a joke. Let me re-write it:

whoa, dogwelder...we must've had a Vulcan mind-meld going on at 9:15. Can't believe you were thinking about [some completely unrelated to the original two posts] too!
Does that help?
posted by dogwelder at 10:48 AM on July 19, 2001


Oops. Sorry. HtD has nothing to do with the original post. Except that dogwelder & I posted at the exact same time with the exact same reference (Pina Colada song), courtesy of the Vulcan mind-meld, during which our two brains were essentially "as one." During that horrifying encounter, I saw, in dogwelder's stream-of-consciousness, random images of Jeffrey Jones and Howard The Duck himself, and heard groovy music that sounded like Thomas Dolby & Cherry Bomb. It was at that moment that I realized dogwelder, like me, was fascinated and yet simultaneously repulsed that something so freakily made and...bizarre, for lack of a better term...could be made into a movie.

Hope that clears everything up.
posted by davidmsc at 10:50 AM on July 19, 2001


Damn. dogwelder & I are two minutes apart now. Connection lost.

(wipes sweat from brow)
posted by davidmsc at 10:51 AM on July 19, 2001


how does one weld dogs anyways?
posted by jcterminal at 10:53 AM on July 19, 2001


how does one weld dogs anyways?

No, you have it all wrong. The dogs are doing the welding.
posted by harmful at 11:33 AM on July 19, 2001


With a great deal of difficulty, I would imagine.
posted by dogwelder at 11:33 AM on July 19, 2001


Hmmmm...wonder if this news item (main post) isn't simply an updated tale based on this oft-told story.

Forgive me for doubting the integrity of ananova, but I have to agree. Sounds a little contrived to me.
posted by jpoulos at 11:41 AM on July 19, 2001


Aha. So the Howard the Duck stuff was just a planted non sequitur. Got it.

I need to get better at spotting those; they seem to be proliferating 'round here.

Even though I do know the song, davidmsc, that was a helpful guide for anyone who doesn't. :)
posted by s.e.b. at 12:18 PM on July 19, 2001


from This Is True newsletter 7/15:

"Man on Way to Brothel Finds Wife Working" -- Reuters headline
posted by fuzzygeek at 12:19 PM on July 19, 2001


Yet another place where this story has been told: An Episode of the Munsters, in which Herman and ???'s anniversary is approaching, and they each attempt to withdraw money from their bank account, which contained enough money for either but not both of their requests. As a result, each independently decides to take an extra job without telling the other. They work as welders at a shipyard, and end up falling in love all over again, each unable to identify the other behind the welder's mask...
posted by MonkeyMeat at 12:43 PM on July 19, 2001


I didn't know Poe wrote Munsters episodes!
posted by anildash at 1:04 PM on July 19, 2001


Herman and Lilly Munster. Far inferior to The Addams Family, of course, to which they are often compared, but amusing in their own way.

And speaking of Poe...she was just here in S. Texas to open for Depeche Mode. My teenager went - it was her first concert (unless you count MXPX, which I don't). Apparently Poe was enough for her...she left in the middle of Depeche Mode.

Oh...you meant the other Poe.
posted by davidmsc at 1:20 PM on July 19, 2001


The general rule for these things is if there's no direct quotes from the people involved in the story, it's probably not real.

i thought the rule was, if it's on annanova it's probably not real.
posted by quonsar at 4:22 PM on July 19, 2001


are hanks and ryan available
posted by clavdivs at 4:57 PM on July 19, 2001




Quonsar, you are right - I forgot that annanova is an unreal person who spits out unreal stories. That's two more removes from real, making that four total for this story. Can't wait to hear it reported breathlessly on the Monday morning-drivetime radio shows! Where's The Onion when you need it?
posted by Jos Bleau at 6:11 PM on July 19, 2001


davidmsc: you reference the appropriate lyrics - but you say it's the guy's wife. Actually he only says it's his "lady" (pronounced: lay-deh). a minor clarification.

Kudos to the folks trying to force Howard the Duck into this.
posted by artlung at 7:11 PM on July 19, 2001


artlung: Good catch..."It was my own lovely lay-deh" indeed.
posted by davidmsc at 8:03 PM on July 19, 2001


Will someone call O. Henry? I seem to have misplaced his number. (Are grave phones unlisted?)
posted by D at 11:23 PM on July 19, 2001


Duh... Yeah, I meant O. Henry, not Poe. Because of I am stupid.
posted by anildash at 7:59 PM on July 21, 2001


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