Fred Flintstone is on match.com

Everyone knows Polly—she started as an across the street neighbor that brought me a yummy smelling Aveda candle as a welcome present 7 years ago and is now a good friend. Polly is a single Mom of a fabulous 14-year-old boy. She has suffered through the world of dating in your 40s with me.  She is getting ready to launch an Internet dating service that will be really different.  I can’t wait.  Here is a cut and paste of a text I got from Polly last night:

Condensed match story: a man winked at me so I read his profile. It was fine, well written, even a little naughty. I wrote him and what he wrote back was full of typos and had a way different tone...like someone else completely. He's interested. I'm suspicious.  I’m thinking there are Profile Writers out there, for hire, to lure educated women to Barney Rubbles on the lookout for meal tickets with boobs. Am I being negative?

I wrote back that I agreed and pointed out that Barney was an accountant and Fred was the laborer. (Sulie always points this out since she is an accountant too. Polly has an excellent point—you would read really great profiles and then you got weird messages like (True example):

penelope, i like you

I write my posts in Word first because it is easier to format.  It just took me 3 tries to write that.  Even Word knew that a proper name and “I” should be capitalized!

Polly replied to my text with another excellent point that is pervasive in T.V.:

And of course Betty and Wilma were way too good for either of them.

ok..... TTYT

Which makes me want to write of quick list off the top of my head of T.V. wives that were far superior to their husbands.  Add to my list in comments:

• Carol and Mike Brady: Please, didn’t she know he was gay and that he permed his hair?
• Edith and Archie Bunker: He was racist and not handsome.
• Marge and Homer Simpson: I don’t know where to start with that pairing.
• Daphne and Niles on Frasier: Again, with marrying a gay boy! 
• Izzie and George on Grey’s: They’re not married but AGAIN—didn’t you watch Entertainment Tonight Izzie?—he’s GAY!
• Laura and Rob Petrie on Dick Van Dyke Show—He was a spaz!  Sidebar: John once told me that I reminded him of Laura Petrie particularly because I would wear all kinds of sassy nighties and cool P.J.s.  Freak.
• Lucy and Ricky Ricardo-I couldn’t understand him!
• Alicia and Peter Florrick-If you don’t watch The Good Wife, you need to start.  His character is modeled after Elliot Spitzer.  Enough said.  Reminds me I like her better than George Clooney when she was Carol on ER.  She has played the “better half” twice!
• Jane and George Jetson-He is just plain stupid. Doesn’t he know how to hit the stop button on the treadmill?

Ironically, John and I went to a Halloween party the year before everything fell apart. I just had an idea; I shall refer to 2007 as The Year of the Rat.  I know that’s Chinese, but you know what I say, Chinese,  Vietnamese….

Back to the party, we went as Mary Ann and The Skipper.  I rocked it! It was easy to dress up John—I had an old Captain’s Hat from when I threw a small bachelorette party on Ana Maria called “Bitches By the Sea.”  The rest was a blue polo shirt, khakis and boat shoes.  He provided the gut.  In retrospect, in reality we were as compatible as Mary Ann and The Skipper would have been…