November 9, 1998

By Aaron Mahoney

Wisdom comes from
the most unlikely
sources. The stars, the
bones or a man who
works like a dog for six
months and lives the rest
of the time in a beach
house in Thailand.

After legally changing
his name to mean some-
one who steals equine,
he often has time to
reflect and put pen to
paper. With permission |
have included his Letter
to the Editor to the Valley
Sentinel for UNBC stu-
dents to ponder over.

The battle between the
sexes started with Adam
and Eve-even if, for
some, the creation story
required a suspension of
disbelief - and there’s no
end in sight. The discus-
sion is mainly over how

the sexes differ and
whether the twain will
ever. meet. Albert
Einstein, the greatest
scientific mind of the
20th century, allowed
that he understood the
working of the universe
but not women:
Sociologists, psycholo-
gists and laymen who
have give the subject
much thought generally
agree that males are an
easier read. Humorists
delight in kidding both
sexes, usually present-
ing them as stereotypes
and sacrificing accuracy
for punch lies. While
Aristotle, in all serious-
ness, maintained that
they didn’t have the
same number of teeth. |
and some other people
offer a variety of differ-
ences:

LETTERS
Small town sage unravels the mysteries of the sexes

Women have more
imagination than men.
They need it to tell us
how wonderful we are.

Women have their
faults. Men have only
two: Everything they say;
everything they do.

Asuccessful man is one
who makes more money
that his wife can spend -
a successful woman is
one who can find such a
man.

When women are
depressed they either
eat or go shopping. Men
invade another country.

A man is a person who
will pay $100 for a $50
item he wants. A woman
will pay $50 for a $100
item that she doesn’t
want.

At the workplace, when
a man gives his opinion,
he’s a man. When a

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woman gives her opin-
ion, she’s a bitch.

It's not true that men
prefer women who are
foolish. Rather they pre-
fer women who can stim-
ulate foolishness when-
ever necessary, which is
the very core of intelli-
gence.

Men want to be a
woman ’s first love. What
women like is to be a
man’s last romance.

To be happy with a
man, you must under-
stand him a lot and love
him a little. To be happy
with a woman,.you must
love her a lot and not try
to understand her at all.

A woman marries a
man expecting he will
change. But he doesn't.
Aman mar ries a woman
expecting that she won't
change, but she does.

A woman worries about

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the future until she gets
a husband, while a man
never worries about the
future until he gets a
wife.

Two things are neces-
sary to keep a wife
happy. One is to let her
think that she is having
her own way, the other is
to let her have it.

A woman has the last
word in any argument.
Anything a man says
after that is the begin-
ning of a new argument.

Men are like animals -
messy, insensitive,
potentially violent - but
they make great pets.

The best reason to
divorce a man is a health
reason: The wife is sick
of him.

Diamonds are a girl’s
best friend. Dogs are a
man’s best friend. Now
you know which of the

two sexes is smarter.

So | guess end up hav- -
ing a thing with fleas -
and a dog. OOPS!! I’m
outta here before | get
caught and hung up ona
telephone pole down on
the corner by a band of
the fairer sex.

Horsethief (Mr.)
Valemount, BC

Shortly after writing this
letter, Horsethief fled to
another country and
went into hiding. He is
expected to re-surface
next spring when the
logging season starts.
Hopefully he will have
thought about men and
women some more and
will be able to provide
new insight into the rela-
tionship between the two