Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!homxa!stumpf From: stumpf@homxa.UUCP (P.STUMPF) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: more stupid word combinations ... Message-ID: <618@homxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 15:53:54 EST Article-I.D.: homxa.618 Posted: Fri Jan 11 15:53:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 07:13:55 EST References: <788@pucc-k> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 19 > Have you ever noticed that, whenever a couple gets >married, the Master of Ceremonies (whether minister, Justice of >the Peace, or motorcycle mechanic) always says something stupid >like "I now pronounce you 'man and wife'." Isn't that why they went to get married? (:-). But seriously, in over a dozen weddings I've attended the MC has always said something like "I now pronounce you husband and wife." At the rehearsal, before one of these weddings, this question was raised, and the MC insisted that the phrase "man and wife" was never used. I have heard it on TV shows, and in the movies, but what do you expect, there? -- Pete Stumpf ..!ihnp4!homxa!stumpf US MAIL AT&T-Labs Room WB 1L-331/Crawford Corners Road/Holmdel,NJ 07733 Phone 201-870-7368