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More Idaho Jokes

Sure are a lot of hunting jokes about Idaho. We can only hope the Game Commission doesn’t give Dick Cheney an Idaho hunting license.

Hear about the restaurant that called a potato supplier and asked for 100 lbs of their biggest Idaho potatoes. 

The supplier said "sorry, we don't cut up a potato for anybody".

President Bush still having his five-week vacation. Today President Bush announced he is going to leave his ranch in Texas to visit Idaho for two days. However, Bush told his supporters, 'Don't worry, I won't do any work there either.'" --Conan O'Brien

Four guys are driving cross-country together. One from Idaho, Iowa, Oregon and one from California.

Down the road the man from Idaho starts pulling potatoes out of his bag and throws them on the road. The man from Iowa, says "What are you doing that for?"

The man from Idaho says, "We have so many of these, they are laying all over at home and I'm sick of looking at them".

A few more miles down the road, the Iowa man starts pulling husks of corn out of his bag and throwing them out the window.

The man from Oregon says, "Man what are you doing that for?" The man from Iowa says, "we have tons of these all over back home and I'm sick of looking at them!"

A Vandals fan wearin’ one of their T-shirts walks into a electronic store in Missoula. He wants to buy a brand new TV and walks over to the clerk and asks him," I’d like to buy that TV over there." The clerk says," I don't sell to Vandals fans." So the fan leaves and comes back the next day with a Wazzoo T on. He says to the clerk," I would like to by that TV over there." The clerk says," I don't sell to any Washington State fans." Frustrated the fan comes back the next day wearin’ a Bengals sweatshirt. "I would like to buy that TV over there," the fan said. The clerk said again," I don't sell to Idaho State fans." So the fan asks," You won't let me buy it as a Idaho State fan or a U of I  or even Washington fan. So why won't you?" The clerk waits a few seconds then replies," Because that's a microwave."

 You know they’re from Idaho if:

The wind is faster than your truck.

In March, your vehicle is 43% mud.

You leave your keys in the car and the next morning it's still there.

The elevation exceeds the population.

You've broken down on the highway and somebody stops to help you.

You can see the stars at night.

People drive 200 miles to shop in a real mall.

You got a set of snow tires for Valentines Day.

The bumper jack in your pickup will lift a house.

A rodeo is more popular than a rock concert.

You can fish, golf, and go skiing all in the same day if you try hard enough.

During a snow storm a yellow light means "follow the car in front of you no matter what."

You wave to someone on the freeway because you recognize the truck.

You've ever received skis for Christmas, and used them Christmas morning skiing off of the roof.

You know what a finger steak is.

You've seen snow in every month of the year.

You prefer to ski at the place it takes chains on snow tires to get to.

You have ever used the 'Above 3500 feet' directions in cooking instuctions.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Idaho.

Hear about the guys sitting behind some nuns at a ball game. The nuns’ habits were blocking their view. 

So, the first guy says, "I think I'm going to move to Utah, ‘cuz there are only 100 nuns living there."

Second guy says, "I’m movin’ Montana. Heard there’s 50 nuns there."

Third guy pipes up, "I'm goin’ to Idaho, rumors are there's only a handleful of nuns there."

One of the nuns turns around, looked at the men, and says in a very sweet voice, "Why don't you all go to Hell. There aren't any nuns living there."

SIX THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT: IDAHO. By Nathan B. Anderson, II

Like many people hailing from arcane states, I have spent a lot of time defending my home turf against the ignorance that prevails in more populated parts. The typical encounter with someone, usually a provincial Easterner, who first realizes I'm from Idaho goes exactly like this:

"You're from Idaho?"

"Yes."

"So do you like potatoes?"

"Yes, can you spell potato?"

"Blank you."

There are exceptions, of course. In France, my host family had never heard of Idaho, so I told them it's in the West. This prompted the question: "Are you a cowboy?" I had failed to recognize the cachet that image could have provided and they were quite disappointed that I did not ride a horse to school. To avoid the pointless explanations, now I tell foreigners Idaho is near California, which is only technically true but generally met with wide-eyed nods of approval. Then they ask if I'm a drug dealer.

To clear up the many misconceptions about Idaho, widely considered the least-cool western state by the ignorant masses, I felt compelled to mine a few nuggets about the Gem State.

#1. You Eat More Idaho Potatoes Than We Do.

Curiosity of curiosities! Irony of ironies! We don't eat Idaho potatoes!

For a state so justly famous for potatoes, it is sad that nary an Idahoan has eaten an actual Idaho potato unless it has first been sent to Pennsylvania to be processed and repackaged as instant mashed potatoes. The reason here is the same old bottom line that manages to screw the justice out of most situations -- the almighty dollar. It is more profitable to sell Idaho potatoes outside Idaho to large corporations like McDonald's and Ore-Ida. (Ore-Ida despite being a mash-up of "Oregon and Idaho" is actually a division of Heinz in Pittsburgh, Pa.) This creates a market vacuum within Idaho. We support potato farmers in Maine, Washington and California, where most of our potatoes come from.

And to think that the Maine potato farmers were originally so angry to be supplanted by Idaho's potato output. Never had they imagined that by some unforeseeable insouciance of market economics they would end up feeding the very farmers they'd previously blamed with stealing their livelihood. Never mind that the Maine 'peanut' fetches pennies on the dollar compared with the mighty Idaho #1 Russett Burbank, but they'd probably be better off sticking to fiddleheads.

#2. We Play Football on a Blue Field.

The mighty Broncos of Boise State University play on the world's only radical, other-worldly blue field. WHY??? The quality of color selection was affirmed by Mother Nature shortly after its installation in 1986 when passing flocks of migrating geese repeatedly landed in accidental mass suicides, apparently mistaking the field for a beautiful blue lake. Shortly thereafter the grounds keepers began covering the field when not in use, to prevent the aforementioned bird crash deaths and grisly clean-up efforts. No matter how many geese had to die, removing the beloved "Smurf Turf" was never considered. It was reinstalled in 1996, then replaced with identically colored AstroPlay synthetic grass in 2002.

With Smurf Turf in place, the Boise State football program has enjoyed a meteoric rise to dominance, ascending from the I-AA Big Sky conference to I-A superiority in the Western Athletic Conference in just eight short years -- a huge achievement. Over the last three years, Boise State has gone 33-6 -- 12-1 and 13-1 in the last two seasons -- averaging 42 points per contest. That's better than all three of the most recent National Champions USC (29-9), Ohio State (32-7), and LSU (31-9). Argue all you want that Boise State is in a weak conference. It's trash talk coming from BCS school riff-raff afraid to lose to a mid-major.

They know, as the facts show, that Boise State doesn't lose at home on the menacing blue field turf.

 #3. Our Mountains Are Greater Than Our Plains.

Right after we've tabled the "potato conversation" the next thing people say about Idaho is how boring it must have been to grow up in the Midwest or how they have some cousin in Des Moines or Columbus and did I know them? No disrespect to Iowa or Ohio, and as much as I admire you corn-fed folks -- I'm from IDAHO. We're in the West, west of Montana even, a state widely recognized as being Western. QED. (For your learning convenience, I've included a map at right.) Above is a picture of Redfish Lake in central Idaho, because contrary to our reputation for Great Plains, we're in the Rocky Mountains. Right. Totally not at all in the Midwest.

#4. We're Not Self Important Assholes...

We don't mind being the butt of jokes ... as long as it keeps YOU out of OUR state.

Idaho could crow about how cool it is, sure. We could cash in on the Western thing, actively cultivating a fringe and spur-wearing image like Colorado. We could point out our notable contributions to contemporary Americana, the destination ski resort (Sun Valley), television, and the freeze dried vegetable, but that wouldn't be Idaho's style. We wouldn't want to attract the attention because we don't want you coming here to bask in our reflected glory and understated street cred.

To wit, Boise has grown from a hamlet of just over 100,000 to around 500,000 in my mere twenty years' association with the place. Most of that influx has come, literally, from the OC. Anyone caught lingering with California plates on their car will have their windows smashed with a rock wrapped in a note to the effect of "buzz off jerk," and not in those terms. There has also been the fierce proclamation, mostly via bumper sticker of "IDAHO NATIVE" which sort of implies that the rest should get out. Logically this would leave only a handful of Indians, excluding even the libertarian crackers who sport that propaganda, but then the idea is simplistic xenophobia which tends to fly in the face of logic. So long as it scares you off, we're doing our job.

 #5. ... But We Have Our Share of Racist Assholes.

Idaho may be famous for potatoes, but we're more infamous for white supremacists, most notably the despised Aryan Nation. There are also some individual, high-profile bigots and separatists such as Mark Fuhrman, who retired to Idaho after his public humiliation during the O.J. Simpson trial, and Randy Weaver of the made for TV Ruby Ridge fiasco. Our representation in Washington, formerly headlined by Rep. Helen "Black Helicopters Are Chasing Me" Chenoweth, has done little to combat our reputation for being edgy, gun-wielding militants. (Check out Senator Larry Craig's 2003 gun industry immunit bill if you have any doubts about this, S.1806.)

Yet I must confess that I only know five or six white separatists myself, and one of them is Jewish so she doesn't really count. Plus which, most of them reside in the northern "panhandle" of the state which may as well be another state its so physically and politically cut-off from the southern center of population and thought. It may also surprise you to know that the Aryan Nation foundered in the late 1990s and in 2001 their Hayden Lake compound was purchased by a quirky Internet millionaire who plans to build a museum and human rights education center on the property. In another pro-humanity move, which might seem a little out of place, Boise is currently building its own Holocaust Memorial though Idaho's first Jew only arrived in the mid 1980s and quickly adopted the white separatist ideology to 'fit in,' or so she claims.

 #6. We Love a Good Corporate Conflict.

The first example comes to us from the pre-Internet days of 1987. On November 23rd, Continental Airlines flight 1713 with service from Denver to Boise, flipped on take-off after the pilots and ground personnel failed to de-ice the wings. Included in the 28 fatalities on the tarmac that evening was nearly every important potato farmer in Idaho. What had started as a joyous and triumphant return from a Denver agricultural exposition (just the second plane ride for many involved) ended in a fiery calamity that rocked Idaho's potato community to the core. Many feared that the secrets those farmers took to their untimely graves would be the undoing of the multi-billion dollar potato industry. I mean let's face it, potatoes don't grow on trees.

When Idaho sued Continental for suitable compensation, Continental responded by ending service to Boise. In their subsequent advertising campaign, boasting service to major cities* nationwide, the asterisk and small print at the bottom read something to the effect of *"Except Boise, besides, who would want to go there anyway?" How's that for a touch of class when a plain old "we're sorry" would have done the trick?

To this day Continental Airlines proper does not offer service into Boise, but will gladly accept money from people traveling there via code share partner Horizon Airlines.

The latest example involved AOL's 2003 kick-off of their new high-speed internet service, which they launched with gala parties in New York and Los Angeles. Their ironic promotional materials for the event quipped in The New York Post: "You didn't think we'd launch something like this in Boise, did you?"

The mayor and the governor got involved and the next thing you know AOL was kissing our ass with a private launch party with free AOL gear (admittedly not that cool) and $25,000 in hush money paid to the Boise School District.

So next time a faceless corporation wants to stomp on a small town, bring it on! Idaho likes to tangle.

Here are the 40 questions asked during the December 19th episode of North Idaho Arts & Adventure radio show. The show featured Gary Lirette, Rick Reed, Paul the singing butcher, and Ron Lloyd, and was titled:

An Irreverent Look Back on 2006

So, we are now looking down the tail end of another year. North Idaho has been lambasted with some serious issues, and some quizzical happenings. So without further adieu, I introduce to you our all-star panel: the Comedian Rick Reed, Paul the singing butcher from Yoke’s, and Ron Lloyd, singer of ballads extraordinaire. (Anybody else illin’ from my overuse of French idioms?)

We only have one rule. You, our listening public, cannot take any of these issues too seriously, at least not for this one hour. Plus, our panel must do the same. Let’s poke a little fun at things that often lead to less than cordial positions, and remember that a little humor goes a long way at solving many of our problems.

So here are some of the questions:

1. What about this tunnel/byway issue? Think we should dig the tunnel, take all those for one and the other, put ‘em in the tunnel, and fill it up?
2. How ‘bout that Rock Creek Mine?
3. We’ve had pretty good snow the last couple years. Is global warming really affecting us?
4. Snow – For or against it?
5. We now have a female sheriff. Does that mean we have a kinder, gentler posse?
6. Some people have advocated getting rid of the Sandpoint Police department, what ‘cha think?
7. We all know we now have Milfoil everywhere. What do you think the likelihood of it forming a new island in the middle of Lake Pend Oreille?
8. What do you think the statistical chances are of hitting a Real Estate agent if you have an accident in Bonner or Boundary?
9. We have another set of new owners at Schweitzer. Has big real estate become like professional sports? I mean, you never know who’s gonna be on the team next season.
10. We now have record unemployment. Anybody want to go back to the days when nobody could find a job?
11. Speaking of unemployment, seems the lumbar industry is making a good comeback. Anyone seen a spotted owl lately?
12. Some of our lady folk have been complaining to me lately that there is a definite lack of eligible men in the area.
13. Do you think most men would say that in reality, we simply need more women?
14. Building department – For or against it?
15. Let’s talk about the loss of a couple of our institutions, like Harold’s Grocery and Wigley’s.
16. What about these mudslides in Dover and up at Schweitzer?
17. The nation has seemed to turn against Bush in a real way. Why does Idaho continue its support?
18. Butch Otter was against the Patriot Act, and now he’s the governor. Does that mean that our Republicans are smarter than in other states?
19. How about Boise State football? First time in the top ten?
20. Sandpoint, as usual has been kicking the derriere out of its opponents in so many sports we can hardly tally ‘em all. But was Sandpoint not ripped off in the football playoffs with that illegal play that lost the game for the team?
21. How come we are so good at sports in North Idaho?
22. Should Idaho be split into two states? North Idaho and that other place.
23. Should North Idaho become a part of Washington?
24. Should North Idaho become a part of Canada?
25. Canadians – For ‘em or against ‘em?
26. What’s the better tourist season? Summer or Winter?
27. California – For it or against it?
28. Should people walk across the Long Bridge after a night of partying?
29. Home Depot – For it or against it?
30.  Will Highway 95 ever really be widened?
31. Speaking of transportation, does anyone have the instruction manual for how to smuggle pot across the border on a snowmobile?
32. Seems a lot of people are moving here from Denver. What’s up with dat?
33. Mardi Gras – For it or against it?
34. We don’t seem to have much ethnic diversity: should we import?
35. Is it true that area cops are waiting outside bars and restaurants trying to catch drunks? Fair game or not?
36. Jack Nicklaus golf: cool or not?
37. Is visqueen really considered a North Idaho outer wall construction material?
38. Are the best restaurants in Spokane really in Sandpoint?
39. How about those “You know you’re from Idaho if…” jokes?
40. So we have a Naval Training facility for sonar here right? Do we really have submarine races, and how can I get my wife to go with me to watch ‘em?

The Dufort Mall - Taken from the blog of Brodh2o 8.31.2006

Idaho Cowboy Rescue
(a bit racy)

Two cowboys from Idaho walk  into a roadhouse to wash the trail dust  from their throats.  They stand at the bar,  drinking a beer and talking about current cattle prices.

Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table, who is eating a sandwich, begins to cough.  After a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in real distress.

One of the cowboys looks at her and say, "Kin ya swaller?"
The woman shakes her head, no.
"Kin ya breathe?" The woman begins to turn blue and shakes her head.
The cowboy walks over to the woman, lifts up the back of her dress, yanks down her panties, and slowly runs his tongue from the back of her thigh up to the small of her back.  The woman is so shocked, that she has a violent spasm and the obstruction flies out of her mouth.

As she begins to breathe again, the cowboy walks slowly back to the bar and takes a drink from his beer.
His partner says, "Ya know, I'd heard of that there "Hind Lick maneuver, but I ain't never seen nobody do it.
                                                            
Yep! Could be an Idaho cowboy!

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Learn to speak the language
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The White House did not just get a new team, but a whole new
language.  George W. Bush brought with him the language of the country and its colorful characters.  For anyone not born in Rural America or spent any time there, the accents and the  cowboy vocabulary may seem a bit strange but no matter who you are they will always bring a smile and usually they are universally understood.  If not here is a guide....to some you may hear.

1. The engine's runnin' but ain't nobody driving 
   Not overly intelligent.

2. As welcome as a skunk at a lawn party (self-explanatory).

3. Tighter than bark on a tree
     Not very generous.

4. Big hat, no cattle
    All talk and no action.

5. We've howdied but we ain't shook yet
     We've made a brief acquaintance, but not been formally introduced.

6. He thinks the sun come up just to hear him crow 
    He has a pretty high opinion of himself.

7. She's got tongue enough for ten rows of teeth 
    That woman can talk.

8. It's so dry the trees are bribin' the dogs 
    We really could use a little rain around here.

9. Just because a chicken has wings doesn't mean it can fly
    Appearances can be deceptive.

10. This ain't my first rodeo
       I've been around awhile.

11. He looks like the dog's been keepin' him under the porch
      Not the most handsome of men.

12. They ate supper before they said grace
       Living in sin.

13. Time to paint your butt white and run with the antelope
      Stop arguing and do as you're told.

14. As full of wind as a corn-eating horse
      prone to boasting.

15. You can put your boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits.
       You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is.

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Idaho woman pepper sprays her way out of hospital

February 16, 2007 36-year-old Idaho woman became frustrated and allegedly used pepper spray on hospital employees when they refused to discharge her.

Susan Kollars sprayed employees at St. Peter's Hospital on Sunday and then ran towards Interstate 15. According to AP reports, it is not clear why Kollars was denied discharge from the hospital or why she was admitted.

According to Police Chief Troy McGee, a man driving a pickup saw Kollars but she tried to spray him as well. She was then taken into custody and returned to the hospital. She now faces three counts of misdemeanor assault resulting from the incident.

 

Angry Alien http://veryfunnyads.com/ Tax season is just over, so here are some Tax Jokes There was a man who computed his taxes for 1997 and found that he owed $3407. He packaged up his payment and included this letter: Dear IRS: Enclosed is my 1997 Tax Return & payment. Please take note of the attached article from the USA Today newspaper. In the article, you will see that the Pentagon is paying $171.50 for hammers and NASA has paid $600.00 for a toilet seat. Please find enclosed four toilet seats (value $2400) and six hammers (value $1029). This brings my total payment to $3429.00. Please note the overpayment of $22.00 and apply it to the 'Presidential Election Fund', as noted on my return. Might I suggest you the send the above mentioned fund a '1.5 inch screw'. (See attached article - HUD paid $22.00 for a 1.5 inch Phillips Head Screw.) It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. I just saw an article about the Pentagon and 'screwdrivers'. Sincerely, I. Getscrewed Everyear   If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with. But... If it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realize that you actually set it free in the first place, you either married it or gave birth to it. Either of which is probably tax deductible. If a lawyer and an IRS agent were both drowning, and you could only save one of them, would you go to lunch or read the paper?   What's the definition of an accountant? Someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand. What's the definition of a good tax accountant? Someone who has a loophole named after him. When does a person decide to become an accountant? When he realises he doesn't have the charisma to succeed as an undertaker. What does an accountant use for birth control? His personality. What's an auditor? Someone who arrives after the battle and bayonets all the wounded. Why did the auditor cross the road? Because he looked in the file and that's what they did last year. There are three kinds of accountants in the world. Those who can count and those who can't. How do you drive an accountant completely insane? Tie him to a chair, stand in front of him and fold up a road map the wrong way. An accountant is someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. For every tax problem there is a solution which is straightforward, uncomplicated and wrong. People who complain about paying their income tax can be divided into two types: men and women. "What's the difference between an overzealous tax auditor and a rottweiler? Answer: "A rottweiler eventually lets go!" "How can you tell when a tax auditor is trying to trap you into a confession?" Answer: "When his lips are moving." "Why do sharks not attack tax auditors?" Answer: "Professional courtesy." Due to taxation, politicians find it increasingly difficult to reconcile their net incomes with their gross habits. To err is human - and to blame it on the Government is even more so. Death: "to stop paying taxes suddenly." Where there's a will there's a tax shelter. Tax loopholes are like parking meters. As soon as you see one they're gone. A dollar saved is bound to be taxed. Q. What is the difference between a terrorist and a tax inspector? A. You can negotiate with a terrorist. Q. What's the difference between a tax adviser and an angry bull? A. The tax adviser charges more. Why is simplification such a long word? It is good to be sent tax returns by pessimistic tax inspectors - they don't expect to get them back. If taxes are the answer, what was the question? If you want to foil that Inland Revenue computer fill out your self-assessment form using Roman numerals. With tax reliefs exceptions always outnumber entitlements. Having tax lawyers draft tax law is like having doctors make diseases. Do your tax return before breakfast and nothing worse will happen to you all day. Due to taxation, politicians find it increasingly difficult to reconcile their net incomes with their gross habits. I don't have a tax solution, but I admire the problem Ambition in America is still rewarded . . . with high taxes. America is the land of opportunity. Everybody can become a taxpayer. It's hard to believe America was founded to avoid high taxation. There was a time when $200.00 was the down-payment on a car; now it's the sales tax. If my business gets much worse, I won't have to lie on my next tax return. Congress does some strange things. It puts a high tax on liquor and then raises the other taxes that drive people to drink. The attitude of Congress toward hidden taxes is not to do away with them, but to hide them better. Congress has the unsolved problem of how to get the people to pay taxes they can't afford for services they don't need. A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait until income tax time. Some people think the government owes them a living. The rest of us would gladly settle for a small tax refund. A man's home is his castle. At least that's how he feels when he pays taxes on it. Don't you long for the good old days when Uncle Sam lived within his income and without most of yours? Nothing makes a person more modest about their income than to fill out a tax form. The income tax forms have been simplified beyond all understanding. It's too bad for the middle income person. They earn too much to avoid paying taxes and make too little to afford paying them. When making out your tax return, it's better to give than to deceive. After a man pays his income tax, he knows how a cow feels after she's been milked. The latest income-tax form has been greatly simplified. It consists of only three parts: (1) How much did you make last year? (2) How much have you got left? (3) Send amount listed in part 2. An income-tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. About the time a man is cured of swearing, another income tax is due. The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf. The average man knows as much about the atomic bomb as he does about his income-tax form. Suppose we had to pay on what we think we are worth? George Washington never told a lie, but then he never had to file a Form 1040. What the present income-tax form needs is a section which would explain the explanations. When making out your income-tax report, be sure you don't overlook your most expensive dependent - the government. Income-tax forms should be printed on Kleenex because so many of us have to pay through the nose. We wouldn't mind paying income tax if we could know which country it's going to. In 1913 Uncle Sam collected only 13 million dollars in income taxes. That's why they were called the "good old days." The guy who said that truth never hurts never had to fill out a Form 1040. Making out your own income tax return is something like a do-it-yourself mugging. A lot of people still have the first dollar they ever made - Uncle Sam has all the others. A harp is a piano after taxes. No respectable person is in favor of nudity, but after paying taxes, some of us may not have any other choice. Poverty is what you experience the day after you pay your income tax. One of the biggest advantages of being poor is that you'll never have to undergo the trauma of a tax audit. The chaplains who pray for the United States Senate and the House of Representatives might speak a word now and then on behalf of the taxpayers. Unquestionably, there is progress every where. The average American now pays out as much in taxes as he formerly received in wages. With a billion dollar budget, it ought to be possible to set aside enough money to teach the IRS the basic English necessary to write a readable income-tax form. Another American invention is the permanent temporary tax. The best tax law is the one that gets the most feathers with the least squawking. Which has made the biggest liars out of Americans - golf or the income tax? A man admitted he lied on his income-tax return - he listed himself as the head of the household! Life is one dodge after another - cars, taxes, and responsibilities. The best things in life are free - plus tax, of course. The way the cost of living and taxes are today, you might as well marry for love. The average man now lives thirty-one years longer than he did in 1850. He has to in order to get his taxes paid. A serious impediment to a successful marriage these days is the difficulty of supporting both the government and a spouse on one small income. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth - less 40 percent inheritance tax. When the time comes for the meek to inherit the earth, taxes will most likely be so high that they won't want it.