Broads
June 23rd, 2005Never is exquisite taste more important than when choosing a woman with which to spend your life.
I just finished watching a World Poker Tour event in which a fifty year old self-professed “professional gambler” finished second. Throughout the televised portion of the tournament, his “girlfriend” was yelling to him from the spectator seats. What’s worse, he was responding. An example: he called an all in bet and when the cards were turned up, he was an underdog in the hand. She yelled… no… she YELLED, “It’s OK, Baby, we just need an Ace.” He replied (seeming a bit irritated – a saving grace for him), “I know, Baby.”
I was embarrassed for him.
She was dressed like a ho without the body for it. Insult to injury.
When it came down to heads up play and he was all-in on the short stack, she actually came down out of the stands before the last card was dealt. The whole time she was walking down, she was yelling to him about what card(s) “they” needed.
He lost and she began crying. The man just won more than $327,000 for taking second place and she was sobbing. So much so, that he was (presumably) comforting her instead of toasting the winner and celebrating his second place finish, as is the tradition on the show.
On national TV.
All I could think was that she was an embarrassment and he deserves it. How can you be that indiscriminate about the company you keep?
There are only three kinds of women mentioned in the Bible:
Virtuous women, silly women and whores.
Sometimes they overlap and none of those conditions are permanent.
Eeeks…too often I’m silly rather than virtuous. Can you be silly, like when you’re making little kids laugh, and still be virtuous?
Perhaps silly in this instance is carry the connotation of frivolous—”of little weight or importanc; having no sound basis (as in fact or law); lacking in seriousness; marked by unbecoming levity” (emphasis in bold is mine). {scarf wave to http://www.merriamwebster.com}
So…even by that definition I’m too often silly…eeks…better to recognize that now!
importanc = importance
dag…
Relax, Sweetheart. “Silly” here was referencing it’s use in II Timothy 3. The original Greek there is gunaikarion which comes from gune. More accurately translated it would be “foolish wife.”
Making little kids laugh is virtuous. II Timothy is making reference to wives that lack wisdom and are “led away with divers lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
You’re fine.
I know what you mean.
God knows, however, how much truth is still rattlin’ round in my head and which truths actually have traveled to my heart and taken root and sprouted into a tree of life—-the areas of my life in which I’m living by faith and the areas in which I’m livin’ by sight.
I wonder why that only three kinds of women were mentioned in the bible? Perhaps because men wrote it.