The Care and Feeding Of A Benchrist Wife

[Tim Oltersdorf]

Now that the BR season is over let us turn our thoughts to a messy, illogical but very necessary part of our sport. I speak, of course, about our spouses. They put up with a lot and in our heart of hearts we know it is a lot more then we would put up with. So here is a BR 101 spouses survival manual:
1: This is the easy part. Pounce on her sexualy every chance you get. Women from the get go are taught to be alluring. Tell her she is and you are golden. So what if she doesn't look like Paris Hilton. You don't look like Brad Pit by a long shot.
2: Go to a chick flick where everyone is unfulfilled and you feel like crying. Do it once and be free forever, or at least for 2 months, to watch explosions and tits.
3: Have meaningful conversation and (this is the hard part) at least once a day. It can be 5 minutes or 30 depending on your spouse. If you have one that tends to chatter on forever develop the technique to shut her down or divert the conversation to the important things like benchrest. Tim

[Glenn Chism]

The title of this post should have been "The care and feeding of a Benchrest Shooter"

I've been a subscriber to Dr Tim's BR 101 for the past 10 years. Especially when I need to buy a new Benchrest toy. It's the only way I've been able to survive.



Glenn

[Wilbur]

My wife will agree to anything to see me gone for the weekend.

[jackie schmidt]

You can get off a little cheaper than a Movie. Just sit with Her and watch a couple of those made for Satellite TV dramas on the Lifetime Channel, where there are three major themes. Number one, young Men are pigs. Number two, middle aged Men are pigs, and number three, old Men are pigs.

My marriage of close to 40 years has held strong for one primary reason. My Wife is good at math, and she is an astute collector of portraits of famous Americans, mainly Andrew Jackson, US Grant, and her favorite, Ben Franklin. With me, she collects those. Without me, she has to settle for ole George..........jackie

[glynn angle]

Good stuff, but Jackie please, don't make me watch the lifetime channel. Fore you know it, we'll be watching dancing with the stars, or ...no I can't say it .....ah.......soaps .....ah...ah...no..no...

[Roger T]

SOAPS are over the LIMIT. That's just twisted sick.

[Mike Bryant]

Originally Posted by glynn angle

Good stuff, but Jackie please, don't make me watch the lifetime channel. Fore you know it, we'll be watching dancing with the stars, or ...no I can't say it .....ah.......soaps .....ah...ah...no..no...

You mean I'm not supposed to be watching Michael Irving get kicked off of Dancing with the Stars or worse Project Runway?

[bob harrison]

Project Runway is full of drama, suspense and secret plots. It is a microcosim of life, and portrays interesting people that you would not find at your average BR match. For us simple, rural, small town folk it is a look behind the scenes at life in the big city. All in all, it is a spellbinding program, that leaves you wondering what will happen next.

[bob harrison]

Originally Posted by jackie schmidt

You can get off a little cheaper than a Movie. Just sit with Her and watch a couple of those made for Satellite TV dramas on the Lifetime Channel, where there are three major themes. Number one, young Men are pigs. Number two, middle aged Men are pigs, and number three, old Men are pigs.

My marriage of close to 40 years has held strong for one primary reason. My Wife is good at math, and she is an astute collector of portraits of famous Americans, mainly Andrew Jackson, US Grant, and her favorite, Ben Franklin. With me, she collects those. Without me, she has to settle for ole George..........jackie

Jackie, do not discount your handsome, movie star good looks. She may also be attracted to the fact that you resemble a more mature Brad Pitt.

[mbp]

my wife decides to watch dancing with the steers or project rungay. Why don't women understand the value of the discovery and history channels??? Strange creatures they are. The only animal that can go to bed happy as a lark and wake up grizzly mad. I think God belly laughs whenever a guy gets married!! She thinks hunting and shooting are "hobbies" instead of a necessity like oxygen---yep emotionally warped & hormonally handicapped.

[.25shooter]

I see that women, as unpredictable as they are, are just the same all ower the world.

[Dave Coots]

#4. Act like you are listening to them.

Maybe my wife is gay, but she doesn't watch that crap.

Dave

[wolf gray]

YOU GUYS HAVE DEPRESSED ME ! I think I will go buy another scope !!

Best,
Dan Batko

"Where are we going and why am I in this basket?"

[Mike Bryant]

Originally Posted by bob harrison

Project Runway is full of drama... For us simple, rural, small town folk it is a look behind the scenes at life in the big city. ...

And makes you glad that you live in a small rural town or area around it. However, it does make you see why when you go looking for clothes at a department store why you can't find anything you want to buy.

[jackie schmidt]

What's wrong with Dancing with the Stars??? Checked out the Women on that thing. With practically nothing on. Shaking everything the good lord gave them. And doing it VERY well.

There are guys paying a $20 cover charge at a "gentleman's club" and not getting that good of a show..........jackie