"25 RULES FOR WOMEN (BY MEN)"

1. SportsDesk starts at 11:00 PM and runs an hour. This is a

great time to pay bills, put laundry in the dryer or talk to
your sister.

2. Two hot dogs and a beer at a hockey game do, in fact,

constitute going out to dinner.

3. Unlike you, we essentially want to dress just exactly like all

our friends. Thus, you need not go much further than the Gap,
Zellers or the local Walmart store.

4. If we see you in the morning and at night, why call us at work?

5. Butthead is the smart one.

6. Is it too much to ask to have the bra match the underwear?

7. You probably don't want to know what we're thinking about.

8. Silence does not need to be filled with discussions about "us"

and "the relationship".
9. Things you can help with: the Sunday crossword, yard work, the
dishes, cleaning, and grocery shopping.

10. Things you should let us do alone: figuring out where we are,
watching anything on TBS, playing cards, smoking cigars and
picking out the beer.

11. Socks never constitute a gift.

12. Department stores and malls were designed so that when you want
to look at bed linen, shower curtains or handbags, there are
always some speakers, tires or sporting equipment nearby.

13. We don't know anything about handbags. Don't even ask.

14. We did water the plants. They died anyway. Nobody knows why
this happens.

15. Even if you think he's cute, George Clooney can't act.

16. Of course, neither can Pamela Anderson, but she had the good
sense to do "Baywatch" rather than "ER."

17. Curley is the bald one.

18. Compromise does not mean that we abandon our position in favor
of yours.

19. Sports Illustrated is a better magazine than Cosmopolitan.

Just accept that.

20. It's in neither your interest nor ours to take the Quiz together.

21. Unless you are willing to follow the careers of Mo Vaughn, Cal
Ripken, David Robinson,Mats Sundin, Michael Jordan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
and
Chris Farley, don't expect us to know what Helen Gurley Brown,
Hilary Clinton, Naomi Wolf or your mother are up to.
22. Sex on a weeknight is generally welcome. Three hours of
post-coital conversation is not.

23. Dinner out is a pretty good birthday present. Two tickets to a

hockey game are even better.

24. No, you can't have the remote control.

25. If you must take us with you into Victoria's Secret, never,
ever leave us alone. All the old fat ladies make mean faces
at us and only add to our discomfort.