Roy Moore, you ain't no Humphrey Bogart and there is no comparison between a

[rzemanfl]

14 year-old Alabama schoolgirl and 19 year-old Lauren Bacall who already had a seven year Hollywood contract. So have your shills STFU.

I saw this shit on Chuck Todd before dinner.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Don't need no stinkin Roy Moores.

[murielm99]

2. My first husband was twenty-two years older than I.

He did not ask me out until he was sure I was over eighteen. There were still generational issues we had to learn to navigate.

[rzemanfl]

3. I just could not stand the Alabama asshole on TV attacking Bogie and Bacall. n/t

[murielm99]

4. I know.

I love Bogie and Baby. People used to compare my first husband and I to Bogie and Baby. I was embarrassed at the time, but now it is kind of a nice memory. He has been gone for more than forty years. It was good while it lasted.

[rzemanfl]

5. People around here, and I am one of the worst offenders, are quick to use the words

"trophy wife." Your message is making me rethink that.

[treestar]

8. The age difference alone

does not make one a "trophy wife" so I don't think it is a bad term where used accurately. It has to include some idea that the relationship is not genuine but more of a trade off (i.e., Orange Baboon and Melodrama). She's there for him to show off, and she is there to have the big bucks, not because they have this deep connection to each other.

[rzemanfl]

9. I think it's e.g., but I surely agree and love your name "Melodrama" for the third lady. n/t

[WinkyDink]

6. Note to Chucklehead Todd: "Minor. Adult. It's not that difficult a concept, amirite?!"

[rzemanfl]

7. It wasn't Todd who said it, he was interviewing some Alabama Republican shill.

I myself was not aware of how much older Bogart was or how young Bacall was when they married and had to look it up.

[WinkyDink]

10. He's nonetheless the alleged moderator. As for age differences of adults, that's a distraction.

After all, the esteemed Justice William O. Douglas was 67 when he married 23-year-old Cathy Heffernan, having married his second wife when he was 64 and she was also 23.

That's why age matters only if one party is a minor.

[rzemanfl]

11. Oh, and I did not see what Todd did in response, because I turned off the TV.

To avoid projectile vomiting onto the flat screen.

[rzemanfl]

12. I lost a response here, I think. The information about Douglas was something I either didn't know

or forgot.

I will draw you a cap, gown and diploma.