Re: Why do people still get married?

On May 13, 5:14 pm, Paul L. Madarasz <madpl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_172.html
>
> Damn!  Forgot to preface the URL with  OTB:IF.
> They're not going to take away my Opus Points (TM), are they?

They'll just give you mine, instead, since I've never compleatly
figured this idiom out.  I begin by translating the 'O' as
"obligatory", but then I switch in midstream[1] to "off track
betting".

[1] in both the metaphorical and computer senses.

/dps