Are You Likely to Marry?

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Thanks to the Find Folk(s) over at the World O'Crap Blog, we bring you this marriagibility quiz:

1. Do you like most people at first meeting?
2. Are you careful about personal grooming?
3. Do you have three dates a month or more?
4. Are you under 29 years of age?
5. Would you marry a man two years your junior?
6. Is your weight about average for your height?
7. Are you conservative and conventional in behavior?
8. Is it easy for you to make friends?
9. Do your parents like the men you date?
10. Do men often admire your clothes and the way you wear them?
11. Have you gone steady within the past two years?
12. Do you like to do favors for people?
13. Were you dating by the time you were 17?
14. Do you attend many parties and dances?
15. Are most of your girl friends dating or engaged?
16. Do you belong to several clubs and organizations?
17. Do you live in a town or farm community?
18. Are you certain you want to marry soon?
All of these questions should be answered "yes." With a score of 15 or more, your prospects for marriage are good. With a lower score, study your incorrect answers for hints for improvement. If age or other circumstances are against you, that's all the more reason to overcome other handicaps.

oh, and the quiz was first published in the December 1949 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal. Can anybody find an equivalent UK bit of post-war patronizing fun?

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

damn. 14, just short. guess that's a life on the shelf for me...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Be sure to check the Tide advert that accompanies that quiz, with a blissful housewife being overly affectionate to a box of washing powder.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Thirteen for me. Colette! How shall we ever overcome our handicaps?

(Kingfish, really I don't think much has changed, esp. if you look at things like The Rules etc. I just think less people care now.)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I got a 5, which figures.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

12. yay!!!!!!!!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

10 - I'm getting married in April

― chris (chris), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

16. Do you belong to several clubs and organizations?

Does ILX count?

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 8 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

10. im marrying chris in april

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

he wants emile heskey as the best man though, or at least, he did till that traore feller popped up.

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

three dates a month!!!??!

more like a year...

scored 8. although i didn't bother translating any questions involving "men" to "wimmin", or maybe it supposed to be like that to try and prove that it's harder for a man to marry.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

this quiz is too hard.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm a little concerned about the 'clothes and how you wear them' bit. is this the 1949 version of him asking if you'd like some fries with that shake or something equally slimy?

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

9 - looks like i should start looking for a cat.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

17. Do you live in a town or farm community?
Because if you don't live somewhere where there's people, your marriage prospects are pretty shitty.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder what "improvements" I could make, though. Attend more parties/dances? Start becoming more conventional in behavior?

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

8 - maybe I should rethink this whole thing (life, that is)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

as the blogger points out,

"See, the key to getting married is to go on lots of dates (ideally, while you're going steady), to do favors for people (such as marrying them), and to be conventional, like everybody else."

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

8 - I'm surprised it was so high.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

― joday (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

10.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't understand english

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait a minute, if you score 15 out of 18 questions, your prosepects for marriage are only "good"?

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

― Allyzay, Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

9. Mind you, I knew I was the leftover at the bottom fo the casserole dish anyway.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

13. Better tell Matt he's got me against the odds...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Only American women ever get married. Fuck knows who to. Maybe dolphins. A foot long and prehensile!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

you so cray-zeh

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

3. Do you have three dates a month or more?

I just laughed my way down an elevator shaft.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

13, damnit! *starts dialing...*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the idea that you could answer yes to all the question except the Do you actually want to get married, and still be more than likely to get married. Its written in the stars!

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Based on what I was like just before I got engaged, I would have got three. Oh well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

4. :(

I'm not sure getting married is that "conservative" these days. Most my friends who get hitched after like dating for 6 months are kind of ~~stupid~~ liberal.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Agree with bnw, i think theres a false conservative/liberal dichotomy about marriage today, when the dichotomy is far more likely to be middleclass/workingclass

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i cant imagine many middle class people rushing up the aisle at age 19, or after knowing each other only 6 months. not sensible you see, wait till you've finished your studies kid etc. so, marriage is actually kind of rebellious. rather like religion these days

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

14. Alas.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Only 12, oh no.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone I know who married early came from a middle/upper-class background.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

And most of them involved pregnancies, "shattering" the weird comments I've heard several times lately vis a vis the concept that teen pregnancies don't happen in nice neighborhoods I guess.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

7. Whateva

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of people I know got married early because it meant you got to move out of the single barracks and into housing off post. Or they got married quickly because it meant they had a better chance of getting stationed together at their next assignment. And the few people I know from college who have gotten married were also all from middle/upper class backgrounds.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

None of my friends have gotten married. Thank god.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

3! Wahoo, I'm not getting married in the morning!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

5. the shame.

― Melly E (Melly E), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"study your incorrect answers"

HAhahahaha!!! I love it!!!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you have three dates a month or more?

My question about this question: do they mean three dates with the same person as in you go out at least three times a month or do they mean three dates as in three separate people? Because if it is the latter I don't think that's a very good sign you're about to marry any time soon at all.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Hmm. A couple of those were pushing it too.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I was wrong - 11.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe 10 or so. I better start planning a wedding.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Married to da voibe"

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone should reword the quiz to test for that.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 8 January 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that someone the AOLer Translator?

― Allyzay, Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

what happened in the last 4 hours to luna?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

the first song at my wedding will be "da funk".

Or maybe "Me No Pop I". I'm never going to get married with this attitude but if I do, it'll be ace!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Nine. Congratulate me for scoring that low when I'm, well, you know, straight out of the 1950s. ;)

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Got a 6.

Oh well. It was nice knowing you, you plucky religious sacrament, you.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

You will HAVE that religious sacrament and you will LIKE it. < / ZombieNightmare >

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

six, if you translate genders

― babelgender (mookieproof), Friday, 9 January 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm. Seven. And I look so good in a morning suit, too.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 9 January 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

5, apparently. possibly 6.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 9 January 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 9 January 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

outdated horrible standardized whitebread middle american moral quizzes in being a total horseshit waste of my time shocker. Everybody's fired.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 January 2004 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I am likely to be married right now.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 9 January 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and I got a 5.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 9 January 2004 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

13
but what does it do to your score if you've already been married? have i used up my allotment?

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 9 January 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i got six, phew, safe.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 9 January 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

only three, hurrah.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 January 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i hope 2) is one of them

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 9 January 2004 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

sadly not.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 January 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

this really is the worst quiz of this type that i've ever seen

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 January 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck me. Am I the ONLY ILXor who qualifies?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 9 January 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I got a 10. I didn't answer yes to #1, because I honestly couldn't decide.

Hi Mark!

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 9 January 2004 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Me either. It's a stoopid question. Of course I instantly hate some ppl on site, others I merely dislike!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 January 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes exactly! And then there are my many levels of apathy.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 9 January 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

*nods* indeed.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 January 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

8 on genderswap. i have no intention of ever marrying, anyway.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 9 January 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

5, arrrr.

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Friday, 9 January 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi Sarah! Does your result mean I'm going to have to look for someone else? ;)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 9 January 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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