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Any notary can do it in Florida but I doubt they really check on who calls themselves a minister. The guy who did our ceremony offered but we didn't have a license at the time. It would have been bigamy anyway. ;-)

My wife dug up a female minister but I'm not sure what flavor. She did have some attachment to reality. We were married in the RPI chapel and there was a HVAC grate in front of the altar. "If you drop the ring, just keep on going like nothing happened. We'll dig it out later."

All of those are anecdotal .... define: foolish, excited, incomprehensible?

What may be foolish, excited, or incomprehensible to you, may be interesting, encouraging, or a different language to someone else.

Why bother with a minister then? The accountant at the hotel they were staying is probably a notary. That was what we did.

To quote my favorite Leftie "Pot, Kettle, Black"

You a communist or not?

It does sort of remind me of my first wedding. Her parents insisted on a church wedding and none of us had a church. The preacher literally asked "Why Me"? My FIL said "Here's why" and handed him $100. We ended up taking out vows in some back room but it was technically a church wedding I guess. I really didn't give a s*it.

The funny thing is people may get married in a church but at least half of them fail and they end up having to go to the government to get out of it.

You can simply look at the Jewish tradition that predates Christ by

You made me think of my first husband. He's going for marriage #3, to a practicing Catholic. Every few months I get a questionnaire from the Archdiocese of Youngstown asking me questions about our marriage. We were married for four years and divorced 36 years ago. I can barely remember it.

They also ask about my religious background. I probably should have lied and never said I was baptized a Lutheran.

Cindy Hamilton

Wrong, as always.

More ignorant bullshit.

A Catholic annulment is not a divorce. It's a decision that there was some impediment to the marriage so the marriage never was valid.

It is a problem for people who have divorced, remarried, and now want to get back into the Church, often for the sake of the children. They have to work up some grounds for an annulment of the first marriage which isn't easy.

It's not a consideration but oddly if I wanted to become a Catholic in good standing I'm in better shape according to canon law than many divorced Catholics. Neither my wife nor I ever remarried so we're not living in adultery. I confuse people by referring to my wife rather than my ex, but though I'm not religious I do feel marriage is a one time deal. She is a practicing Christian and while she never explicitly says it I think she is relieved.

Yeah, that's a delicate situation. Technically my father was excommunicated for marrying my mother who was a divorcee. Luckily by the late '60s things had loosened up enough that they are both buried in a Catholic cemetery and it didn't require a suitable donation to the priest although donations were appreciated.

My family was cynical enough that most kids received a Catholic baptism. If they wanted to marry a Catholic they were good to go. If not, I don't think the Prods were as sticky as long it was some sort of Christian baptism.

I understand but if you think the church married you, catholics and jews think the church has to release them from that marriage or they just say f*ck the church I'm out of here.

I may have been excommunicated for marrying in the Greek Orthodox Church but when our first son was born and we went to the Catholic Church to get him baptised, they pulled us back into a side chapel and married us in the Catholic Church.

I was at a rehearsal dinner for a Jewish friends son marrying a Catholic girl in the Catholic Church and the half drunken priest told me that if the girl wanted she could divorce the Jewish guy and remarry in the Church since he was a heathen. Thought that was funny.

My brother got an annulment to get remarried in the Catholic Church even though he had four kids by his first wife. It took several years and they called me in to testify and I told them that he was too immature to be married the first time. Will not give details but he was doing things you would not expect an engaged person to do.

While all of our sons were baptized in the Catholic Church we did not burden them with a religious upbringing. They have thanked me for that.

That's wrong with the jews.

That's the hard part of an annulment, convincing them the first marriage had enough flaws that it really wasn't a valid marriage. Nobody ever said Catholics aren't good at logic chopping, particularly the Jebs.

I was baptized but one year during Boy Scout week when they said you should attend church with your family I made the fatal mistake of asking "What's church?" .

I did have some inkling. A babysitter had dragged my in a church on Good Friday where you were supposed to silently pray for 2 hours and then kiss a crucifix lying on a purple satin pillow on your way out. iirc I had a few nightmares about that.

By the time I got shuffled off to 'religious instruction' every Wednesday afternoon I'd worked out my own animistic view of how the world works. It did not include the concept of sin or the need for salvation from sin and that's really the core of Christianity.

It's not 1955 any more and McCarthy is dead and gone. Not everyone with whom you disagree is a Communist.

It's axles. The spread out rear axles on some trucks change it a little but on conventional setups you can have 34,000 on the drivers and rear duals, 12,000 on the steering axle for a total of 80,000 GVW. Most trailers have sliding rear axles so you can change the weight distribution.

Some states have a limit on the axle to axle dimensions or the length from the kingpin to the rear axle. I had one load where I slid the rears back to make the Montana coop but in North Dakota I was too long. Cost a hundred bucks but they let me go on.

I don't know what the limit is on a U-Haul trailer.

That's the deal with the spread rear axles. The standard tandem axles are about 5 feet apart and you're allowed 34,000 pounds. Spread them out to 10' apart and you can have 20,000 on each axle. The GVW still is

DOT regs don't always make a lot of sense but the coop dwellers are happy to explain them as they're writing the ticket. I had a load so close I had to take the tire chains off the hangers on the truck and throw them in the back of the trailer to get a couple of hundred pounds off the drivers.

NO, it's not! Babble is about individual interpretation of what they hear people saying.

That is probably what it was. They were happy when I got about 200 pounds in the passenger seat. It also moved more tongue load to the truck since the stuff came out of the back of the trailer. The max trailer weight was painted right on the trailer. That may have been the deal too. I had been driving 12 hours by then and I wasn't fresh when I started. I really just wanted to get going and I might have thrown something in the trash to get out of there. Funny thing. A cup of truck stop coffee and 20mg of Biphetamine "and my eyes were open wide" for that last 200 miles.