1. Marriage is not a word. It's a sentence (a life sentence).

2. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore marriage is an institution for the blind.

3. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her masters.

4. Marriage is a three-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.

5. Married life is full of excitement and frustration: In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens.In the third year, they

both speak and the NEIGHBOUR listens.

6. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends.You order what you want, and when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that instead.

7. There was this man who muttered a few words in the church and found himself married. A year later he muttered something in his sleep and found himself divorced.

8. A happy marriage is a matter of giving and taking; the husband gives and the wife takes.

9. Son: How much does it cost to get married, Dad? Father: I don't know son, I'm still paying for it.

10. Son: Is it true Dad? I heard that in ancient China, a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her. Father: That happens everywhere, son, EVERYWHERE!

11. Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

12. They say that when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is love; after marriage it is self-defense.

13. When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a 10-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.

14. There was this lover who said that he would go through hell for her. They got married, and now he is going through HELL.

16. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

17. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America, the rest cheat in Europe.

18. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin. They just can't face each other, but they still stay together.

19. Marriage is man and a woman become one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

20. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After the marriage the "Y" becomes silent.

21. I married Miss right; I just didn't know her first name was Always.

22. It's not true that married men live longer than single men, it only seems longer.

23. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

24. A man was complaining to a friend: I HAD IT ALL-MONEY, A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, THE LOVE OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, THEN POW! IT WAS ALL GONE. WHAT HAPPENED, asked his friend. He says MY WIFE FOUND OUT.

25. WIFE: Let's go out and have some fun tonight. HUSBAND: OK, but if you get home before I do, leave the hallway
lighs on.

26. At a cocktail party, one woman said to another: AREN'T YOU WEARING YOUR RING ON THE WRONG FINGER? The other replied, YES, I, AM. I MARRIED THE WRONG MAN.

27. Man is incomplete until he gets married, then he is finished.

28. It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.

29. A man inserted an ad in the paper - WIFE WANTED. The next day he received a hundred of letters and they all said the same thing - YOU CAN HAVE MINE.

30. When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing - either the car is new or the wife isr

This penguin was having car problems, so he pulled his car into the garage for a check-up. The mechanic points at the restaurant across the street and says, "Go over there and get a bite to eat, and I'll take a look." The penguin does exactly as he says.

After a while he waddles back, and the mechanic is looking under the hood. The penguin asks him if he's been able to figure out what went wrong. The mechanic glances over his shoulder and says, "It looks like you blew a seal."

The penguin quickly wipes his mouth and says, "Oh, no, no --That's just tartar sauce."

This penguin was having car problems, so he pulled his car into the garage for a check-up. The mechanic points at the restaurant across the street and says, "Go over there and get a bite to eat, and I'll take a look." The penguin does exactly as he says.

After a while he waddles back, and the mechanic is looking under the hood. The penguin asks him if he's been able to figure out what went wrong. The mechanic glances over his shoulder and says, "It looks like you blew a seal."

The penguin quickly wipes his mouth and says, "Oh, no, no --That's just tartar sauce."

Two married buddies are out drinking one night when one turns to the other and says, “You know, I don’t know what else to do Whenever I go home after we’ve been out drinking, I turn the headlights off before I get to the driveway. I shut off the engine and coast into the garage. I take my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, I get undressed in the bathroom. I ease into bed and my wife STILL wakes up and yells at me for staying out so late!”

His buddy looks at him and says, “Well, you’re obviously taking the wrong approach. I screech into the driveway, slam the door, storm up the steps, throw my shoes into the closet, jump into bed, slap her on the butt and say, ‘You as horny as I am?’ … and she always acts like she’s sound asleep!”

Well I posted the last pictures of our holiday today and unfortunately as I blogged previously what will be our last pictures here on NN. Maybe we will return, who knows but it is quite a sad moment.

Only yesterday we got an email from another faceless pictureless moron and I think it is worthwhile blogging about it. OK, it isn't derogatory or deeply offensive as many of the recent ones we have received but I'd like you to see what genuine people like ourselves have to be prepared for. Jealousy? Maybe but I cannot understand their basic mentality.

Why, oh why if they dislike our content, don't they simply move on? Our comments on the pictures and those of our friends have always strived to be witty, maybe not always so <lol> but at least we have made an effort and what is wrong with that?

Physically, neither of us are perfect, we have lumps and bumps in places we don't like but we are proud of what we are and our inner selves. We don't need to post our pictures here at all but will admit that it is a lovely buzz getting a good comment and realising that someone else out there may well like us. Call it exhibitionism, call it insecurity...whatever but it does no harm and may well raise a smile (or even more)on other people - WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT? In total we have had over 5,000 genuinely appreciated comments in the 12 months - everyone posting can't be wrong can they, which is a comfort.

If you put the PM below along with the inane comments by the poster "MEN72", god bless him, you can see what I mean. Here is a small sample:

"i really like u so much bcause u r hot mature old lady i love old large mature ladies so much and u r from that kind makes me hot i wish i could be ur man for the rest of my life to have fun with u every day every time and makes u deeo hot wet cum i really love that idea of opeing ur legs and deep see ur cunt but not see also suck licking deep fucking u until u get cum and have big great orgazem i like u so much because u r the greatest lady at that galaxy"

Somebody really aught to give him some English lessons and a new chat-up technique, but I guess he is harmless enough. At least he is complimentary even if only in his own strange way lol. The other PM's, the derogatory comments, the low "1" voters we certainly won't miss at all but the other nice people on NN we certainly will. I will stay lurking for a while and who knows, maybe Mr & Mrs gozap might rise from the ashes like the Phoenix sometime in the future if we miss you all too much.

Until then, sample the literal delights of JONJON127. Don't try and look at his profile, he hasn't got one, or any pictures - what a surprise.

I was going to PM him back but why waste my time, I have more productive things to do like scraping dog sh*t from my shoes.

So to all out there, goodbye at least for now and it has been a real pleasure

D & A

Poster:
"JONJON127"

Subject:
"YOUR PICS AND ALL THE BULLSHIT YOU SEND WITH THEM"

Content:
"I'VE HEARD A LOT OF CRAP IN MY LIFE, BUT YOURS TAKES THE CAKE. YOUR WIFE LOOKS LIKE A VERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, BUT YOUR EXPLOITING OF HER WITH ALL YOUR CRAPPY RHETORIC IS A SLAP AT ALL WOMEN.

JJ"

To all you lovely NN people out there,
I have, with great sadness, to say that after the current batch of holiday photos are used up I will no longer be posting. I will be leaving our pictures up for a while but eventually removing them and maybe only stay around as lurker.

I would love to thank all the wonderful people here on NN that have contributed to the many witty and humerous comments over the last 12 months.

I have made some wonderful friends here on NN but now feel that it is time to call it a day. We have once again been subject to some not too nice PM's and comments, many of them removed as being a Premium member you can thankfully do this, but to be honest it is tiring and annoying that the trolls seem to spoil a lot of people's pleasure and are winning in putting off the genuine posters and viewers.

Also, in the last few weeks we have lost a number of our favourite posters who have decided the same thing and either pause or stop posting. Mrs Dirty_Sweet and MDGuy (what a diamond) has also voiced their opinion that they are stopping posting so it just seems the right thing and time to do.

Once again I would like to extend a big thank-you for the comments which were extremely funny, showing a great sense of humour, these were undoubtedly the best thing to cheer up the dismal winter days here in the UK in the last few months.

So, for you out there that are disappointed at our decision, you can look forward to at least a few more pictures before we call it a day at least.

Who knows, we may return at some time in the future, but for now thank you all once again.

Mr Gozap

It is really cold here at the moment at about -18 deg C and I found a brilliant satellite shot of the whole of the UK which shows the extent of the snow. In fact there isn't a bit of the UK that isn't white. They are predicting temperatures down to -25 this evening which is colder than the North Pole!!!

Well we have waited for just over 3 weeks for verification submissions to be accepted and at last we got the yellow shield. How sad, It feels like we just got awarded a junior school prize!

Still, thank you to the NN verifiers for bestowing on us this great honour which we will treasure and nurture. So, what do we do next...DOH!!

Mmmmhow about being a verifier,....well somebody has to do it and I had a chat with shy_briton but we need to be members for 6 months first. Anyway it's off to Italy for us on Sunday for a short break and some sunshine ...and some nice outdoor pictures hopefully.

Bye to all our NN friends especially Permagrin who has had a rough time but is grinning thro' it with lots of spirit. You lot behave now whilst we are away.

There aren't many things that get me sad but in the last 3 weeks we have had to have both our dogs put to sleep. They were both nearly 16 and have been our soulmates through the years and the house seems so quiet. Once one of them went the other simply gave up and really didn't have a quality of life being both deaf, blind, incontinent and obviously heartbroken. Those of you who have animals will know that having to make the final decision, although humane is the hardest thing in the world.

Funny isn't it. I have never shed a tear over any human who has passed away but both of us cried bucketloads over the last few days.

The initial impulse it to immediately go out and buy a replacement companion but we will leave it at least 12 months before we make a decision either way and see how we feel. Still we have lots of lovely memories and pictures and their memory will remain with us forever especially as they were both rescue dogs.

Will we get over it...yes, but in the meantime something seems to be missing in our lives. Hopefully the empty space in our hearts will heal. Hope that doggy heaven is ready, they were really mischievous.

Well, we seem to have an old friend who loves to post let us say "unsavoury" comments on our pics. This moronic individual has already set about Permagrin in the same way and has now moved onto us. K (Permagrin) in her blog was initally annoyed at the inane rantings of an obviously disturbed individual and then cleverly turned her thoughts around to feeling honoured...the blog entry is well worth a read.

We have taken very much the same tack. Obviously this disturbed individual is desperate for a platform to display his/her (but I think itis a He) mastery of the English language to the world and so we have given him a stage to display his wit and reparti to the univers. In fact it is now quite interesting as he has managed to string more than 3 words together (even though he still obviously soesn't know where the shift lock key is).

So, let us all rejoice in this fact that we are aiding in the education of a sorry soul and helping to rehabilitate them back into a social sphere contsining a higher form of life. Anyway, being a highter form of life than a single celed amoeba wouldn't be difficult would it .

We could set up a new national sport of creating "CONCISE CRASS COMMENTS" with a society headed by our honourable leader ITSMEAGAIN1962.

Meanwhile we await his latest literary masterpiece to overshadow "WHAT A TROGG" and "SHE THINKS IT TOO BIG, SHE FUCKING RIGHT" amongst many others.

Welcome to the free world, I say, and rejoice in the fact that no matter how badly off you may feel there is always a sadder bastard than you lurking in the shadows. The nice thing is though that you will feel better tomorrow, but for ITSMEAGAIN1962 it seems like it is a life sentence.