a young man finds the woman of his dreams and asks her to marry him. he tells his mother he wants her to meet his fiance, but he wants to make a bit of a game out of it. he says he'll bring the girl over with two other women and see if his mother can guess which is the one he wants to marry. his mother agrees to the game. that night, he shows up at his mother's house with three beautiful young ladies. they all sit down on the couch, and everyone has a wonderful evening talking and getting to know each other. at the end of the evening, the young man asks his mother, 'oK, mom, which one is the woman i want to marry?' without any hesitation at all, his mother replies, 'the one in the middle.' the young man is astounded. 'how in the world did you figure it out?' 'easy,' she says. 'i don't like her.' there were three guys talking in the pub. two of them are talking about the amount of control they have over their wives, while the third remains quiet. after a while one of the first two turns to the third and says, "well, what about you, what sort of control do you have over your wife?" the third fellow says "i'll tell you. just the other night my wife came to me on her hands and knees." the first two guys were amazed. "what happened then?" they asked. "she said, 'get out from under the bed and fight like a man'."