"THE BRIDE GETS A SHOWER,
BUT FOR THE GROOM IT'S CURTAINS."

"MAN IS INCOMPLETE UNTIL HE'S MARRIED,
THEN HE'S FINISHED."

Generations of comics have paid the bills with jokes about reluctant grooms and man-hungry spinsters. But it wasn't always so; there was a time when men couldn't get married fast enough. Granted, it was in the dim and distant past (anything from 25,000-30,000 years ago) but their eagerness would have stemmed from similar desires for security and position as might have fluttered in the heart of any Victorian miss or marriage-hungry maiden.