What a difference a century makes

Michael Theleman is looking for a wife the old-fashioned way.

Yard Sign Says Man Will Pay For Virgin Child Bride

Theleman has caused an uproar in the southwestern Oklahoma town of Bray with his search for a bride.

He put a sign in his yard Sunday saying he'll pay $1,000 for a virgin bride between the ages of 12 and 24.

One of his neighbors said she feels like she's living near a pedophile.

As of Wednesday, there were no offers.

Theleman said he doesn't understand. He said his grandmother married "a much older man" at age 14.

After complaints, he put up a new sign Wednesday without the ages. The new sign said he's not interested in a "pig-worshipping, heathen, white-supremacist wife."

Fortunately for Theleman the district attorney agrees that the first sign was legal. Unfortunately for Theleman, he isn't likely to get a lot of replies to either one.

A hundred years ago Theleman probably still would've riled his neighbors with the first sign, but only because it indicates a man too lazy to go out and find a bride. Early marriages were not uncommon - the frontier being dangerous and life spans shorter, you had to grow up quick and get started on a family.

A century later and Theleman is lucky he is free to post the second sign which, we must admit, certainly narrows the field slightly. Nothing an Okie hates worse than a pig-worshipping, heathen, white supremacist.

But he's already tipped off the neighbors, and no doubt the new sign won't make 'em any happier.

For the Record - Never been to Bray but we googled it just to make sure. Just slightly out of the way, in more ways than one.