The other day PIC was on the couch watching an old “Adam 12” rerun before he had to leave for work, and I ventured out of the “Fortress of Solitude” [read: my home office] to be sociable. Apparently, a woman on the show had the hots for the cop who always drove and he referred to her as a “300-pound daisy” and I guess the other guy was trying to get him to give her a chance, and he said, “She can cook and she’s clean.”

Bah-ha-ha-ha!

Setting the bar kinda low, eh?

So, this begs the question: do men prefer ‘clean’ women?

Or did men circa 1971 have different standards for what they wanted in a woman? Hmmm…

So I called my old buddy Roger. He said he likes them clean with a dirty mind. In the course of the phone call, he suggested that it might be that the 300-pound daisy had a clean criminal record, but to me, that didn’t seem fitting for 1971.

I wanted to ask Jason, my boss back when I had a good job, but I lost track of him when he moved to TN right before the GM plant shut down, but I didn’t have to ask. I know what he’d say: “DIRTY!!!!!!”

[A few years ago, one friend of mine said the only thing he was looking for in a woman was a pulse.]

But what about the women I know? Are they ‘clean’ or ‘dirty’? So I called Debbie – single mom, outdoorsy chick, laughed pretty hard, and said she’s 50/50.

I didn’t have to call Roxanne – I know she’d say she’s a dirty girl.

Me? I’m about 40/60 (clean/dirty) or sometimes even 30/70.

Note to self: If I ever decide to do the online dating thing again, must remember to include this in my profile in case it’s an important but overlooked quality men look for in a woman.