{"id":15090,"date":"2016-09-22T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15090"},"modified":"2016-09-22T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T21:04:10","slug":"the-iron-maiden-poster-that-got-me-a-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/the-iron-maiden-poster-that-got-me-a-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Maiden Poster That Got Me A Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of you know, I met my beautiful wife on the Internet. Not the World Wide Web: We’re old school and met on the rec.arts.poems newsgroup. She read something that I’d posted and thought it was good, and because my handle indicated I was from St. Louis, she emailed me to ask me where one could read poetry in St. Louis. Which was a good question to ask me, as I was a frequent performer at open mic nights and could tell her where to read and what audiences in the different bars and coffee shops expected. <\/p>\n

So we struck up an email conversation an email conversation that stretched into hundreds of messages. We had a lot in common and connected pretty well–I’d read Atlas Shrugged<\/em> a couple of times, and she had a cat named John Galt. And so on.<\/p>\n

But I’m pretty sure the thing that sealed the deal was when I quoted an Iron Maiden poster to her.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m a little late to the heavy metal party. I had long hair in college and listened to some hard rock at the time, but not the evil<\/em> bands. Like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Sepultura, and all that. But one of the Daves I know, I know, was into that, and his bedroom circa 1990 was covered in Iron Maiden posters. Including the one for “Wasted Years”:<\/p>\n

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We were talking about something or other about our youth (given that we were twenty-five at the time, we were still in our youth), and I said something like “As Eddie from Iron Maiden would have said, ‘Do not waste your time searching for those wasted years.'”<\/p>\n

That, gentle reader, Sealed. The. Deal.<\/em><\/p>\n

You see, she was an Iron Maiden fan from way back, and she emailed to tell me that if I was an Iron Maiden fan, she was going to come to St. Louis to kidnap me. I demurred, and explained how I knew of it, but she was not dissuaded. But the points still counted on the tally of whether I was soulmate material. Enough to overcome the whole he lives in his mother’s basement<\/em> thing, anyway.<\/p>\n

So, thank you, Dave. You could never have known that your teenaged choice of personal expression in rebellious d\u00e9cor would help me win a wife, but it most assuredly did.<\/p>\n

In a slightly related note, once I married the girl, I got access to her Iron Maiden collection, and No Prayer for the Dying<\/em> is my favorite album followed by Seventh Son of a Seventh Son<\/em>. Not Somewhere in Time<\/em>, the album upon which the song “Wasted Years” appears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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