
“my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens”
“my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens”
“There's no such thing, like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans.”
"Business"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)
“I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (2004), p. 18
Statement of 1966, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC News (1 March 2002)
1960s
“Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,
With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.”
"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)