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In 1889 Tit-Bits [sic... presumably the 19th Century "tidbits"] magazine ran a contest for the best answers to "Why Am I A Spinster?"

BECAUSE matrimony is like an electric battery, when you once join hands you can't let go, however much it hurts; and, as when embarked on a toboggan slide, you must go to the bitter end, however much it bumps.

BECAUSE I have other professions open to me in which the hours are shorter, the work more agreeable, and the pay possibly better.

BECAUSE (like a piece of rare china) I am breakable, and mendable, but difficult to match.

BECAUSE I do not care to enlarge my menagerie of pets, and I find the animal man less docile than a dog, less affectionate than a cat, and less amusing than a monkey.

--Unearthed via Dr Bob Nicholson - that thread has more interesting stuff. (via)

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Just watched Hitchcock's Vertigo - maybe the first film to use computer graphics, albeit in a mechanical kind of way!