Decoupling Seattle Family Law and Divorce Blog » Humor http://decouplingblog.com Explaining and Discussing Washington Family Law Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 On the 12th Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me… http://decouplingblog.com/2011/12/on-the-12th-day-of-christmas-my-true-love-gave-to-me/ http://decouplingblog.com/2011/12/on-the-12th-day-of-christmas-my-true-love-gave-to-me/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:51:00 +0000 liz http://decouplingblog.com/?p=4041 …a very public divorce plea.

An as yet unidentified individual in Reading, England has chosen a very public medium for her one-item Christmas list.  Says the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper:

With just 12 days to go until Christmas ‘Jude’ decided to spread her own festive message by stringing up a banner alongside the M4 motorway proclaiming: ‘For Xmas Dan,

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]]> http://decouplingblog.com/2011/12/on-the-12th-day-of-christmas-my-true-love-gave-to-me/feed/ 0 Stabbed in the Heart? The Divorce Ring Lets You Say It With Diamonds. http://decouplingblog.com/2011/09/stabbed-in-the-heart-the-divorce-ring-lets-you-say-it-with-diamonds/ http://decouplingblog.com/2011/09/stabbed-in-the-heart-the-divorce-ring-lets-you-say-it-with-diamonds/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:53:25 +0000 liz http://decouplingblog.com/?p=3905 In the market for an expensive bauble to commemorate your recent legal decoupling?  You’re in luck.  For the low price of $3,200.00, you can be the proud bearer of an 18k gold “divorce ring.”  The ring features four diamonds, subtly arranged to resemble a stake, and set in the middle of a broken, 14k gold heart.

Shine on, you…

]]> http://decouplingblog.com/2011/09/stabbed-in-the-heart-the-divorce-ring-lets-you-say-it-with-diamonds/feed/ 0 Mr. and Mrs. John Smith Cordially Invite You to Join Them In Celebration of the Divorce of their Daughter Susie from that No Good, Cheating… http://decouplingblog.com/2010/07/mr-and-mrs-john-smith-cordially-invite-you-to-join-them-in-celebration-of-the-divorce-of-their-daughter-susie-from-that-no-good-cheating/ http://decouplingblog.com/2010/07/mr-and-mrs-john-smith-cordially-invite-you-to-join-them-in-celebration-of-the-divorce-of-their-daughter-susie-from-that-no-good-cheating/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:04:04 +0000 liz http://decouplingblog.com/?p=3697 It’s summer, the season of weddings.  Ah, weddings, those meticulously organized displays of love and commitment with all of their conventional trappings:  the white satin dress!  The champagne toasts! The flowers!  The cover bands belting out “We Are Family”!  The buffet lines!

Many weddings today are the result of months – if not years – of stressful planning, and lots…

]]> http://decouplingblog.com/2010/07/mr-and-mrs-john-smith-cordially-invite-you-to-join-them-in-celebration-of-the-divorce-of-their-daughter-susie-from-that-no-good-cheating/feed/ 0 (Assault And) Battery With Pink Battery-Powered Objects http://decouplingblog.com/2009/07/battery-with-pink-battery-powered-objects/ http://decouplingblog.com/2009/07/battery-with-pink-battery-powered-objects/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:10:20 +0000 topher http://decouplingblog.com/?p=2770 The St. Petersburg Times reports:

A woman has been arrested after accosting her live-in boyfriend with a pink sex toy.

Yes, it’s true. Intoxicated Kimberly Lynn Calvert of Treasure Island, Florida was charged with battery for poking her boyfriend John Anthony Gonzales several times  in the groin.

Naturally, he called 911.

You might think this is…

]]> http://decouplingblog.com/2009/07/battery-with-pink-battery-powered-objects/feed/ 0 Consequences Of Infidelity, #3 – Yard Signage http://decouplingblog.com/2009/07/consequences-of-cheating-3-yard-signage/ http://decouplingblog.com/2009/07/consequences-of-cheating-3-yard-signage/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:17:30 +0000 topher http://decouplingblog.com/?p=2492 We’ve previously reported on two repercussions of extra-curricular activities - twins with different fathers and getting assaulted by the angry spouse 30 years later. Now we  learn of another – yard signage.

Poor Linnie apparently went on a business trip, only to come back to find this in his front yard.

Oh, to be a fly on…

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“I get a lunch break! All to myself!” she exclaimed. “When I was at home with the kids I felt lucky if I could…

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This may well be apocryphal, but yeah, I don’t really think this is the technique recommended by those self-help mavens on how to tell your kids about your divorce….

Maybe the best takeaway is from a comment on digg.com:

thebasshacker
8 hr 50 min ago First rule of social networking:

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]]> http://decouplingblog.com/2009/06/honey-i-forgot-to-tell-the-kids-about-our-divorce/feed/ 0 The Troglodyte Man Child Of Bedford http://decouplingblog.com/2009/06/dad-calls-cops-on-grown-son-for-not-cleaning-his-room/ http://decouplingblog.com/2009/06/dad-calls-cops-on-grown-son-for-not-cleaning-his-room/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:33:36 +0000 topher http://decouplingblog.com/?p=2060 Andy Mizsak of Bedford, Ohio is 28, already a member of his local school board, and an “independent political consultant.”

Sounds like he has a bright future ahead of him.

If only he’d clean up his room. In the basement. Of his parents’ house.

Don't worry, parents, he'll grow out of it....

Cleveland.com reports that Andy had a fight…

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1.7 million Chinese folk have downloaded an online video of a woman who basically goes nuts after her husband (or boyfriend; it’s unclear) refuses to buy her the car she wants at a Shanghai dealership. Shanghai…

]]> http://decouplingblog.com/2009/05/shanghai-car-dealer-surprise/feed/ 0 A Q By Any Other Name Would Smell Less Dumb http://decouplingblog.com/2009/05/a-q-by-any-other-name-would-smell-less-dumb/ http://decouplingblog.com/2009/05/a-q-by-any-other-name-would-smell-less-dumb/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 18:31:51 +0000 topher http://decouplingblog.com/?p=1907 In America, there are freedoms that we just come to take for granted, because, you know, we’re so great and all. Like the inalienable right to name your kid the most idiotic name you can possibly think of (pretty much guaranteeing that he’ll be forcibly stuffed into a locker by 3rd grade, by some guys named Chet and Todd, then…

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