Category Archives: Humor

A Q By Any Other Name Would Smell Less Dumb

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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The Lonely Cleaning Man(iac) Of Sonderhausen

In a story that even Ripley might not believe, a woman in Sondershausen, Germany has apparently divorced her husband for cleaning too much.

Reuters reports that the guy not only did chores, but tidied up and even – gasp! – rearranged the furniture.  He did get a little carried away, however, by actually knocking down and rebuilding a…

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Love In The Time Of Calculations

C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
Han Solo: Never tell me the odds.

Photo courtesy Balakov, via creative commons license.

Divorce is so prevalent nowadays that getting married at all sometimes seems like successfully navigating an asteroid field. So how do you know if your True Love…

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Love, Lies, The Internet – And A Prelude

You’ve heard of the Nigerian 419 scams: Millions are sitting in a bank account for you because some poor sap met his end on a West African Highway, or the Nigerian government overpaid on a procurement contract, or because a Nigerian company can’t move the funds to an American bank without an American citizen, etc. All they need is…

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When He Offers to Split the House 50/50, He Means It

Reuters reports that a divorcing man in Sonnenberg, Germany apparently took his divorce settlement into his own hands when he chainsawed his summer house in half.  He then took his half of the home away on a forklift truck.

Not to be outdone, Cambodian Moeun Sarim sawed his rural primary residence in half and then he and his…

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What To Get For That Friend Who Used To Have Everything

You already give your friends birthday gifts, baby gifts, and wedding gifts.

Why not give divorce gifts, too? It’s likely, after all, that your divorcing friend will have roughly half the stuff that she or he used to have.  Not to mention, she or he may need a little humor / venting / revenge fantasy to pass the time.

Speaking…

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