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07:36 August 21st, 2006

Go slower - I’m trying to write these instructions down!

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

Pay attention, or you’ll lose the thread of logic here. This woman’s husband divorces her, see, by saying the word “divorce” three times, and it’s considered official, even though he was really drunk at the time.

What to do, what to do? Well, Islamic clerics have ruled that the woman can remarry him, but there’s a slight catch: first, she has to marry another guy, who’s 70 years old, for one day, and then get a divorce from him.

Here’s the story:

4 comments so far

Dude — this was an episode of “Taxi”.

- Posted by John C Abell

EXACTLY! Only I didn’t think many people would get that reference. But yes, it’s as if somebody just changed the names in that old two-parter!

- Posted by Robert Basler

“Sex or death? Sex or death?

“Why don’t you tell me a little bit about yourself?”

- Posted by John C Abell

Now THAT’S Comedy!

- Posted by Robert Basler

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