# Least Efficient Ways to Leave Your Lover

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 27, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763 "2011-09-27T15:21:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/41 "2011-09-30T09:27:12Z")

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> [@Levolor\_the\_Blind](#):
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> Call him collect from Helsinki, Christine.

Ouch. Even for Finland, that’s cold.

Back on topic:

Sell all her belongings on CraigsList, Ingqvist.  
Boil her bunny for stew, Hugh.  
Start an “Ask the guy who’s think about leaving his lover” thread, Ed.

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**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/42 "2011-09-30T09:39:39Z")

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post it on facebook, muk-tuk.

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**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/43 "2011-09-30T13:43:06Z")

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Build yourself a spaceship, Chip.

Slow, very expensive, and likely to just get yourself killed doing it.

Oh, and take the Van Wick, Dick.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/44 "2011-09-30T13:43:35Z")

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Say “It’s not you, it’s me,” Lee.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/45 "2011-09-30T15:03:48Z")

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Have 5 kids and divorce her in a community property state, mate.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/46 "2011-10-01T05:03:48Z")

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Hit on her sister, Mister.

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**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/47 "2011-10-01T05:42:14Z")

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Stalk him on the Straight Dope, Hope.  
Follow his twitter, Matilder.  
Face his book, Snooks.  
Log her blog, Dawg.

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**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/48 "2011-10-01T06:51:29Z")

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Use a rope, Dope!

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/49 "2011-10-01T08:01:00Z")

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Wait til they confirm absolute zero, Nero

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/50 "2011-10-01T09:04:52Z")

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Travel to Utah; marry six more women. Because, although you don’t believe in divorce, you though it might a good idea to have some more wives, Clive.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/51 "2011-10-01T11:04:12Z")

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Submerge yourself in a river of molasses and dog paddle away from her during the month named after the Roman god Janus, you anus.  
mmm

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-efficient-ways-to-leave-your-lover/597763/52 "2011-10-01T13:55:45Z")

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Wait for Ariel Sharon to get better, Heather  
Use magazines to cut out each letter of your kiss off, Hoff  
Embed your goodbye in 1000 piece jigsaw, McGraw

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