# My wife is an idiot, I think I have no choice but to divorce her **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 25, 2008, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174 "2008-06-25T08:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/41 "2008-06-25T18:47:02Z")
Take me down to the prairie dog city, where the grass is green, and the girls are pretty ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/42 "2008-06-25T18:47:06Z")
My best friend when we were in college: “We should go to the Lallapalooza concert this summer. What songs do they do again?” :smack: I was dropping him off at the airport for his flight. Him: “Why are you going to the ‘departures’ area and not the ‘arrivals’?” Me: “Why would I go to the ‘arrivals’ area?” Him: “Because we’re arriving.” :smack: (15 years later and he’s a VP of a Fortune 100 company) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/43 "2008-06-25T19:12:35Z")
Reminds me of an MTV reporter who asked President Clinton who his favorite musical artists were. After he responded, her natural follow-up was: “Really? Who was The Loneliest Monk?” :rolleyes: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/44 "2008-06-25T19:52:09Z")
**Ginger** , just tell **Dave** , " Excuse me while I kiss this guy". That should really piss him off. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/45 "2008-06-25T20:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Might as well face it, you’re a dick with a glove. ~Robert Palmer [/QUOTE] [/Kirk voice] If…only I’d known, I…could have had “A Dick With A Glove”…as my Dopername [/end Kirk voice] :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/46 "2008-06-25T20:47:32Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] Reminds me of an MTV reporter who asked President Clinton who his favorite musical artists were. After he responded, her natural follow-up was: “Really? Who was The Loneliest Monk?” :rolleyes: 😛 [/QUOTE] Huh? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/47 "2008-06-25T20:53:42Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] Huh? [/QUOTE] Thelonius (sp?) Monk ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/48 "2008-06-25T20:58:07Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Thelonius (sp?) Monk [/QUOTE] Ah. Not a jazz aficionado, but I appreciate it as an art form. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/49 "2008-06-25T21:47:53Z")
**Dave and Ginger** , you guys crack me up. [QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness, or latent myopia, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. Underlining mine. > **[Mr. Magoo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Magoo)** > > Quincy Magoo, referred to as Mr. Magoo, is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced for many years by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his extreme near-sightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. However, through uncanny streaks of luck, the situation always seems to work itself out for him, leaving him no worse than before. Bystander... [/QUOTE] Technically, teela was still correct, because bats aren’t blind. 😛 > [@](#): > > Although the eyes of most microbat species are small and poorly developed, leading to poor visual acuity, it is incorrect to assume that they are nearly blind. Vision is used as an aid in navigation especially at long distances, beyond the range of echolocation. > **[Bat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bats)** > > (present): > (traditional): > Bats (order Chiroptera /kaɪˈrɒptərə/) are winged mammals, the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and one of the smallest extant mammals, is Kitti's hog-nosed bat, which is 29–33 mm (1.1–1.3 in) in length, 150 mm (5.9 in) across the forearm and 2 g (0.071 oz) in mass. The largest bats are the flying foxe... ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/50 "2008-06-25T22:12:19Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] Technically, teela was still correct, because bats aren’t blind. 😛 > **[Bat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bats)** > > (present): > (traditional): > Bats (order Chiroptera /kaɪˈrɒptərə/) are winged mammals, the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and one of the smallest extant mammals, is Kitti's hog-nosed bat, which is 29–33 mm (1.1–1.3 in) in length, 150 mm (5.9 in) across the forearm and 2 g (0.071 oz) in mass. The largest bats are the flying foxe... [/QUOTE] Blindness is, of course, a continuum. If I knew their visual acuity, then compared it to that of Mr. Magoo, and his was better… Ah hell. If we were shooting pool, that would be the equivalent of a “slop” shot. Bar room rules (ball stays down because we can’t get it back)? OK. Do we know if Mr. Magoo was using echolocation to find his way around? ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174/51 "2008-06-26T16:22:52Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] _Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Marantz_ [/QUOTE] Thanks a lot, **lieu** – I hummed “Bob Marantz” all the way to work today, all because of you. :mad: 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-an-idiot-i-think-i-have-no-choice-but-to-divorce-her/454174.md?page=2)