Posted on 10/20/2014 1:00:00 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
This story about a divorce in the United Arab Emirates begins in not-so-unusual fashion: A wife refuses to sleep with her husband, and he is not pleased.
Then it gets weird: She tells him to talk to her parents, who explain that their daughter can't have sex with him because she is, in fact, a supernatural creature called a jinn that the BBCequates to a genie. This results in divorce. But if the excuse was a tall tale, the joke's on the ex-wife, because a court in Dubai ruled that she is not entitled to alimony, reports Gulf News.
Reason? She wasn't honest about the genie matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
Never cared for blonds. With one exception...
I Dream of Jinnie.
A stunningly beautiful woman—Barbara Eden.
Big controversy over her costume—she was not allowed to show her navel because of the network censors.
makes perfectly good sense ... a genie can magically make her own money without draining it out of her Ex..
If she cannot have marital relations with him, then the marriage isn’t consummated. If the marriage isn’t consummated, how can she be due alimony?
What they are calling Alimony is probably her Bride Gift which is a monetary gift to her from her husband to support her if he should divorce her.
My mother(God rest her) wouldn’t let me and my two older brother watch “I Dream Of Genie’’. She didn’t cotton to us little boys watching Barbra Eden running around in that skimpy little get-up.
Would that be Forrest’s Jinnie?
First, they are best equated to an arabic leprechaun, which predates islam. Unlike angels and demons, they are neutral players that exist mainly to provide suitable scape goats when the facts lead in an unacceptable direction.
For example, when the male member of an important and powerful family was the only person in the wedding party who could have possibly abused the village goat, everyone quickly agrees that the real culprit is a mischievous jinn.
In the West, we have the saying that once you eliminate the impossible, the improbable, no matter how unlikely, must be accepted. In muslim lands, especially arabia, that isn't true. When faced with an unsettling probability as the only possible explanation, they reach into their hat and pull out a jinn, as the only acceptable culprit. They have built up more and more powers, as the need for explanation become wilder and wilder.
In the first season, when it was in black and white her costume was a bit more revealing.
Putting this into terms that Johnnie Cochran would understand...If you do not consummate, the ex will not compensate...
I’m pretty sure that genie didn’t have a problem with sex.
I am blonde, so is my husband. I don’t like blackheads!
Thanks,Ben.
What I would have given to hear her say to me “Oh,yes,Master...” in the way she would say it.
Just as well.
Inter-mortality marriages never work out.
Their kids wouldn’t have lived forever, just a really long time.
On the 7th day, God created Redhaead to give Blonds something to aspire to
But barring that...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ol4oWChjzk
;)
It's still incomprehensible to me that Larry Hagman looked back on that show with such disdain.
All that and apparently an AZ girl too!
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