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AR JOKESTER: Divorce Barbie

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Buyers' Choice Realty

A Father is shopping for a Barbie Doll for his five year old daughter.  He looks at The Business Barbie, The Veterinarian Barbie, The Doctor Barbie, The Engineer Barbie, The Teacher Barbie, all of them priced at only $19.99. 

 

Then he notices "The Divorce Barbie" priced significantly higher at a whopping $ 199.99.  The father can't understand the huge price difference, so he asks the clerk:

 

"Why are all these Barbies only $ 19.99, yet the Divorce Barbie is priced so much higher?"

 

The clerk responds:  "Why, Sir, that is ‘The Divorce Barbie'; she comes with Ken's house, Ken's cars and Ken's best friend!"

 

 

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Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

There you go...sent.  Enjoy!

Sep 15, 2008 02:45 PM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

Scott:  Awesome!  They are a riot!  I will use them in a future post.  ...Well... almost all of them!

Thank you very much, Scott!

Sep 15, 2008 02:49 PM
Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

My pleasure Mirela.  Sounds like it's going to be an interesting blog.

Scott

Sep 15, 2008 02:54 PM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

Scott:  Stay tuned!

Anyone interested in contributing to my upcoming Barbie doll blog, please send me your "alternative Barbie doll" pictures:

Mirela@BuyersChoiceSC.com

Thank you!

Sep 16, 2008 05:47 AM
Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

Post-Menopausal Barbie. This Barbie wets her pants when she sneezes, forgets where she puts things, and cries a lot. She is sick and tired of Ken sitting on the couch watching the tube, clicking through the channels. Comes with Depends and Kleenex. As a bonus this year, the book "Getting In Touch with Your Inner Self" is included.

 

You can also look for:

Bifocals Barbie. Comes with her own set of blended-lens fashion frames in six wild colors (half-frames too!), neck chain and large-print editions of Vogue and Martha Stewart Living.

Hot Flash Barbie. Press Barbie's bellybutton and watch her face turn beet red while tiny drops of perspiration appear on her forehead. Comes with hand-held fan and tiny tissues.

Facial Hair Barbie. As Barbie's hormone levels shift, see her whiskers grow. Available with teensy tweezers and magnifying mirror.

Flabby Arms Barbie. Hide Barbie's droopy triceps with these new, roomier-sleeved gowns. Good news on the tummy front, too-muumuus with tummy-support panels are included.

Soccer Mom Barbie. All that experience as a cheer-leader is really paying off as Barbie dusts off her old high school megaphone to root for Babs and Ken, Jr. Comes with minivan in robin-egg blue or white and cooler filled with doughnut holes and fruit punch.

Mid-life Crisis Barbie. It's time to ditch Ken. Barbie needs a change, and Alonzo (her personal trainer) is just what the doctor ordered, along with Prozac. They're hopping in her new red Miata and heading for the Napa Valley to open a B&B. Includes a real tape of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do."

Recovery Barbie. Too many parties have finally caught up with the ultimate party girl. Now she does Twelve Steps instead of dance steps. Clean and sober, she's going to meetings religiously. Comes with a little copy of The Big Book and a six-pack of Diet Coke.

 

Sep 16, 2008 10:42 AM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

Scott:  It has become obvious that my next Barbie doll blog will have a co-author:  YOU!

I will use a lot of your comments, then add my own and I will e-mail it to you.  You can tweek it & send it back and then we can both post the same blog to different groups. 

What do you say?

By the way, it is obvious that several of these middle aged Barbies are NOT on bio-identicals yet!

Sep 16, 2008 11:16 AM
Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

While I can't take credit for all of the above post, I would be happy to help you write a blog.  However, I am not interested in posting it myself - there's just something a bit creepy about a 38-year-old man writing about Barbies in his blog.  Maybe I will do a "Ken" blog and link it to yours...

"Metro" Ken - Comes with a man-bag ("Murse") containing skin moisturizers, hand cream, hair gel, and back-wax.  "Limited Edition" version has a certificate for a petticure and spa treatment.

Scott

Sep 17, 2008 12:32 AM
Jon Wnoroski
America's 1st Choice RH Realty Co., Inc. - Green, OH
Summit County Realtor

Life was so much simpler when there was only one Barbie!  lol   Those post boomers will exploit anything.  I love the "divorce Barbie," however; it certainly gets right to the point!

Sep 17, 2008 12:49 AM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

Scott:  You had me in stitches this morning when I read your comment on my blackberry.  My clients must have thought I was going "nutty" on them, so I had to share.  They were soon giggling with delight.  Hilarious!  Thank you for brightening up my our morning!

Sep 17, 2008 04:25 AM
Everard Korthals
---Preferred Lifestyle Advisors--- - Lancaster, PA
Mountain Realty

Very funny, and so true. It's good to be divorce barbie lol.  

Sep 17, 2008 05:16 AM
Bob Cumiskey
A1 Connection Realty, Inc. - Sun City Center, FL
US Army Retired, Your Sun City Center, Florida ~ Realtor

Mirela, This was truly funny.  Just what I needed to get me over the hump.....day.

Sep 17, 2008 06:17 AM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

I love this post and the comments here have made it what it is: a true joy!  Thank you!

Sep 17, 2008 05:00 PM
Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

I keep coming back to this blog whenever I need a good laugh...I also found a couple more Barbie pictures...here is one, and I have e-mailed you a couple that I will not post (but found funny)...

Oct 05, 2008 01:27 AM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

OMG Scott!  This is so...  I'm fresh out of words...

We really do need to collaborate on those Barbie-Ken blogs.  What do you say?

 

 

Oct 05, 2008 09:38 AM
Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

LOL If you really want to, I'm game...it wouldn't take me long to come up with a Ken one...pictures might be harder to find though...

Oct 05, 2008 11:26 AM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

Scott:  Let's do it!  You get Ken; I get Barbie.  Let's post one by the end of the week!

Let the games begin!

Oct 07, 2008 01:57 PM
Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

Well, I am almost done my blog...just fine tuning (in fact, doing my spell check, I realized that I spelled "pedicure" wrong in my above comment.  Ah, well...

Heres what I have so far (descriptions left out to maintain the "shock" factor):

  • "Biker" Ken® 
  • "Metro" Ken®
  • "Alternative Lifestyle" Ken®
  • "Homeboy" Ken®
  • "Transgender" Ken®, er, Barbie®, er, Ken® (Who knows?)
  • "Gangsta" Ken®
  • "Pimpin'" Ken®
  • "White Trash" Ken®
  • "Married Life" Ken®
  • "Aussie" Ken®
  • "Crash-Test" Ken®
  • "Ripped-Off-In-The-Divorce-Settlement" Ken
  • "Twelve-Step" Ken
  • "Hacker" Ken® (Formerly "Web Site Designer" Ken®)
  • "Mid-Life Crisis" Ken®
  • "Internet Porn Addiction" Ken®
  • "Catholic" Ken®
  • "Blue Collar" Ken
  • "Steroid" Ken®
  • "Workaholic" Ken®

I am thinking of droppng a couple of these, as the blog got longer the more I laughed.  Do you want to exchange notes before I post?  If we are going to be "linked", they should look somewhat similar...

Oct 08, 2008 10:24 AM
Mirela Monte
Buyers' Choice Realty - North Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach Real Estate

Scott:  yes, but how do we do it?

Oct 08, 2008 10:27 AM
Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

Gee - good question.  I guess I will e-mail you everything but the descriptions... I am not very good at formatting, so my pictures will just be inserted in line with the text.  If my blog fits what you were going to do, I will post it, and will link to yours after you post.  Actually, since it was your idea, you should post first, and tell me where it is posted so that I can post to the same sites.  We should also link them in title (I never even thought of a title - I was following your lead).

Oct 08, 2008 10:47 AM
Scott Owens
Halifax, NS

I just e-mailed it...I left the description on a couple that I want your opinion about...you'll see why...

Scott

Oct 08, 2008 11:11 AM