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[GDJustin]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12172905-13762,00.html


Online adulterers actually man and wife
From correspondents in Amman
February 07, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse


A BUDDING romance between a Jordanian man and woman turned into an ugly public divorce when the couple found out that they were in fact man and wife.
Separated for several months, boredom and chance briefly re-united Bakr Melhem and his wife Sanaa in an Internet chat room, the official Petra news agency said.

Bakr, who passed himself off as Adnan, fell head over heels for Sanaa, who signed off as Jamila (beautiful) and described herself as a cultured, unmarried woman - a devout Muslim whose hobby was reading, Petra said.

Cyber love blossomed between the pair for three months and soon they were making wedding plans. To pledge their troth in person, they agreed to meet in the flesh near a bus depot in the town of Zarqa, northeast of Amman.

The shock of finding out their true identities was too much for the pair.

Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced" - the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam.

"You are a liar," Sanaa retorted before fainting, the agency said.

 

[COCKLES]

Self ownage at it's finest.

 

[WedgeX]

They owned...themselves?

That's saying something if you try and cheat, and end up with the same person you were cheating on.

 

[demon]

Anyone remember that little 10 minute movie posted a while back, The Parlor or something? O shit that was funny. :lol Reminded me of that.

 

[shuri]

Sounds terribly fake.

 

[GDJustin]

I thought it was a shame that their online affair didn't help them realize why they fell in love with each other in the first place, and work out their difficulties.

 

[SteveMeister]

Life imitates art.

Jimmy Buffet's "Escape":

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long.
Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed.
And in the personals columns, there was this letter I read:

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me, and escape."

I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean.
But me and my old lady, had fallen into the same old dull routine.
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half-bad.

"Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape."

So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said, "I never knew"..

"That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the lady I've looked for, come with me, and escape."

"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
I'm the love that you've looked for, come with me, and escape."

Just, without the happy ending

 

[GLoK]

Anyone remember that little 10 minute movie posted a while back, The Parlor or something? O shit that was funny. :lol Reminded me of that.

haha, anyone actually have a link to that? That was a classic

 

[radioheadrule83]

Technically, maybe it is a happy ending?

They both wanna fuck other people, and now they don't have to go through the pains of breaking it to one another while thinking that the other is completely faithful. That said, it sounds like there might have been something that still attracts them to one another. Even if it does sound terribly fake.

I don't know why people aren't just honest with each other.

 

[yoshifumi]

I thought it was a shame that their online affair didn't help them realize why they fell in love with each other in the first place, and work out their difficulties.

yea that would've been nice

 

[hobart]

Life imitates art.

Jimmy Buffet's "Escape":



Just, without the happy ending

Way to go picking that up (Amazing how many do not know the plot of that song )

 

[Foreign Jackass]

Life imitates art.

Jimmy Buffet's "Escape":



Just, without the happy ending

HAHAHAHA





HAHAHAHAHAHA
That song rocks.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced" - the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam.

I knew Allah was a Beetlejuice fan, but this is ridiculous.

 

[RiZ III]

Self Ownage to the extreme

:lol :lol

 

[Blackace]

Seems like they were almost divored anyways...since they were making wedding plans.. and who has ever heard of online romance in the year 2005 with pictures?!

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

There are Jimmy Buffett fans on this board?! Amazing, people with taste!

(note to those with no taste - it's ok, really.)

 

[Meier]

Definitely thought of Escape immediately when I saw the title.

 

[Kobun Heat]

So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said YOU ARE DIVORCED, DIVORCED, DIVORCED