classification of relationships that cannot be defined by traditional family titles or by in-law(s) -- relationships usually evolve through divorce, common-law marriage or couples who have children together but never marry
When Amy, the wife of Kate's ex-husband, wrote an article about Beth, Kate's current husband's ex-wife, some of their other-laws were confounded to realize that Amy and Beth's ships had not only passed; they had collided!
by Vivifier May 14, 2020
Get the other-lawsmug. 
Get the step-great-grandchild-in-lawmug. by Pseudonummm num num April 22, 2023
Get the Wife-in-Lawmug. Great-great-great-grandson's wife.
My great-great-great-granddaughter-in-law is a good person.
by JAMP12 September 21, 2021
Get the great-great-great-granddaughter-in-lawmug. "You can 'watch 'n' observe' as carefully as you please while driving and you will still miss your turn-off, and so no amount of continued 'Oh, I'm sure it's just around the next curve" tootling further down the road will bring you to it. But if you do actually decide to turn around and go back to see if you did inadvertently pass your desired intersection, it will of course NOT be 'back there', and you will subsequently find out that you'd been within just a few hundred yards of it at the point when you'd turned around, and so you simply wasted gas and time by backtracking; it had indeed been 'just around the next corner', and so you'd have reached it the first time if you simply hadn't been so gol-durned impatient."
I missed my turn-off during a road-trip because I was carefully watching out for traffic and thus never noticed the side-road I wanted --- classic case of Murphy's Law of Intersections!
by QuacksO May 18, 2019
Get the Murphy's Law of Intersectionsmug. Godwin's Law states that "the longer a heated Internet discussion goes on for, the more likely it is that someone will compare their opponent(s) to Hitler, the Nazis, or Nazi Germany in general."
Anyone who invokes Godwin's Law in an argument is said to automatically lose by default, even if it is perfectly reasonable; because if you resort to comparing your opponent to arguably the most evil dictator in the world obviously implies that A) You know you're wrong, B) You've run out of ideas, and C) You're a sore loser and want to make your opponent look bad, even though it does the exact opposite.
The only (incredibly rare) exception is if the person is legitimately comparable to him (for example, if they are massively racist, especially anti-Semitic, for no discernible reason), but even then it usually still has the same result.
The only (incredibly rare) exception is if the person is legitimately comparable to him (for example, if they are massively racist, especially anti-Semitic, for no discernible reason), but even then it usually still has the same result.
by Ubeenbamboozledson October 13, 2022
Get the Godwin's Lawmug. As soon as your coworker takes a day off, everything that can burn to the ground, will burn to the ground. Leaving you and only you to deal with it.
It's Chris' day off and now half my staff quit, the server room exploded, and a honey badger decided to make a home inside my desk. Wrightson's Law at work.
by Taraun July 4, 2020
Get the Wrightson's Lawmug.