I would recommend a wonderfully humorous piece by Lori Borgman posted recently on www.jewishworldreview.com, in which she described how "irreconcilable differences" in a marriage can be reduced to 25 words or less so that a couple can spend less time arguing and more time getting along.
AlthoughI believe I finally found the article by Lori Borgman, to which Ben referred, in the archives. By the time it reached the archives, the solution was down to "15 words or less": http://jewishworldreview.com/0206/borgman021006.php3