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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:28 AM
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Help! What's that riddle where your relative is you?
You know, the one where it lists all the relations and it turns out to be you? "Who is your father's mothers son's daughter's brother?" That one. Anyone remember how it is worded so that it works with both men and women? I need it for something I'm writing.

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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:31 AM
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1. ...
"Brothers and sisters, I have none. That man's father is my father's son." or
"Brothers and sisters, I have none. That woman's mother is my mother's daughter."
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:33 AM
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2. Yeah, that one. Thanks, Kitschy Witch!
Edited on Tue May-02-06 03:34 AM by Hissyspit
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:35 AM
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3. Anytime, sir!
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caty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 06:38 AM
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4. Here's another one: I am my own Grandpa!
Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
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