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To: wimpycat; cajungirl

I think it is fair to say that I am somewhat intelligent, but once you two started talking about cousins, I could not follow anything you'all said. It was like you were speaking another language.


3,133 posted on 03/11/2005 6:30:27 PM PST by ontos-on
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To: ontos-on

You are a yankee, right?


3,139 posted on 03/11/2005 6:33:48 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: ontos-on

It's very easy once you get the hang of it, like learning to count back change properly. Siblings have the same parents. When siblings have kids, those kids are each other's first cousins. First cousins have one set of common grandparents. When first cousins have kids, all their kids are second cousins to each other. Second cousins have at least one set of common great-grandparents. When second cousins all have children, those children are third cousins to each other. Third cousins have at least one set of common great-great-grandparents. Earlier I mentioned I had a teacher who was my first cousin twice removed. She was my grandaddy's first cousin, that's all it means. She was his first cousin and I'm two generations removed from my granddaddy, hence first cousin twice removed.


3,160 posted on 03/11/2005 6:46:32 PM PST by wimpycat (Hyperbole is the opium of the activist wacko.)
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To: ontos-on
That's what is so fascinating about FR. You get to eavesdrop on conversations about various cultures.

Sometimes it's quite an eyeopener, eh?

3,426 posted on 03/12/2005 6:14:43 AM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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