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Two In A Million: Twins Born - One Black, One White
Sky News ^ | July 17, 2008

Posted on 07/17/2008 3:48:53 PM PDT by nancyvideo

Twins with different skin colors — one black and the other white — have been born in Berlin, Germany. The twin boys, named Ryan and Leo, are the offspring of a mixed-race couple

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


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To: martin_fierro

Chimara?


21 posted on 07/17/2008 4:10:13 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Popman

Do you consider yourself the same person?


22 posted on 07/17/2008 4:11:22 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

Are you even vaguely aware of the definition of “identical twin”?

Noun
S: (n) identical twin, monozygotic twin, monozygous twin (either of two twins developed from the same fertilized ovum (having the same genetic material))


23 posted on 07/17/2008 4:15:24 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: nancyvideo
the obama effect.

He'll say it's a sign from God.

24 posted on 07/17/2008 4:16:06 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (maybe apes evolved from people.)
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To: Disciplinemisanthropy
say all of that again, only this time in twin speak

The correct term is idioglossia, which my brother and I never engaged in.

Though we have a couple of times posted on FR almost verbatim posts on the same thread within seconds of each other with 2,200 miles between us

25 posted on 07/17/2008 4:17:02 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: mgstarr

Are you the same person?


26 posted on 07/17/2008 4:19:30 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

It’s yes or no.


27 posted on 07/17/2008 4:20:39 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

Are you cognitively impaired in some way?


28 posted on 07/17/2008 4:21:04 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: the invisib1e hand

well I hope one does not grow up to be a “typical white person” as defined by The One.


29 posted on 07/17/2008 4:22:16 PM PDT by pennboricua
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To: mgstarr

Both ways, why do you ask?


30 posted on 07/17/2008 4:23:14 PM PDT by allmost
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To: Jo Nuvark

There was a show on TLC (I think) about a woman who had two different sets of DNA. The doctors said that she had started off as fraternal twins. She absorbed the other twin and it caused her to have this other set of DNA.


31 posted on 07/17/2008 4:23:31 PM PDT by retrokitten (Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.)
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To: nancyvideo

They are only half part of Michael Jackson: Black & White. The other half is boy and girl.


32 posted on 07/17/2008 4:23:33 PM PDT by paudio (Like it or not, 'conservatism' is a word with many meanings. Yours may be different from mine.)
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To: allmost
Do you consider yourself the same person?

I'm not going to debate the long established medical definition of what a identical twin is with you.

That question you are asking is so obvious a straw man argument it isn't worthy of a response, but to help you understand the obvious

My brother and I have the same DNA (identical) but are two different people.

Identical twins are not clones as your question proposes

33 posted on 07/17/2008 4:23:58 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: allmost

Alrighty then. Have a nice day =)


34 posted on 07/17/2008 4:24:36 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: mgstarr

It’s all good. :)


35 posted on 07/17/2008 4:26:19 PM PDT by allmost
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To: Popman

My grandfather is an identical twin. Because of WWII, he and his brother were never really home at the same time for a few years. Well, on of their nephews, who was only 3 or 4 years old at the time, had never seen them together. They had leave at the same time and went to their sister’s house. The nephew saw them together and freaked out! LMAO He ran into the yard and wouldn’t come in until his dad told him what was going on.


36 posted on 07/17/2008 4:28:03 PM PDT by retrokitten (Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.)
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To: Popman

Isn’t it also possible that the mother had sex with different sperm donors within days of conception?


37 posted on 07/17/2008 4:28:39 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: retrokitten
A cute story along the same lines.

My brother come to visit with his wife after my first son was born, he was about a year old. I has still not gotten home from work when he arrived. My son thought he was me and sat in my brothers lap as we always do when I come home. My brother basically played along after all my kid was one year old

Well, his wife sat down next to him real close and gave my brother a kiss.

I'm told by my wife, she had never seen a little kid give an adult a dirty look like my kid did to my brother wife, he threw laser beams at her. Who was this strange women kissing my dad???

I walk in the door and he does a triple look and jumped off my brothers lap as fast as cat, he didn't go near him for almost a day.

38 posted on 07/17/2008 4:39:26 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: Popman

LOL!! That is really cute!


39 posted on 07/17/2008 4:40:51 PM PDT by retrokitten (Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.)
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To: nancyvideo

When the two twins grow up, only one of them can use “the n-word.”


40 posted on 07/17/2008 4:42:04 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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