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CharlieH.
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It's All Relative...

Here's a "suicide note" culled from an old book of mine... read carefully:

"I married a widow with a grown daughter. My father fell in love with my step-daughter and married her - thus becoming my son-in-law, and my step-daughter became my mother because she was my father's wife.
My wife gave birth to a son, who was, of course, my father's brother in law, and also my uncle for he was the brother of my step-mother.
My father's wife became the mother of a son, who was, of course, my brother, and also my grand-child for he was the son of my daughter.
Accordingly , my wife was my grandmother because she was my mother's mother- I was my wife's husband and grandchild at the same time -- and, as the husband of a person's grandmother is his granfather -- I AM MY OWN GRANDFATHER!"


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Miss Bunnypenny
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Re: It's All Relative...

Wow... that made my head hurt just thinking about it!!  big_smile


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the_librarian
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Re: It's All Relative...

Hiya,

Great post...great riddle...I don't have a clue, but still thinking!

This sounds like my bosses at work...trying to figure out what they want me to do!

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Lost Soul
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Hahah! I was frying my brain listening to Eight To The Bar singing that all last week! lol

Here's the skinny courtesy of http://www.wwco.com/gean/grandpa/  :

I'm My Own Grandpaw
by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe
In the '30s, Latham had a group, the Jesters, on network radio; their specialties were bits of spoken humor and novelty songs. While reading a book of Mark Twain anecdotes, he once found a paragraph in which Twain proved it would be possible for a man to become his own grandfather. In 1947, Latham and Jaffe expanded the idea into a song, which became a hit for Lonzo and Oscar. 


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the_librarian
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Re: It's All Relative...

Great Job!  I had just about given up!!!


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