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| bhedo |
Posted
on 13-May-03 04:16 PM
Riddle by Mabel Poete. Try making a pedigree if you get confused.
'Twas long ago, in the days of witches and the "Bible Laws," that a mysterious old woman took up her abode in a cabin on the outskirts of a New England town. She was regarded with some curiosity and suspicion by her neighbors, and their questions concerning her family elicited such strange replies that she was finally conceived to be a witch, and brought before a magistrate on that charge.
"Who was your mother?" the judge inquired first.
"My daughter-in-law was my mother," the woman replied.
"And your father?"
"My stepson was my father."
"Have you no children?"
"My aunt was my daughter," she answered sadly, "and my only child, but she is long dead."
"And your grandfather?"
"My husband was my grandfather, but he is also dead."
"Well, your grandmother, who was she?"
"Alas," said the woman weeping, "I am my own grandmother and only living relative!"
"Now, by good Mather's shade," cried the exasperated judge, "either thou mockest me or thou art indeed a daughter of the Evil One, and thou shalt burn this day in the public square!" But the old woman said: "I speak only truth, and can explain the mystery if thou wilt but hear me!"
A little later she was dismissed, and the judge was giving to the public her explanation, which he declared to be quite simple and satisfactory.
The woman said: "My mother married the second time a man much her junior--the son of a widower. Curiously enough, I later married the widower. My mother then became my daughter-in-law, since she was the wife of my step-son; my step-son became my father, since he was the husband of my mother; I had a daughter, and she was also my aunt, being the sister of my father; my husband was my grandfather, because he was the father of my father; and, as the wife one's grandfather is one's grandmother, I became, of course, my own grandmother".
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| tick |
Posted
on 13-May-03 05:54 PM
Bhedo jyu,
This is one of my favourite song, goes along with your posting.
http://www.wwco.com/gean/grandpa/grandpa.wav
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| dangggg |
Posted
on 13-May-03 06:38 PM
dude,
that's a yucked up white trash relationship...... JERRY JERRY JERRY
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| tick |
Posted
on 13-May-03 08:39 PM
Welcome to the west.
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| a_sajhaite |
Posted
on 13-May-03 08:51 PM
aaaaabbbabewnsdsdcdfkbfgpvxzpoqwekd....khai.....
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| thepeacekeeper |
Posted
on 14-May-03 04:52 AM
Its got a catchy tune. I remember Tom Arnold singing it in some silly movie years ago. Forgot its name.
I'M MY OWN GRANDPA
Many many years ago
when I was twenty three,
I got 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 the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although 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
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
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.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!
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