OT Things to ponder

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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No.

...but they would be double-cousins.

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

...but they would be double-cousins.

With double chins?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: witpqs

...but they would be double-cousins.

With double chins?

Consider four people, unrelated, marry & have children as follows: A + B -> C, and X + Y -> Z. C and Z are not related.

Consider that A and X are siblings. A + B -> C, and X + Y -> Z. C and Z are first cousins.

Consider that A and X are siblings, and B and Y are siblings. A + B -> C, and X + Y -> Z. C and Z are double cousins.

[8D]

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

ORIGINAL: witpqs

...but they would be double-cousins.

With double chins?

Consider four people, unrelated, marry & have children as follows: A + B -> C, and X + Y -> Z. C and Z are not related.

Consider that A and X are siblings. A + B -> C, and X + Y -> Z. C and Z are first cousins.

Consider that A and X are siblings, and B and Y are siblings. A + B -> C, and X + Y -> Z. C and Z are double cousins.

[8D]

So you are saying they would be second cousins? [;)]

[geofflambert]

What if the two brothers and two sisters had the same two parents who happened to be fraternal twins? I was born in West Virginia, I've heard of things like that. [:'(]

[Lecivius]

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[BillBrown]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

What if the two brothers and two sisters had the same two parents who happened to be fraternal twins? I was born in West Virginia, I've heard of things like that. [:'(]

Would they be Gorns? [8D]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I was born in West Virginia, I've heard of things like that. [:'(]

That explains a lot!

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

What if the two brothers and two sisters had the same two parents who happened to be fraternal twins? I was born in West Virginia, I've heard of things like that. [:'(]

Then one would be Green Goblin and the other Nightcrawler. [8|] [;)]

[geofflambert]

There's a wyrmm loose in the forum. Everyone take cover.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

There's a wyrmm loose in the forum. Everyone take cover.

Here there be dragons! [:D]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

There's a wyrmm loose in the forum. Everyone take cover.

Here there be dragons! [:D]

The Gorn Riders of Wyrmm?

[Lecivius]

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[Lecivius]

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[Lecivius]

Aw, fuhgedaboudit

[geofflambert]

I know what Lecivius was complaining about. It was this: http://www.omaha.com/news/world/italian ... b4fb1.html

I'm sorry but this is an unacceptable preversion by an Italian prevert. When I was a boy scout, they taught us that before giving mouth-to-mouth you were to take a needle and pin the subject's tongue to his lip to keep him from swallowing his tongue and choking to death on it (a needle and thread were a part of our kit we were to have on our persons at all times). Then you were to blow hard into his mouth while holding his nostrils shut three times. Next you were to do chest compressions for about 5 to 10 times (I don't remember how many). Nowadays they say skip the mouth to mouth and just do chest compressions. If the guy swallows his tongue and you don't blow it back out with your compressions, you're not pressing hard enough. This Italian sailor endangered this poor little kitten's life by engaging in this preverted desire to do something French in its mouth. I would be militating for charges to be filed against him, but somehow the kitten survived. I will now be able to feed a live kitten to one of my lady gorn friends.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

Aw, fuhgedaboudit

Help. He tries to hex me.

[;)]

[geofflambert]

There's this commercial about a "***ck", let's call it an Endeavor. I hope there's no car model under any label named "Endeavor", but if there is it's their fault, not mine. Let's not let me get too far out of hand griping about car commercials. The only ones that talk about features instead of trying to sell how the car looks talk about how their model will apply the brakes without your permission. Now I'm going to envision myself as an insurance company executive and try to figure out my risk exposure to letting a car company, my client, install technology that will take over the operations of an automobile from the otherwise insurable driver. Our experience with the AI in this game should lead all of us to never purchase such a car. There will nonetheless be lots of people who will. Maybe they will think "well, if you know, like maybe I'm texting and not watching where I'm driving and the car will take over and keep me from killing anyone". All the car ads that are for cars without that feature mostly show apple pie and kittens to give us a warm feeling about their automobile. I guess all cars are the same as long as they have apple pie and kittens in them. We can quibble about how much cinnamon is in the pie or how cute the kittens are, but that's where the auto industry seems to be stuck, whether foreign or domestic. Well, I really have a different axe to grind today. Remember that actor dressed up like a cowboy sitting on a horse and this woman writhing in the dirt was crying "Jesse, don't leave!" and the cowboy said "I'm a loner and a loner's got to be alone" and he rides off and gets knocked off his horse by a graphic on the screen and the woman cries "Jesse???, Jesse?". Pretty funny really but not effective because I don't remember what the ad was for. Anyways, that actor is a little itty bitty guy, maybe 5'2" if that. He was in a car commercial about a year ago and when he stood next to the car he was trying to sell that car's roof was higher than the top of his head and it looked yuuuuuuuuuge. So anyway, this vehicle I'm calling an "Endeavor", it is being sold as an SUV. It looks to me like it's a compact car that is made to look like an SUV and I've tried hard to envision it as an SUV. I just can't pull it off. End of Rant for the Day.

[scout1]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

What if the two brothers and two sisters had the same two parents who happened to be fraternal twins? I was born in West Virginia, I've heard of things like that. [:'(]

If you were truly born in WV, you would have used the correct description "West By God Virginia"
Those of us born there, know this .......[:-]

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I know what Lecivius was complaining about. It was this: http://www.omaha.com/news/world/italian ... b4fb1.html

I'm sorry but this is an unacceptable preversion by an Italian prevert. When I was a boy scout, they taught us that before giving mouth-to-mouth you were to take a needle and pin the subject's tongue to his lip to keep him from swallowing his tongue and choking to death on it (a needle and thread were a part of our kit we were to have on our persons at all times). Then you were to blow hard into his mouth while holding his nostrils shut three times. Next you were to do chest compressions for about 5 to 10 times (I don't remember how many). Nowadays they say skip the mouth to mouth and just do chest compressions. If the guy swallows his tongue and you don't blow it back out with your compressions, you're not pressing hard enough. This Italian sailor endangered this poor little kitten's life by engaging in this preverted desire to do something French in its mouth. I would be militating for charges to be filed against him, but somehow the kitten survived. I will now be able to feed a live kitten to one of my lady gorn friends.

Every time I hear "prevert", I think of Dr. Strangelove and the following immortal line...