Sausages and uncles
Dec. 4th, 2007 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusI'm working on my novel just now, so here's a Sausage Family I found on the wall of Vienna's Naschmarkt last week:
In my novel I'm working on a little problem: how could two men be each other's uncles? Hisae and I were on the U2 line on Sunday when we saw these two men on the platform:
Hisae said "Do you think they're father and son?" and I replied "No, I think they're each other's uncles." We then spent a long time working out whether this was possible, and how. It's actually a really difficult problem, and I'd like to hear your answers. I now have two ways they could be each other's uncles, but one only works if one of the men is the other's great uncle.
In my novel I'm working on a little problem: how could two men be each other's uncles? Hisae and I were on the U2 line on Sunday when we saw these two men on the platform:
Hisae said "Do you think they're father and son?" and I replied "No, I think they're each other's uncles." We then spent a long time working out whether this was possible, and how. It's actually a really difficult problem, and I'd like to hear your answers. I now have two ways they could be each other's uncles, but one only works if one of the men is the other's great uncle.
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Date: 2007-12-04 09:12 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest_in_popular_culture
I love wikipedia's random assortment of "* in popular culture" and "List of famous *s" pages.
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Date: 2007-12-04 11:18 am (UTC)HE´S MY NEPHEW HONEST
Date: 2007-12-04 11:44 am (UTC)...
Date: 2007-12-04 11:58 am (UTC)They are each other's ankle.
Alex P.
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Date: 2007-12-04 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: ...
Date: 2007-12-04 11:35 pm (UTC)Feel free to copyleft my wittyness in your novel, if you like!
Alex P.
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Date: 2007-12-04 11:41 pm (UTC)Feel free to copyleft the joke, if you'd like.
cheers
Alex P.
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Date: 2007-12-04 01:12 pm (UTC)This much I know is correct. I'm not gonna post anymore theories until I'm 99% sure.
*goes to get more paper*
PS. Fuck you for posting this question.
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Date: 2007-12-04 01:37 pm (UTC)Your mother has a brother, your uncle. Your mother fucks your greatgrandfather and gives birth to you, her son. You are your grandparent's half brother as well as their grandson.
If you're still with me and you haven't yet been either perplexed into stupor or so disgusted by the implications of this that you've stopped reading, this is the anwser (as I originally suspected): It's impossible to be your uncle's uncle, but you can be uncle's half uncle if your mother IS A TOTAL FUCKING WHORE AND REALLY REALLY GROSS.
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Date: 2007-12-04 02:11 pm (UTC)Also, you could substitute "father" for either instance of "mother" in that first sentence and it would still work.
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Date: 2007-12-04 02:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-04 02:42 pm (UTC)It's Chinatown, Jake, forget about it.
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Date: 2007-12-04 03:49 pm (UTC)Extraterrestrial love, dude!
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Date: 2007-12-04 05:20 pm (UTC)by means of time machine
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Date: 2007-12-04 11:43 pm (UTC)They could be selling on each others stolen goods.
This is very simple
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Date: 2007-12-05 05:34 am (UTC)100% true
Date: 2007-12-07 01:02 am (UTC)Owing to a sordid family drama involving teenage pregnancy, an allegedly prophetic dream, and hints of Masonic conspiracy, my (doubly maternal) great-grandmother and her (sterile) second husband were named my legal custodians when I was aged 16 months. Adoption followed a few years later.
Neither was a pop star and they did not live in a flat, but that is beside the point.
From her first marriage, my mother-slash-great-gran had a daughter, my sister-slash-grandmother. Her son, being the full brother of my biological mother, is thus my uncle/nephew.
Biologically, he is my uncle; by law, I am his.
Fortunately, no chromosomes were harmed in the making of this family ouroboros.
Re: 100% true
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