Re: RI October 2024

Paul S Person wrote:

Don wrote:
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<snippo: "George" is GeorgeIII or perhaps G. Washingon>

Is George destined to become his own grandpa?
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<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3CvRC4fAmk>
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   I'm My Own Grandpa: A Canonical Analysis
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   "I'm My Own Grandpa," for those few who may not know, was a
   signature song for country comedy artists (and Grand Ole
   Opry regulars) Lonzo & Oscar. It has also been recorded by
   others, including Grandpa Jones, and it makes a memorable
   appearance in the hilariously stupid movie, The Stupids
   (which is also remarkably clean, one of the few such comedy
   films).
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   The premise of the song is that an unusual pair of marriages
   result in bizarre relational implications for the character
   in the song, such that he is now his own grandpa (as you
   might suppose from the title).
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   The bizarre relationships that result from this pair of
   marriages are extensive, and now someone has now gone and
   done a hypertext version of the song that allows you to keep
   track of how all the relationships work, complete with diagrams.
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   With this in mind (and linking the hypertext version), a
   reader writes:
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   Would the following be considered licit...  from the [Catholic]
   Church's perspective? ...
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   <https://jimmyakin.com/2006/09/im_my_own_grand.html>

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In a major family reunion, re-uniting after decades the brother and
sister who, of the 11 children their parents had, were the only two to
reach adulthood (life was hard in the 1880s or so on the Great
Plains), I met two young (8 and 11, IIRC) who were referred to as
"cousins" (American English being very liberal in the use of this
word) but who were, in fact, Aunt and Niece.
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And the Aunt was the /younger/ one.
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So, yes, some strange convolutions can happen in real life.

Do all of this thread's topical followups lead to Heinlein?

    "When you hear a woman about forty address a fifteen-
    year-old as 'Mama Milla,' you'll know which is wife
    and which is daughter-not even that complex as we
    don't have daughters home past husband-high; they get
    opted."

    THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Heinlein

Danke,

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