I used to know this guy who was having a relationship with his stepsister. She was no blood relation to him whatsoever, but she used to have these guilt trips because she was sure they were committing some kind of incest.

Blame the duck-faced children on the inbreeding?

Meh. My mom found out that she is descended from one of Edward I's sons (same English king who subjugated the Scots during William "Freedom" Wallace's time). Then discovered my step father is descended from the other son.

FTA: And they weren't the only celebrities shocked by findings from the past on the show - crooner Harry Connick, Jr. discovered he had Confederate ancestors

How is this in any remote way shocking?

wow, they must have a show coming out

My wife and I did family tree stuff and she and I have the same English ancestor from the 14th century, but we both did a mitochondrial DNA study and found we're related somewhere back in the 18th century in North Africa.

We were born on different continents five years apart to families whose horizons extend no further than the chips on their racist shoulders.

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Here's your daddy's daddy's daddy's...........daddy.

And they called it COUSIN LOVEEEEEEE

SithLord: Meh. My mom found out that she is descended from one of Edward I's sons (same English king who subjugated the Scots during William "Freedom" Wallace's time). Then discovered my step father is descended from the other son.

I'm Scottish, and would be forced to kill you, were it not for the fact that I'm an ancestor of him also. We're related to Charlemagne. That's a cool thing to tell the ladies. He was seven feet apparently, so somewhere my ancestors screwed a dwarf, cuz i'm 5'8".

First cousins, once removed.

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Here's your daddy's daddy's daddy's...........daddy.

Half the population of ireland, and much of the US, Scotland, and England, myself included, can all trace their ancestry back to one Irishman from many centuries ago. DNA tests are awesome.

Approves.

I asked a girl out on a date, got home from work and found out that night the she and I are 8th cousins.

//Almost passed out. Didn't go on date.

I had sex with my Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Daughters, Daughter. It was her idea. Was that wrong?

Chiquidin: I asked a girl out on a date, got home from work and found out that night the she and I are 8th cousins.

//Almost passed out. Didn't go on date.

That'd hardly be inbreeding. Most small town on the planet have couples way more closely related than that. Your children would hardly be web toed.

Bathia_Mapes: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are second cousins once removed (by descent from Christian IX of Denmark and Luise of Hesse-Kassel) and third cousins (by descent from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert).

Queen Elizabeth II and George Washington are distant cousins.

donnielove: FTA: And they weren't the only celebrities shocked by findings from the past on the show - crooner Harry Connick, Jr. discovered he had Confederate ancestors

How is this in any remote way shocking?

NS.
The guy is umpteenth generation in NOLA and he's 'surprised' he has Confederate ancecters?

Hell, he should be surprised if he didn't!

domo_kun_sai: I had sex with my Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Daughters, Daughter. It was her idea. Was that wrong?

Only if she was ugly.

hasty ambush: Bathia_Mapes: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are second cousins once removed (by descent from Christian IX of Denmark and Luise of Hesse-Kassel) and third cousins (by descent from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert).

Queen Elizabeth II and George Washington are distant cousins.

She's royalty, they can breed if they like.

r1niceboy: Chiquidin: I asked a girl out on a date, got home from work and found out that night the she and I are 8th cousins.

//Almost passed out. Didn't go on date.

That'd hardly be inbreeding. Most small town on the planet have couples way more closely related than that. Your children would hardly be web toed.

Yeah I knew that. The wild thing was her family came from Mexico. I was born in the States. So yeah somewhere along the continuum some member of a distant family went South of the Border and then after a few generations they came back up (legally) and moved into the same town I grew up in. That's what was freaky.

//Still wish I had gone out wioth her once, she was smiokin'.

////Extra points her cousin who was also an American from Omaha area was also living in the same town. That made him my cousin too, I forget how but the family memeber was of the same line....

Mugato: I wonder how much inbreeding goes on the the hood, with all the baby daddies running around and having as many kids as they can ignore. Distant cousins is nothing.

They didn't have any flipper babies, did they?

eh eh eh eh eh eh

Krymson Tyde: I'm my own grandpa.



/hot like the nasty in the pasty

Thanks for telling us the names of the common ancestors, journalism major.

Oh wait...you were a journalism major. Nevermind.

Chiquidin: r1niceboy: Chiquidin: I asked a girl out on a date, got home from work and found out that night the she and I are 8th cousins.

//Almost passed out. Didn't go on date.

That'd hardly be inbreeding. Most small town on the planet have couples way more closely related than that. Your children would hardly be web toed.

Yeah I knew that. The wild thing was her family came from Mexico. I was born in the States. So yeah somewhere along the continuum some member of a distant family went South of the Border and then after a few generations they came back up (legally) and moved into the same town I grew up in. That's what was freaky.

//Still wish I had gone out wioth her once, she was smiokin'.

////Extra points her cousin who was also an American from Omaha area was also living in the same town. That made him my cousin too, I forget how but the family memeber was of the same line....

Incest is mandatory in Nebraska. Even the state government is inbred.

The U.K. did this show a couple/few years back. David Tennant discovered his mothers family had been on the Orange side of the Irish Troubles and he was not comfortable with it.

They did one with Stephen Fry too. Haven't seen it though.

For those of you who like to play the "Six Degrees" game (and want to cheat), I give you:

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