The Encumbence

I've always preferred to lead.                  So have I.

I've always preferred to lead.                                                                        So have I.

I've always preferred to lead.     Oh, don't make me laugh!

Do you have any cousins?

(sometimes Devil Anse is tapu's screen name)

Tapu is asked this because of having no siblings.

The answer is that Tapu has 61 known first cousins and first-cousins-once-removed, along with a huge number of unknown first-cousins-once-removed, born to 29 other first cousins.

That could easily add up to, like, 60 more cousins.... Is that even possible?? To have over 100 first-order cousins??

Well, regardless, you couldn't call us close....



Aunts/Uncles                  1st Cousins                  1st Cousins Once Removed

wilson (agnes)--------------| sandra----------------------------------1


helen (alva)
                                          | terry------------------------------------2
                                          | marsha---------------------------------1
tommy (martha)------------| tommy greg---------------------------2
                                          | jill---------------------------------------1
                                          | john howard---------------------------3

                                          | kathy------------------------------------3
jeanette (donald)-----------| durinda----------------------------------2
                                          | jan---------------------------------------2

dave (nancy)----------------| judy--------------------------------------2
                                          | ken---------------------------------------2

tice
    |---------------------------- tapu (eme)---------------------------- asa
mary belle


bill (maisey)----------------|   2 known---------------------|   # unknown

donald (various)------------|   # unknown -----------------|   # unknown

bobby (sue)-----------------|   4 known---------------------|   # unknown

ethel (husband)-------------|  5 known---------------------|   # unknown

lucy (husband)--------------|  3 known---------------------|   # unknown

eileen (homer)--------------|  5 known---------------------|   # unknown
(I know the 5 cousins' names: Ronnie, Donnie, Lonnie, Punkin, Valerie.
I don't know if Punkin has another name.... He's always been Punkin.)

nellie (lee)-------------------|  1 known---------------------|   # unknown

millie (charles)--------------|  1 known---------------------|   # unknown

margaret (lew)---------------|  3 known---------------------|   # unknown

erma (gene)------------------|  3 known---------------------|   # unknown

carol sue (jim)---------------|  2 known---------------------|   # unknown

Face It

All my friends
are online
friends.

                                                                       

Can I get you anything?

Generally, I prefer water to soda, juice, milk, scotch, root beer floats, whatever else might be offered. But in a restaurant, here's the scenario:

        

w-a-t-e-r

I order water.

The waiter looks up, "Are you sure?"

Am I sure? Does he ask that when someone orders a Blue Margarita?
 

Accommodating him, I reconsider—Do I really want water? 

"Yes, I am sure," I say decisively. "Just water." 

"Did you want bottled water?" 

"No," I say.

i don't want a lemon in it either, thanks