3647 Outrageous families

In the spirit of the great interconnectedness of things, and not meaning to offend anyone other the our selves,

Let's talk about our outrageous relatives :)

My mother was told as a child that her uncle had his head blown off in the Great War.... and came home and died of sugar diabetes. I think it was some time before she worked out the difficulty here...

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 16:27

This is great new thread!

I even laugh to myself now when I recollect this story of my gran. She passed away a few years back and in her final years she started to lose it a bit (it must be genetic).

Anyway, one Xmas Eve we were all at our family house and gran was wrapping presents late into the night. Xmas morning she came down stairs with her hand over her mouth mumbling " has anyone seen my false teeth?"

You guessed it, she had wrapped then up in someones present and one by one we had to open them to find the extra surprise! Can't remember who got them, but I remember us all p*ssing ourselves laughing until boxing day.

Thanks for the memory Gran.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 16:37

I had a very fierce aunt - card carrying commie, child psychologist (and God help any children who fell into her clutches) - but I digress. I was rather baffled when I learnt that MI6 or whatever passed for Special Branch back in the 1970s, had blocked an application I had made to work for the BBC - so in true journalistic traditions I investigated, and discovered that said aunt had broadcast using my name........okay, maybe I hadn't been born by then.......but this "fact" denied me the appointment.............and this was before computer databases!! They come back to haunt you, the dodgy relative!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/14/2006 - 17:00

You can say that again. Just look at who is in this thread so far!! You're all well dodgy, if you ask me!

I'm glad you're outta jail Mr Thinker, did you use the monopoly card or the file in the cake I sent you?

:) :)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 07:54

I recall my uncle (by marriage) who was a bit of a spiv. His world advice to me as a child was "if the man next door offers you his old shoes, accept them thankfully. Because if you don't, he's never going to offer you anything ever again" :)

Still, whenever he visited he used to slip me and my brother a me some cash, so he was always welcome to us ;)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 14:38

When I got married my aunt sent me a postal order (she couldn’t attend the wedding) with 2 congratulation messages from her and my grand mom. She wrote me many nice words in the message….two years later I discovered that all the amount my aunt sent me was actually from my grand mom, my aunt managed to take the money from my grand mom (she’s 94 and not able to take care of herself anymore) and send it in name of herself and my old grand mom. Nice !

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 10/14/2006 - 09:59

Seems Tinks has been banged up again.

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