If you weren't my cousin...

A funny thing has happened to me again. There's this girl I work with who's pretty cute. The manager and my dad(whom I'm now working with) were taking off to pick up a truck and made some comments like "You should go talk to Erica, wink wink.." You know, old people humour. So anyway, apparently that got them talking about it and my dad asked what Ericas last name is and yada yada yada turns out shes my third cousin. So that's kind of weird. I don't even think she knows which could make it weirder. And this isn't the first time this has happened either. A couple years ago my friends wanted to set me up with this girl they went to school with... blah blah blah she's my fifth cousin. The title of this post is taken from a show Arrested Development, which is hilarious if you haven't seen it yet. One of the characters is obsessed with his cousin (who later turns out to not really be his cousin) and he writes some love notes that he never gives her and one of them is called If you weren't my cousin. So here's the question, how distant of relation is distant enough? I mean keep in mind, back in the day people used to only want their cousins. And theres tonnes of groups around the world who keep their friends close and their cousins closer. Quote the Simpsons, "Why would we want to marry our cousins? Because they're so darn attractive." At a cousins wedding I met this girl who's my cousin's cousin through marriage twice, and I think I'd be cool with that.. I think first cousins is illegal so does that mean anything beyond that is alright? A downside or upside of marrying your 2nd cousin is that you may already know some of your relatives. So drop a comment, tell me what you think. 2nd cousins: Too close for comfort or are you cool with keepin it in the family?

Well I was going to start a new feature today called Top five, but I forgot the ones I made up when I first had the idea so were just gonna go with People I like and Logan says.
People I like today are married people because boy, do they ever fall off fast and also John Stamos.
This week the part of Logan is played by Xenu - The Mind Taker. Xenu Says: "I dig dudes."
Next time... Marriage: a bottomless pit or more of a vortex portal?



postscript: Food for thought - I think the worst thing about having King Kong go rampid in your city would be the huge monster genitalia. Also I finally got my moustache song, so check it out.