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My Great-uncle helped design the arm/hand of King Kong for the original movie.

My Grandmom graduated from the same high school that I did.

The ship my Grandpop served on during WWII survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

My great great grandma may or may not have been the illegitimate child of Billy the Kid.

My uncle (a Canadian who lives in Canada) worked for a few seasons of survivor and can be seen VERY briefly in one episode. My family isn't very interesting, so that sticks out to me.

My sister is an egocentric b!tch and shows signs that she IS an Aspie.

My great aunt was rumored to have babysat Walt Disney, but I don't think it's true.

... Okay, I won't mess around on here anymore.

My grandma lives in Oklahoma.

On our trip to Truro this week, my mother and I played a car game of Twenty Questions, only the rule was that it had to be famous people, they could be real, fictional, living or dead. And every time you asked a question with the answer "yes", you were allowed to be given a hint. Of course I wanted the person to be someone my mom knew or had at least heard of so it would be but not impossible but still a challenge. So I picked Beetle Bailey who appears daily in our newspaper. My poor mother almost lost it. When I hinted at Beetle Bailey's first name being that of an insect, she said bee and butterfly and everything but beetle.

One the people she had me guess was Aladdin, who I guessed after only asking two questions. She almost lost it at that too for my guessing it so fast, but I told her most Disney movies revolve a lot around the female main character if they're human, like Snow White and Cinderella.

My mother is dyslexic.

My sister has always hated her BFF ever since they met in HS.

My mom told me last week that when she was a kid, yo-yos were really popular. But they were more of a boy's plaything. Girls would play with them too, but never seemed to be as good.

I wonder if that's some genetic thing or is society just plain sexist? When I was a kid girls were always into jumping rope for fun (except me).

I remember yo-yo's making a comeback in the 90's, but I haven't noticed them in a long while. Maybe they took them off the market because the helicopter moms were screaming that the strings would strangle their babies.

Anyway, that's not really about my family but I thought it was interesting enough to post.

I realize this thread is almost 5 years old, but.....

Three of my closest relatives are narcissists----they suck rocks!!

When I was visiting on Canada Day my mom showed me an old photo of herself when she was a little girl. She was wearing kind of a cowgirl skirt, had very curly blonde hair, and looked a bit like Shirley Temple.

My parents made me go to college.

My parents were Southern fried Baptists. Since I was declared persona non grata in their congregation, I went Lutheran. One brother went United Methodist, and the remaining brothers do not go to church (one might as well be athiest, and the other works 7 days a week on rotating shifts.