"GENEALOGICAL ASYLUM"


Genealogical Mismatch

A man one day was visiting a lunatic asylum and while walking in the garden, he met a patient to whom he said: "Well, how did you get here?" The man replied: "Well sir, you see I married a widow with a grown up daughter, and my father then married my wife's daughter, and that made my wife the mother-in-law of her father-in-law and my father became my step-son.

Then my step-mother, the daughter of my wife, had a son and the boy, of course, was my brother because he was my father's son, and then he was the son of my wife's stepdaughter and therefore her grandson, and that made me grandfather of my step-brother. Then my wife had a son, so my mother-in-law, the step-sister of my son, is also his grandmother because he is her step-son's child, my father is the brother-in-law of my son because his step-sister is his wife.  I am the brother of my own son since I am the son of my step-mother.  I am now my step-mother's brother-in-law, my wife is her own child's aunt, my son is my father's nephew, and I am my own grandfather. That's sir is why I am here."


     

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