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Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 24 Jan 2012, 02:35

Fran wrote:@Tralala
I've often wondered how it happens that kids display the same mannerisms as grandparents or other relatives they never met or indeed how adopted kids can often grow up looking very like their adoptive parents. My nephew constantly reminds me of my Dad, whome he never met, in things he says and does and still physically he doesn't look at all like him.
Intriguing?

Yes! I've seen traits of my grandfather in both of my kids, and he died when I was ten. Mostly good stuff, but my son punches when he's woken up, just the way Grandpa Ralph did. I do that, too...but my grandfather's the only one of us who actually broke someone's nose that way. I've taught people the "yank a toe and duck" method for waking my son up. Works pretty well.
Have you told your nephew about your dad? I'd find that pretty cool, myself. I apparently look and act a lot like my great grandmother...Ella Mae Hoon...sounds like a joke hillbilly name, but it's not a joke. Just hillbilly.

Fran wrote:
Bighuey wrote:Whats also intriguing, have you ever noticed how some people look like their pets?
That's not intriguing .. it's just worrying

Yeah, especially with my pets...so I'll end up looking like a rat-gerbil-hamster?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 24 Jan 2012, 05:59

Ella Mae Hoon ... now that's a name & a half
Going by your last avatar you don't look anything like your pets Tralala

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 24 Jan 2012, 09:58

Im starting to look like my white dogs, my hairs turning grey, probably be white before long.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 24 Jan 2012, 10:57

Bighuey wrote:Im starting to look like my white dogs, my hairs turning grey, probably be white before long.

Bighuey ... I bet you look distinguised

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 24 Jan 2012, 19:42

Fran wrote:
Bighuey wrote:Im starting to look like my white dogs, my hairs turning grey, probably be white before long.
Bighuey ... I bet you look distinguised

Im not too sure about distinguised, I think I just look old.

Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 25 Jan 2012, 00:40

Fran wrote:Ella Mae Hoon ... now that's a name & a half
Going by your last avatar you don't look anything like your pets Tralala

Yeah, I weigh a lot more than the dog does.
Something I noticed today, though...the Rooster's hair and Twister (gerbil)'s fur are exactly the same shade of strawberry blond. Hmmm...

Ant · Post by **Ant** » 25 Jan 2012, 12:02

Do Roosters have hair ?

Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 26 Jan 2012, 03:06

He's a ginger, big-time. Rooster's a band nickname, in reference to his hair, and that he used to play/sing that song. I'm a pale-skinned redhead, too (even if my shade's a little less than honest--I just give it a boost, just in case there's any gray creeping in. Really.), so I joke that if we ever have kids, nobody'll be able to see 'em. 'Course, he's never heard that joke, 'cause he passes out right after he hears "we" and "have kids".
Seriously...that gerbil could live in his hair and we'd never be able to find the little guy.