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Old 07-08-2004, 11:45 AM
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Things you shouldn't do at your wife's family reunion

Do not:

1. Punch the largest person in the face, and then proclaim yourself “the alpha-male."
2. Start a cock-fight. Not with birds, either.
3. Fall over and play dead whenever a conversation becomes too boring.
4. Offer to show the group how you can pop open a beer bottle with your butt cheeks.
5. Refer to your children as “fuck trophies.”

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Old 07-08-2004, 12:25 PM
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6. Hit on her cousin. Double if it's a male.
7. Act surprised at meeting her grandmother. Say you're surprised that she's still alive.
8. Spontaniously break-out in a "I'm better than you" song.
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Old 07-08-2004, 12:35 PM
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6. Hit on her cousin. Double if it's a male.
7. Act surprised at meeting her grandmother. Say you're surprised that she's still alive.
8. Spontaniously break-out in a "I'm better than you" song.
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Old 07-08-2004, 12:39 PM
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On one hand, I am pissed at myself for the double post. On the other, I'm proud at my level of patheticy (Yes that's a word. Okay, no, but you know what I mean) at having a double post ten minutes apart.
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Old 07-08-2004, 12:50 PM
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My very first thought was...

Ask for a divorce.

The second was...

Hit on her father.
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Old 07-08-2004, 12:51 PM
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9. Pry for juicy details of her pre-married life.
10. Especially not by offering juicy details of her married life in exchange.
11. Eat or drink anything out of anyone's body parts or clothing.
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Old 07-08-2004, 01:13 PM
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12. Stick your dick in the mashed potatoes.
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Old 07-08-2004, 01:16 PM
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Take an informal poll of how many cousins felt her up in the garage during reunions when they were teens.

Take an informal poll of how many cousins felt her up in the garage during this reunion.
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Old 07-08-2004, 01:21 PM
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"Nice to finally meet you, sir! Your granddaughter is quite the squirter!"
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Old 07-08-2004, 01:22 PM
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12. Stick your dick in the mashed potatoes.
... or make comparisons between it and the turkey baster.

13. Walk in the kitchen and say "Gawd, who shit?"
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Old 07-08-2004, 03:41 PM
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12. Stick your dick in the mashed potatoes.
18. Use mashed potatoes to do your world-famous dick imitation.
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Old 07-08-2004, 04:47 PM
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14. Rip a cheek flapper during the prayer over dinner.

15. Refer to your wife only as "the bitch."

16. Cop a feel from her mother.

17. Take a dump in the toilet tank and replace the lid.
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Old 07-08-2004, 04:58 PM
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While you have her grandmother, parents, and preferably brothers, tell about that one time you and her were in this threesome when the cops busted the place for you illegal brewery and meth lab. And while laughing, explain how, in order for the police not to find the heroin, you had your wife hide it up her rectum.

Oh, and you can't forget to tell about that time your wife caught you having sex with a 17 year old boy after she excaped from being tied up in the basement.

See, the family would be so happy to see you have such a good sense of humour.

At every moment, turn every conversation into a political discussion, where, before long, you call the family member a card-carrying commie who masterbates to pictures of Osama Bin Laden. Then compare either Bush or Clinton to Hitler.
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Old 07-08-2004, 05:35 PM
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23. Ask her adorable 10-year old nephew to come into the bedroom with you so you can show him something really neat.

24. Casually mention that since she started getting waxed, it really shows off her tattoo.

25. After her parents show on the home movies of when they were at the beach when she was seven, offer to show the video of your wedding night.
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Old 07-08-2004, 05:40 PM
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15. Refer to your wife only as "the bitch."
And whenever you need to summon her, just clapp your hands twice.
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Old 07-08-2004, 05:45 PM
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27. Offer to present a pyrotechnic display, armed with a can of beans and a lighter.

28. Each time you feel the urge to defecate, do not announce that you have to “pinch off a loaf/drop a log/have to shit like a motherfucker.” Simply saying that you are going to “take a dump” is fine.
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Old 07-08-2004, 05:50 PM
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29. Dress in drag.

30. Ask your wife for a divorce. In front of her parents.

31. Casually reference how many things you learned that night you spent in prison after being taken in for drunk and disorderly was...
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Old 07-08-2004, 05:55 PM
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32. Bring the girlfriend.
33. Bring the boyfriend
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Old 07-08-2004, 07:30 PM
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34: Grab the mail when it arrives and get all giddy when there's a Netflix envelope in the pile.
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Old 07-08-2004, 07:43 PM
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35. Yell "Let's wet down the wives' T-shirts and rate their hooters!"

I must confess I stole this from the Bundys, although it was Peg who said it and Al gave (for Al) a sweet compliment in return: "You'd win!"

dammit, wouldn't she?
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Old 07-08-2004, 08:02 PM
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36) Fail to find a good enough excuse to avoid showing up at all.
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Old 07-08-2004, 08:03 PM
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36. Interrupt the kids' viewing of Finding Nemo so you can pop in your new copy of Anal Invaders 27.

37. Invite your wife's 13 year old niece to watch it with you.

38. Make her go get you a towel and a beer after you've finished up.
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Old 07-08-2004, 08:07 PM
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39. Jump up on the dinner table, whip it out, and yell, "I'm masturbating like a motherf**ker!" Who's with me?
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Old 07-08-2004, 08:16 PM
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Finish off every one of Grandma Meema's sentences for her with "...in a pig's ass!"
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Old 07-08-2004, 08:17 PM
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This really happened, but it was a guy my wife dated before we had met...

Recite the following to her very conservative/fundamentalist family:

"What's white and creamy and falls from the sky?

The Coming of the Lord."
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Old 07-08-2004, 09:06 PM
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Real life adventure: Tell your staunchly Methodist mother-in-law the really hilarious juke about why Methodists don't engage in copulation in an upright position. This will result in three days of cold silence from mama-in-law, big trouble for father-in-law who made the mistake of laughing, and no loving for your truly for an unfortunately long time.

Punch line: they are afraid someone will see them and think they’re dancing.
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Old 07-08-2004, 09:22 PM
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Obviously, “joke” not “juke.”
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Old 07-08-2004, 09:28 PM
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Tell everybody you met your wife after your NAMBLA meeting.
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Old 07-08-2004, 09:29 PM
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Tell everybody you met your wife after your NAMBLA meeting.

Offer to explain when one of her young nephews asks what NAMBLA is.
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Old 07-08-2004, 09:30 PM
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Ummm, Methodists are allowed to dance, in case you didn't know. Maybe you were thinking of the Baptists. No wonder they were mad at you.
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Old 07-09-2004, 03:01 AM
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Ask the adorable nephew if he likes gladiator movies.

(Could they do that joke nowadays?)
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Old 07-09-2004, 11:59 AM
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Write something rude on the front lawn using a heavy stream of salt right out of the box as the ink.

Spell check carefully. This is permanent!
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Old 07-09-2004, 12:14 PM
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Feel up all the adult male relatives and say mine's bigger.

Feel up all the minor male relatives and say mine's bigger.

Offer grandma a toke.

Ask your MIL if she used vodka in her Jell-O mold.

Brag on how you and your wife make extra money starring in MMF porn videos.
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Old 07-09-2004, 12:33 PM
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Tell Italian jokes.

Go for a "long walk" with her cousins after telling italian jokes.
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Old 07-09-2004, 01:07 PM
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This really happened, but it was a guy my wife dated before we had met...

Recite the following to her very conservative/fundamentalist family:

"What's white and creamy and falls from the sky?

The Coming of the Lord."
The best laugh of the day by far. Thank you, tpayne.
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Old 07-09-2004, 01:12 PM
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5. Refer to your children as “fuck trophies.”



That's a good one!

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Old 07-09-2004, 02:25 PM
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Burp the prayer at dinner.

Shave their old cat like a poodle.

Ask everyone what they're going to do with their inheritance money.
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Old 07-09-2004, 02:36 PM
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Spike the punch with any or all of the following:

LSD
Cockroaches
Ipecac
Iocaine powder
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Old 07-09-2004, 02:45 PM
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Mention the hilarious game you play with your wife, where you make up some wild story about something that could only happen to a drunken, brain-dead lowlife, and she tells you which of her relations it actually happened to.
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Old 07-09-2004, 03:18 PM
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Sing this song from when you walk into the door, to when you are forced to leave: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how is goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how is goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how is goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how is goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how is goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how is goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how is goes:
And repeat until you can leave.
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Old 07-09-2004, 08:30 PM
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The best laugh of the day by far. Thank you, tpayne.
You're welcome. My wife just reminded me that this story happened at Easter Dinner
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Old 07-10-2004, 01:51 PM
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"Wow, honey, I never believed all those stories you told me about your family were true before today."
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Old 07-10-2004, 10:22 PM
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This really happened, but it was a guy my wife dated before we had met...

Recite the following to her very conservative/fundamentalist family:

"What's white and creamy and falls from the sky?

The Coming of the Lord."
Heh. I have a new favorite joke now. And it's one that'll go over real well with the devout-Catholic side of my family.
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Old 07-11-2004, 04:55 PM
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Ummm, Methodists are allowed to dance, in case you didn't know. Maybe you were thinking of the Baptists. No wonder they were mad at you.
United Methodists can dance. Free Methodists, not so much.
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Old 07-11-2004, 07:11 PM
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United Methodists can dance. Free Methodists, not so much.
You'd think it would be harder to dance if you're united, but...


umm... nevermind...
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Old 07-12-2004, 02:38 AM
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You'd think it would be harder to dance if you're united, but...


umm... nevermind...

Not to mention easier if you're free..
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Old 07-12-2004, 07:29 AM
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Do the Food Bit: Refuse to eat most of it, criticize it for being unhealthy/dead animals/non-Atkings/milk. etc. Criticize the people who eat it, telling them "I almost married someone else, but they actually drank sugared soda." Do this ad nauseum, all day.
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Old 07-12-2004, 08:34 AM
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United Methodists can dance. Free Methodists, not so much.
Tell me about it. Free Methodists have absolutely no rhythm.
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Old 07-12-2004, 09:22 AM
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Offer a cash prize to the winner of the circle jerk.

Mace the first person you catch looking at your wife, male or female.

Keep referring to your wife as the place holder for your girlfriend.

When being introduced to the female relatives, keep asking "Is this the one that gives free hand jobs?" Ditto the males, come to think of it.

Pull her mother aside and confess that you only married the daughter to be closer to the mother. Bring flowers.

Offer to show people your condom collection, even though your collection consists of one condom, which you're wearing.

Tell everyone you're "going commando" and ask if they want to see.
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