# My cousin is soooo hot **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 31, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138 "2005-03-31T22:57:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/21 "2005-04-02T01:43:24Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > That would make you identical twins, dear. > > I spent the night at my hot half-cousins house one night and we slept in the same bed. Nothing “happened” but I don’t think either of us actually slept much that night. Yeah, it was weird. Weird but kinda hot. 😮 Its actually higher, all humans share 99.9% of their DNA and first cousins share 99.95%. This girl and I share 99.903125% ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/22 "2005-04-02T02:35:08Z")
This all would skeeve me just a touch more, if not for the fact that I have some really hot cousins too. Would never touch any of them, as they’re first cousins, but they sure are nice to look at. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/23 "2005-04-02T03:07:08Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > J is more like a sister than a cousin to us, since we grew up spending a lot of time together. One day he was lamenting about not having a girlfriend when she said, “I know what I’ll do. I’ll hook you up with my cousin, S.” My brother says, “Wouldn’t she be my cousin, too?” Not necessarily. My cousin Laura is the daughter of my mother’s brother. However, Laura’s cousin David is the son of Michelle, who’s Laura’s mother’s sister. Since David and I have no known ancestors in common, he and I are not cousins. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/24 "2005-04-02T05:59:50Z")
Like almost everyone, I have charming cousins, but…eww… About 10 years ago I was hanging out late one drunken night with three close friends, and it transpired that I was the only one in the room who had \*not \*slept with a first cousin. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/25 "2005-04-02T07:21:02Z")
We need an :I’d hit it: smiley. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/26 "2005-04-02T16:47:56Z")
My first cousin is very attractive. I’d never date her, not only because she’s my cousin but because she’s an extremely girly ditz who constantly peppers her speech with the word “like” and screeches loudly at pretty much any prompting. I hate all girls like that, even if they are hot. ---
**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/27 "2005-04-02T20:06:09Z")
Just for the record, I would like to point out that nobody in the state of West Virginia has participated in this thread!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/28 "2005-04-02T21:03:27Z")
> [@beergeek279](#): > > Just for the record, I would like to point out that nobody in the state of West Virginia has participated in this thread!!! 😃 How do you know that? Lute Skywatcher - In a tavern far, far away Anaamika - City that always sleeps Sarah Woodruff - duffer - the gloaming mr bus guy - living high on the hog Lord Ashtar - Blackwater Park Ghanima - Earth Harimad-sol - Under a blanket emekthian - ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/29 "2005-04-02T21:45:02Z")
**You might be a redneck if:** Your favorite place to score chicks is the annual family reunion. :Looks longingly at June 11th date that’s circled on wall calendar: ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/30 "2005-04-03T00:47:03Z")
Hey, Facebook! My least-favorite online addiction. Is there a Straight Dope Facebook group? Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/31 "2005-04-03T01:00:09Z")
Seriously, do you really think it’s gross to go out with a 4th cousin? Would it be socially unacceptable to most Americans? Just curious… ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/32 "2005-04-03T01:02:16Z")
I don’t see anything wrong with it. Plus, who is going to know if you don’t tell them? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/33 "2005-04-03T02:06:38Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > Seriously, do you really think it’s gross to go out with a 4th cousin? Would it be socially unacceptable to most Americans? Just curious… I don’t think its gross. The only thing that would throw me is the fact that we have the same last name. Either way, i’m not going out with her she lives 120 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/34 "2005-04-03T02:14:08Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Not necessarily. My cousin Laura is the daughter of my mother’s brother. However, Laura’s cousin David is the son of Michelle, who’s Laura’s mother’s sister. Since David and I have no known ancestors in common, he and I are not cousins. Nah, she’s just so used to hooking people up she had just forgotten momentarily that they were first cousins. She went on autopilot, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/35 "2005-04-03T02:47:01Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Even first cousins is just fine, according to the Book of Leviticus, geneticists & at least a few U.S. states (and I think the number is growing). Practically every human culture has an incest taboo – but in many, marrying a first cousin is not considered incestuous. In Iraq it’s common, sometimes practically obligatory. Reinforces family ties, which they consider very important. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/36 "2005-04-03T03:28:37Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > I don’t think its gross. The only thing that would throw me is the fact that we have the same last name. Either way, i’m not going out with her she lives 120 miles away. If she’s as much fun IRL as she looks in that picture, 120 miles shouldn’t be a deal-breaker, IMO. Same last name? Meh. Less time spent changing licenses and such, and monogrammed towels are a guaranteed match! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/37 "2005-04-03T03:34:19Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > If she’s as much fun IRL as she looks in that picture, 120 miles shouldn’t be a deal-breaker, IMO. Same last name? Meh. Less time spent changing licenses and such, and monogrammed towels are a guaranteed match! 😉 Eh, virtually every girl I ask out says no, and I don’t want to ask out a woman that I met by emailing about how we are related. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/38 "2005-04-03T04:07:36Z")
**beergeek279** , I’m a West Virginia native weighing in, but just to correct someone’s math. 😉 **Malacandra** , we all have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great grandparents, and **32** great-great-great grandparents, not 60 as you state. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/39 "2005-04-03T04:21:14Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > **beergeek279** , I’m a West Virginia native weighing in, but just to correct someone’s math. 😉 > > **Malacandra** , we all have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great grandparents, and **32** great-great-great grandparents, not 60 as you state. She/he probably meant we have 2 seperate parents, 4 seperate grandparents, 8 seperate great grandparents, 16 seperate great great grandparents and 30 seperate great great great grandparents who are not the same which adds up to 60 relatives. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/40 "2005-04-03T04:23:03Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > If she’s as much fun IRL as she looks in that picture, 120 miles shouldn’t be a deal-breaker, IMO. Same last name? Meh. Less time spent changing licenses and such, and monogrammed towels are a guaranteed match! 😉 Yeah, 120 miles is nothing. If she were my cousin, I’d ask her out. That is the wrongest sentence I think I’ve ever typed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138.md?page=3)