# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**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, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/41 "2005-04-03T04:40:55Z")
You’re right: I had not considered adding up the generations, thank you for the correction. (But I think there would be 32 separate g-g-g-grandparents, for a total of 62 ancestors.) > [@Wesley Clark](#): > > 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:** ![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, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/42 "2005-04-03T04:45:46Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > You’re right: I had not considered adding up the generations, thank you for the correction. (But I think there would be 32 separate g-g-g-grandparents, for a total of 62 ancestors.) no, we’d have the same set of great, great, great grandparents (the other 30 of the 32 sets would not be related between us), giving us 60 relatives who are different. ---
**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, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/43 "2005-04-03T04:54:17Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > You’re right: I had not considered adding up the generations, thank you for the correction. (But I think there would be 32 separate g-g-g-grandparents, for a total of 62 ancestors.) no, we’d have the same set of great, great, great grandparents (the other 30 of the 32 sets would not be related between us), giving us 60 relatives who are different. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/44 "2005-04-03T05:14:38Z")
PHBBBTS! You people are ametures! When I was a teenager I used to SO make out with my cousins at family reunions. GOt busted once. Mother was not at all happy. ---
**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, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/45 "2005-04-03T05:20:09Z")
More than once? :eek: ---
**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, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/46 "2005-04-03T06:10:44Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > 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. Want to pretend that you’re _my_ cousin? 😛 ---
**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, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/47 "2005-04-03T06:45:24Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Want to pretend that you’re _my_ cousin? 😛 I still can’t keep my big keyboard shut, apparently. Not saying no, though. ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/48 "2005-04-03T11:25:27Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Even first cousins is just fine, according to the Book of Leviticus, geneticists & at least a few U.S. states… […and Cecil](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/041001.html) ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/49 "2005-04-03T11:28:56Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > 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. If that’s not quotable I don’t know what is! ---
**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, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/50 "2005-04-03T23:09:45Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > I still can’t keep my big keyboard shut, apparently. > > Not saying no, though. C’mon over. Since we’re not cousins we can explore other mind-filling topics. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/51 "2005-04-04T12:07:59Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > no, we’d have the same set of great, great, great grandparents (the other 30 of the 32 sets would not be related between us), giving us 60 relatives who are different. No, I meant 32 but suffered a brainfart on the way to the “3” key. **Malacandra** is a he, thanks. Doesn’t _anyone_ (except **Polycarp** ) read C S Lewis? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/52 "2005-04-04T12:09:27Z")
meh. 30. 32 - 2 = 30. This is not going well… ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138/53 "2005-04-04T15:28:27Z")
I had a first cousin who was hot. I, as well as all of my sisters, had a massive crush on him. When he went to college, it was a big family scandal that he shared an apartment with a female first cousin. About 20 years later, he came out of the closet, so there was no reason to think any of us girls stood a chance. Still, he was one fine-lookin’ man, charming and witty also. (Even my mother thought he was hot.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cousin-is-soooo-hot/297138.md?page=2)