Close to Home by John McPherson for January 11, 2025

“Sonny, it’s most important that each individual admit being the child of his or her parents. Cousins has become a vague term of Kirk Cousins, Nick Cousins, Midwestern sandwich shops and some MLB pitcher.”

Ooo…nasty.

MORE LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER!

I hear banjos!

I’m not sure they’re the same species. He looks like a monkey.

It doesn’t matter kid. You’re adopted.

I’m my own Grampa,I’m my own Grampa,It’s stupid I know,It’s Really is so,I’m my own Grampa!

Compliments to whoever wrote the song.

Alabama Public School System standard question.

“Not my first. I already had a couple of cousins before he was born.”

And this is how conspiracy theorists come to be.

If they respond with “what’s wrong with that?” um yeah you got a tough road ahead

Funny

Just tell the teacher the dog ate you paper so you don’t have to admit anything in front of the class, the teacher and God!

Gene and Jean should never have gotten together.

Oh, oh, that’s bad! And I hope no teacher would ever be like that.

Or part of the Trump clan.

THAT is funny!

No harm in asking. It probably went right over their head anyway.

Ooh, that’s cold!

Hiya Bleeb! Are you in chair jail? None of this was your fault, you know. :)

“What does she think we are, European royalty?”

And the parents probably didn’t get it.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall at their next parent/teacher meeting! Lol!!

My dad once told me an inappropriate joke that ended in, “If she isn’t good enough for her own family, she isn’t good enough for ours.”

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.

Holy crap!

Life imitates art! My kid’s teachers always used to ask me that.

Teacher should have asked if the kid’s parents were siblings. There’s actually low genetic risk to first cousins procreating.

Which is why it’s so creepy that in some states in the USA, first cousins CAN marry each other.

Oh BUUUUURRRRNNNNN!!!!!

Those are some UGLY people.

“We ain’t. We both have the same ma and pa!”

the ol telephone pole shaped family tree

Ha ha, then your teacher is an idiot as there is no evidence that children of first cousins have any major genetic issues. Maybe ask your teacher if their mother and father were also brother and sister.