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I have twin sisters and my mum didn't know she was expecting twins until they were actually born. She can remember delivering the one and hearing the midwife say ' There's another one in there' and out popped the second one. Because of the way they were lying only one heartbeat was picked up during the pregnancy and of course no ultra sound in those days. What a shock that was for her.
My Dad was a bus conductor at the time and in work, as it wasn't popular for hubbies to be at the birth then. Every time the bus stopped near a phone box he rang to see how my mum was and it took 4 stops and 4 phone calls before he would believe them.
I was only 17 months old at the time too and my next sister was just 5. What a handful we were!
Goodness.
What a lovely story, though.
 

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Very, very interesting, Bea.
Very glad your sister's twins were fine, though twins sounds like all sorts of nightmares to me.
It's probably genetic.
Women are pure XX chromosome, it's the males who are mutations carrying the Y chromosome along with their X.Not pure.
Possibly also the Africans have pure Homo sapiens sapiens genetics while the rest of us have a small percentage of Neanderthal in our DNA.
If Homo sapiens neanderthalensis had problems with development (and they did become extinct), then some of that may have been passed on to the Eurasians.
Just a thought.


I'm 3.1% Neanderthal to be exact.
 

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I need to ask all of you something, and I want you all to be totally honest with me, it might be awkward after this and your opinion on me might change, but I have kept this in for a long while and it's about time I was straight up and just confront you about it, I hope this doesn't ruin the friendship we already have, I just need to know and I can't see any other way to get over this, it just doesn't seem fair on me if I don't get an answer, I want you to tell me truthfully no matter what it is, I just want your honest opinion now matter what. Do you know the muffin man?

^^^ a friend sent me this today. I laughed quiet a lot.
 

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I need to ask all of you something, and I want you all to be totally honest with me, it might be awkward after this and your opinion on me might change, but I have kept this in for a long while and it's about time I was straight up and just confront you about it, I hope this doesn't ruin the friendship we already have, I just need to know and I can't see any other way to get over this, it just doesn't seem fair on me if I don't get an answer, I want you to tell me truthfully no matter what it is, I just want your honest opinion now matter what. Do you know the muffin man?

^^^ a friend sent me this today. I laughed quiet a lot.
Yep.
He lives down Drury Lane.
 

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I need to ask all of you something, and I want you all to be totally honest with me, it might be awkward after this and your opinion on me might change, but I have kept this in for a long while and it's about time I was straight up and just confront you about it, I hope this doesn't ruin the friendship we already have, I just need to know and I can't see any other way to get over this, it just doesn't seem fair on me if I don't get an answer, I want you to tell me truthfully no matter what it is, I just want your honest opinion now matter what. Do you know the muffin man?

^^^ a friend sent me this today. I laughed quiet a lot.
The Muffin Man?
 

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They made my life hell! Were always ganging up against me!
Poor me!:(
A friend of mine was once baby sitting for her identical twin nieces, who were about 5 at the time. She could absolutely NOT tell them apart, and they were having fun: each claiming to be the other. When one claimed to be the other, my friend said "No, you're not! Marissa is wearing blue today and you're wearing pink, so I KNOW that you're Alice!" The girls promptly disappeared into their room, then came out STARK NAKED, and full of giggles, having successfully thwarted her, again!!!:p
 

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A friend of mine was once baby sitting for her identical twin nieces, who were about 5 at the time. She could absolutely NOT tell them apart, and they were having fun: each claiming to be the other. When one claimed to be the other, my friend said "No, you're not! Marissa is wearing blue today and you're wearing pink, so I KNOW that you're Alice!" The girls promptly disappeared into their room, then came out STARK NAKED, and full of giggles, having successfully thwarted her, again!!!:p
I bet identical twins have a lot of fun! My twins sisters aren't identical - very different personalities too.
 

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Speeding.
2 Jags Prescott was banned from driving for 21 days in 2001 for driving a more than 100 mph on the M1 and fined £200. In the 3 previous years he's earned points on his licence for speeding. He said he didn't want his constituents catching cold waiting for him.
3 Buggy Grant received a speeding ticket while driving his horse and buggy in Washington D.C. in 1869. He is said to have persuaded the officer in charge that he was guilty and fined £20 .
They also both won very odd prizes.
Ulysses S. Grant won a prize for taming a pony at a circus and John Prescott's family, in 1961 in Brighton won the second prize in The Most Typical Family in Britain. but they should have won, as the winning family were discovered to be distantly related to the organizer of the competition.
 

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