ep33 His Brothers Father

A man becomes his brother's father, a jury, renders an impossible verdict, a letter travels 50 miles per hour in 1755. And with those three impossible but provable statements, we welcome you to another session of paradoxes and odd facts to make you say, can you imagine it?

Until we return in just one and a half minutes, this is Lindsay McCarry asking you to wait around, won't you? And here's the first can you imagine that item? A lot of people stir up a huge fuss about their family tree.

They go back hundreds of years to discover that Gunther the Dane, who sailed from Greenland, was an ancestor, or that Balter, the Lithuanian lark, is distantly related by the southern branch of the family. But a family in Ventura, California, has to have a genealogist to unravel a mix-up in their present generation.

Why? Well, it sounds like one of those puzzles in which Ed likes cake and he's pool champion, so what's the name of the conductor of the limited? Mr. T.M. McCants, 48, married Alberta, Abbot, 27.

Nothing wrong about that. No, but when T. M's brother Luther married Alberta's mother, Mrs. Amy Logan, he fixed up something quite puzzling. See if you can close your eyes and get the first base with it. Listen, T. M. McCants is the brother-in-law of his own mother-in-law. Therefore, his wife, Alberta, is her brother-in-law Luther's step

daughter. Mr. Luther McCants automatically becomes his own brother's step-father-in-law and the mother by virtue of this round robin now becomes the sister-in-law of her own daughter. So in four people, there is now a full quota of in-laws which ordinarily would require two or three families to supply.