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what was the last thing an aunt told you (that you remember)?

do you still mix with your aunts?

― erik, Sunday, 20 October 2002 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I still talk to one every few months. She's over eighty, intelligent, independent and interesting, and never lectures me, just talks with interest and affection, much like a friend. The only other living one, I've not talked to in many years - a silly old woman. My favourite, an extraordinary, brilliant woman (she left me her backgammon set, a present from King Faisal, on which we had played a lot; she had also played with Omar Shariff, among many others; English was her fourth language, but she completed the Times crossword every day), died horribly from multiple sclerosis years ago.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

the last thing my aunt told me was that my dad has been amazing abt having parkinson's disease since 1967

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 October 2002 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Aunts Tory and Cheryl are both doing well and I've talked to the former last at Christmas and the latter last year. Always liked 'em both, and I have one of Tory's paintings as a present.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Tory? That's a vicious insult (even after centuries of reclamation) this side of the Atlantic, Ned.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Tory = short for Victoria. I have no idea what you barbarians use it for. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly! The word 'Victoria' is a nasty insult. You'll note that Mrs Beckham was always known as Posh Spice until she pissed off millions of jealous Brits by marrying David Beckham, then had that horrible epithet applied.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

It all sounds very rum, me old china. Er, or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 October 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

haha dr vick is visiting tomorrow, i haf a komikal plan

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 October 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

With hilarious consequences!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 October 2002 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

my aunt used to tell me which things were tools of Satan!! (these included kitchen witches and ROCK and me, sadly)

― jones (actual), Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The last thing mine told me was to phone or visit her soon. hehehe

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Monday, 21 October 2002 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I have 5 aunties and 3 aunties through marriage. My mum is very close to her sisters and I always find it strange when people talk about seeing their aunties like once a year, it makes me sad, my aunties are very good to me.

― Plinky (Plinky), Monday, 21 October 2002 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

aunts should be there to provide family gossip, there good at it.

mine told me things abt family members I would not here from my parents.

― percipitate, Monday, 21 October 2002 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The last aunt I spoke to finished the conversation by saying "Let's go out and get drunk soon," but then she is only 32 and closer to my age than my mothers and I suppose falls more into a cousin type.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 21 October 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

dood i got so many aunts i dont even know all of them

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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