Your brothers, sisters?
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Topic: Your brothers, sisters?
Posted By: clarke2001
Subject: Your brothers, sisters?
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 20:21
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I'm the only child. I'm fine with that, although I wouldn't mind having an older sister, let's say. I'm curious to know what are the typical patterns in our corner of the internet? Also, would you like that number to be different, or you prefer it as it is? Also, are you the firstborn, the second, the youngest? (There is no 'other' option. I understand some answers might be blurry - some of us might have half-brothers/sisters, or adopted ones, some of the siblings might have died at very young age (perhaps that's a subject to painful and intimate to talk about), some might be much younger/older, so you never co-habituated in the same family. Answer whatever you feel is right.) ------------- |
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 20:23
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I have a sister who's a little over a year younger than me. It worked out well for me, since we were close enough in age to be good friends for our entire lives.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 20:24
| I am the oldest of four brothers, much like Malcolm in th Midle only they got five |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 20:26
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I'd imagine the results will reflect the general. Anywho, I have one brother, 2 years younger. I'm cool with how things are, and same with Llama...we've been able to hang out, be friends for most of our lives. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 20:31
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I have two younger brothers and a younger sister. I am the firstborn. All of us are very different people but get along swell. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 20:44
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I have a younger sister (consequently I'm the firstborn). The interesting part is that my father married with 42 and we were born when he was 44 and 46; my mother was 16 years junior than him. Although the age difference between husband and wife was not uncommon for the 1950s their ages were unusual since people married around 20-25 yo then. EDIT: I'm betting that the majority of us will be firstborn.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 20:57
| I'm firstborn as well, with 2 brothers and 2 sisters. |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 22:10
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Firstborn. One half brother Joseph (deceased at age 5), and another half brother Ethan (currently age 8 and lives in another province). |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 22:12
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I have an older sister.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 22:14
| younger sister |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 22:14
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Two sisters. (both are about ten years older) ------------- 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 22:22
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A brother and a half-sister but I don't see her much. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: July 21 2010 at 22:32
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Two younger sisters (one is 3 years younger, the other is 16 years younger), and one older brother (one year older), whom I am good friends with. I am second-born. -------------  
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Posted By: June
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:01
I have a sister who's 11 years older, and a brother who's 10 years older than me. I'm the little baby in my family  . But I get along well with them now (my sister was tougher to get along with for some years), and have plenty in common with both, despite the fact that they were out of the house by the time I was 8 or 9.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:04
Neat poll. I have an older brother and a younger sister (and then there were three?  ). Haven't been in touch with the brother due to his bad behavior a few years ago. My sister and I get along well. Neither of us get along with the brother these days. My Mom came from a big family,  My Dad only had one sister.------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:20
You seem to be right. I'm the first and I have 2 sisters, one is 3 years younger and the other 6 years younger than me. How did you guess that I wonder ? ------------- omri |
Atkingani wrote:Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:45
Oh, I'm the younger  . Two brothers. Though we have similar interests and hobbies, we are not so alike. With one of them are very close and we did everything together. The older is kind of messy but we hang out well... ------------- |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:45
Exactly this.
Interesting how many of the people here are firstborn. It appears to me that most firstborns are often more quiet and laid-back, as most proggers seem to be.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:46
| I'm the youngest, I have 2 older sisters, one of whom got me into prog by bringing home a copy of Nursery Cryme once. |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:51
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I have one older brother, one younger sister and two younger half brothers. We are all friends, but don’t see each other very often since two of us live in Norway, one in Belgium, one in Germany and one in Greece (guess who).
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 10:58
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I am the youngest, older brother and sister - Both like Prog amongst other genres. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 11:34
| I have two half-sisters who I don't live with and hardly ever see. And for the vast majority of my life they didn't exist, so I feel like an only-child. But I voted two sisters. |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 13:02
Also my four siblings (see page 1) like prog, from my oldest brother (4 years older than me) to my youngest (17 years younger than me). First I convinced my big brother (which was quite easy), then, when my sister became 12, she decided she was too old for ABBA and startet listening to VdGG instead. My two youngest brothers never had a chance; we fed them with prog from they were kids. OK, off topic, but I think it’s nice. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 13:24
I wasn't sure...but thus far there have indeed been a lot of firstborns. I know I am more laid back than my younger brother, and while I like metal and he does like prog he seems to be more into straight up death metal and thrash metal and extreme genres. Maybe there is something behind this. Great poll by the way! Pretty cool and refreshing from all those cartoon ones  |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 13:33
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I have 2 younger brothers (who happen to be twins), two half-sisters (one from my father,'s side the other from my mother's side). My two brothers are musicians (each of them had already released two CD with their own bands) and my half-sister had started studies to work in the cartoon field. |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 14:49
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I have one younger sister. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 15:44
| 3. An older sister, an older brother and a younger brother. A decade and a half between the first and the last. |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 16:54
a rather average conclusion .. one younger sister 
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 19:32
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Two brothers, both younger. One I get along with, the other not so much. Both are married with kids. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 19:38
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I'm an only child. LOOK AT MEEEEE! |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 19:40
Combination post/av. Hard to miss you. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 19:41
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Three younger brothers, 2 who aren't related to each other!
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Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: July 22 2010 at 20:20
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A 14 year old sister; the reason why this computer gets infected with NeoPets viruses every other week. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: July 23 2010 at 22:17
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By blood, I have one brother (which is mildly surprising, considering my mom had 5 brothers/sister and my dad 7). (This is what I voted). I have another brother and two sisters through my dads re-marriage. I don't know them too well. For a few years, I had two step-sisters from a long-time girlfriend of my dads, and I knew them much better (they actually felt like siblings because I grew up with them), but I haven't really seen them in years. My girlfriend has two sisters and her and I have been dating long enough that they feel like my sisters. One is my age and the other is 7.
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: July 23 2010 at 22:28
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Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: July 23 2010 at 23:53
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two older brothers from my Dad and younger brother and sister from my mom (different Dad)
My little brother Tommy is infamous cuz he went to Brea High with Hetfield and James asked Tommy to play drums in his band..years later Tommy heard "Enter Sandman" on radio
Brother Jim and David are retired Military Navy and Air force, respectively
Little sis Teri is homemaker with two children
and me, I'm the weirdo ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: July 24 2010 at 00:39
| a brother, a half brother,and two step brothers. |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: July 24 2010 at 03:24
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I have an older sister (she's 25, I'm 23). It's been highly fascinating to notice how different we are in many ways (she's very social and outgoing, me not so much) - and yet our thought patterns are often eerily similar. In any case, she's one of my best friends. ------------- 
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: July 24 2010 at 03:24
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I have a sister 3 years younger, we would probably be vastly different people without each other. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 24 2010 at 03:31
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My older brother (21) has horrible taste in music, and my younger brother (16) plays competitive team sports still they're obviously not related to me although, I get along decently with both of them |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 24 2010 at 06:23
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one each, 14 and 15 years younger than I am. I was a mishap of my parents
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: July 25 2010 at 09:03
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Prog fans seem to be quiet ? Who said that ? Does not fit me anyway ! ------------- omri |
Posted By: fuyuakiworld
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 02:12
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A brother and a half sister plus one other half sister who passed on 3 years ago
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 02:14
I think threads should be autolocked after 2 months of inactivity.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 02:42
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Only child. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 02:54
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Three brothers, no sisters. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 04:45
anywho - one sister - 18 months younger than me - an avid Bowiefreak and has been since we were kids. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 06:26
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Hey now let's not knock people who know how to use the search function. Interesting that the numbers stop at 3-5, with the exception of more than 10, which I suspect was a joke vote, but who knows? ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 07:48
I thought they were autolocked after 6 months. But apparently not. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 07:57
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:30
Gotta love newbies, finding their way around. So much to see! He'll probably be terrified of the shred room. Hell, I'M terrified of the shred room. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:39
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Oh this is great! No one remembers The Miracle? :( He's far from being a noob and used to hang in the old rooms (velvet and suede). Was a well known member I thought. How we forgot our veterans! :( Oh, not to derail. Status is the same. I still have one younger brother |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:43
^He was referring to the fukuyaki guy, not me Anyway, I have one 15 y.o. sister. She;s in that super-annoying-and-messy-teen phase right now. Hope she'll grow out of it soon. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:44
Weakling.  ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:47
Well isn't my face red! Good thing I no longer feel emotions! She will, well I assume. On a related note, in the past year and half (that this thread was up) my younger brother has really grown a lot. No need or want to get into it here, but he's truly grown a lot and seems to be on a path to, (hopefully) finally being happy with himself and life. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:50
Anyways, as he says, I was referring to the other guy. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:54
| If you used to have a non-existent sister, does that mean you have an actual sister now? |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:56
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There is nothing like having a big brother. I remember how crushed I was when he left home
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 18:57
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She's still non existent. Dean (and I think Andy) were so desperate though I didn't want to quash their hope. Which they are still welcome to come here and see her, just a warning to them...I will almost certainly kidnap you and use for ransom. I'm pretty strapped for cash. Also speaking of my younger brother, will be seeing Symphony X with him on Feb 3rd, like 15 minutes from our house! :D Always helps when your sibling shares a pretty similar taste in music! |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 19:23
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I have a sister who is 12 years older than I. I don't know anything about her. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 19:41
My street value is pretty low, you'd have to kidnap me several times, perhaps using some form of kidnap loyalty card so you could collect points each time you kidnapped me and then redeem them for cash or twice their value in air miles or something, then auctioning the air miles on eBay to generate the necessary cash. But then I eat quite a lot so if you kidnapped me you would end up spending all the ransom money on food and I'd bore you to tears with my endless stories of my time as a band manager so you'd probably just let me go or be forced to gnaw off your own ears just so you wouldn't have to listen to my mockney Michael Caine accent drone on about something mildly hillarious that happened to a band you've never heard of in some seedy little venue you've never heard of in some dire and dozy town you've also never heard of. On the plus side I'd get to see some nice wood-clad bungalows in a nice tree lined avenue (though I'm not really interested in counting cars on the New Jersey Turnpike if that's alright with you). ------------- What? |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 19:44
| He could let you gnaw his ears off and save a bit on food. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 19:45
| Depends how exciting the band was (in terms of sex, drug use, destruction etc) and I like Michael Caine so we'll see. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 19:57
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 20:18
^ neither of them appear to get the t-glottalisation of Estuary English correct, then neither of them are from the South.
This guy gets it:
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 20:28
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It ain't worth it anyway unless you can go an hour without blinking. |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 20:53
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I just enjoy saying this... I have one brother one sister one half-brother one half-sister two step-brothers two step-sisters ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: AnnaDanielle
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 07:32
That would be me:) except it took Matt and I 17 years to get along but i like being the youngest and the only girl ------------- I would never cheat in a relationship... That would require TWO people finding me attractive. ..I can barely find one. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 07:36
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My sister and I get along great, but neither of us with my brother who is the firstborn. We have given up.
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Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 08:26
Does this mean you're in military school?
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 08:40
| Most of my life I was convinced my father was the only child, but at the age of 25 I found out (by walking around the city cemetery!) that he actually had a younger brother who died at a young age. My grandmother never talked about this, but my father confirmed it. I still don't know why they were hiding it. |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 08:47
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I have a younger sister. ------------- 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 09:43
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I'm an only child thankfully.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 11:15
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I have one younger sister who's very different from me, but we've always gotten along. She's the likeable, outgoing one, and I'm the quiet, iconoclastic one. We never fought, but to this day we have very few common interests apart from our respective kids.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 11:19
We didn't fight much except for my sis and bro a little. My bro and I did play a mean trick on sis when we were kids. She was looking for mom to dress her and we sent her out to a neighbor's house. She went out naked carrying her clothes. Rotten rotten rotten of us. I'm so glad she doesn't harbor any resentment. This was when we were pre-teen in Virginia so I was probably about 5, my bro about 9 and sis about 3. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 16:03
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Older brother who lives in the north of Australia We do not see each other a lot but we do get on. Just different lives these days. ------------- Matt |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: March 27 2012 at 23:31
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I assume I devoured my twin in the womb -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 04:24
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older of the three brothers
The middle one has the crappiest tastes in music (actually he doesn't give a sh*t about music), but he's generally mainstream... don't see much of him, he's a ... don't like each other much... "Monsieur" is an engineer and thinks he should be treated with a special deference
the younger one is more in classical and calls much of my music that "weird jazz-rock stuff" (he actually likes some of it, like Bitches Brew)..; he's defintely more accessible, but you can't count on him too much...
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: March 28 2012 at 04:33
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I have a twin that was either given away or stolen at birth. My parents won't admit this, but I can feel it.
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: April 01 2012 at 21:28
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I have a younger sister.
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: April 01 2012 at 22:03
I have a younger sister. She's 27 and getting married this November! 
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: April 04 2012 at 05:45
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One younger brother whom I very sucessfully converted to Prog! ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: April 04 2012 at 11:46
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Three older brothers and an older sister. My oldest brother listened to ELP and ELO. My middle brother listened to Genesis, Yes, Focus, Kayak, Jethro Tull amongst other bands. My youngest brother listened to Procol Harum. My sister listened to Bee Gees and French chansonniers. My brothers very much influenced my later taste in music. But so did my sister, because I still like Bee Gees and French chansonniers. |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: April 04 2012 at 12:21
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I have a sister who's six years younger than me. She doesn't listen to prog. -------------  
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