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Neoma

(10,039 posts) Fri May 11, 2012, 09:36 PM May 2012

I'm The Smart One, She's The Pretty One

The other day my friend Christopher, who has not met my sister, offered me an analysis of our relationship.

“You know,” he said. “You’re one of those sibling pairs where one of you is the bombastic one and one of you is the dry sardonic one. You’re the bombastic one.”

Okay, so A) no, I was not aware of that apparently standard method of classifying siblings. But also B) Christopher is one of my freelancers, meaning that B1) it’s in his professional interest to not piss me off and B2) he is pretty well aware that being sardonic is my day job. So why does my sister get to be “the sardonic one”? The hell?

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I'm The Smart One, She's The Pretty One (Original Post) Neoma May 2012 OP

I've more than once run across SheilaT May 2012 #1

I was told once that I was the funniest one of my siblings wellstone dem May 2012 #2

you seem to have a sense of humor to me. iemitsu May 2012 #3

You're never funny to your kids TexasProgresive May 2012 #4

SheilaT

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1. I've more than once run across

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Fri May 11, 2012, 09:52 PM

May 2012

sibling pairs being labelled as one is the pretty one and one is the smart one. But NEVER bombastic and dry, sardonic.

I was the smart one in my family, and both the older and the younger sisters got labelled as the pretty one.