I was browsing my wife's livejournal just now. (Oo-er missus etc.) And I realised something that had previously escaped me.
I'm an Uncle. Not whatever my relationship with my various cousins' children is (second cousin? something a number of times removed? Ahah, it turns out they're First cousins once removed, and please insert your own Alice in Wonderland joke here). Not something with the term "-in-law" added, as if to say that, OK, you're related, but you're the wrong type and there's no genes involved. No, I appear to be a full-blown Uncle. Sibling relationships appear to ignore marriage caveats.
(Victoria Cohen, in "Once More With Feeling", from what I can tell from frantic googling, went on about how uncles were stalwarts of porn films, from what I can remember of browsing said book in a bookshop somewhere in England, I believe. I'd post something more useful, if there were to be anything useful to be found on the public Internet about Ms Cohen and/or her books. Censorship or just publishers being rubbish?)
