July 22, 2008
DOESN'T THIS ALL HAVE TO BE ILLEGAL SOMEHOW?:
Identical twins marry, give birth to identical twins (Daily Telegraph, 7/22/08)
When identical twin sisters Diane and Darlene Nettemeier met identical twin brothers Craig and Mark Sanders a decade ago, they could never have guessed just how much of their lives would be based around perfect sets of two.Posted by Orrin Judd at July 22, 2008 4:01 PMThe sets of twins, from Texas, fell in love, went on a double date to Las Vegas, and won thousands of dollars at poker.
Sensing they were on a winning streak, they got engaged on the same day, married at a joint ceremony (officially "quarternary marriages"), and built a pair of homes, side by side.
Soon afterwards, despite a million-to-one odds, Diane and Craig went on to have identical twins of their own - Colby and Brady, now seven.
But the happy unions weren't all down to incredible odds - one decade after they started dating Craig, 44, and Diane, 37, are returning to the Twin Day festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, where they met in 1998.
b: Indeed. The odds of having identical twins are about 1 in 285, and I doubt the odds would get higher just because the parents are both twins. If anything they'd get lower.
OJ: Not illegal, but what a sitcom premise!
Posted by: PapayaSF at July 22, 2008 6:14 PM
"despite a million-to-one odds"
I don't believe for a millionth of a second that this statistic is correct.
Posted by: b at July 22, 2008 5:05 PM