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When I was a junior at Pitt I had this serious gf. I went to NYC with her to meet the family. By an unfortunate coincidence her grand father died of Leukemia (might be remembering disease wrong, but I think this was it) right before we got there. So I end up going to the funeral with her. Obviously this was awkward.

It got more awkward because I ended up sitting mostly by myself on a couch surrounded by all the young kids there. I'm not particularly good with kids, but I was winning points with her family by just keeping them out of everyones hair.

I start running low on material with the kids so I go to an old stand by. I decide I'm going to do the "do you know if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer" joke. For those of you that don't know this joke, when the guy puts his hand up to his face you push on it and make him hit himself in the face.

So any way I say to one of the kids "did you know that if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer?" Some how a dozen or more of the adults in the vicinity hear this and the whole room seems to go quiet. Apparently Leukemia is a form of cancer.