10:38
AM Mr. Brown
10:40
AM Mr. Brown
So
11 guys just “made” Asia.
Hehe
11:01
AM Mr. Silver
Isn't,
like, 30% of Europe descended from one of the King Edwards?
11:02
AM Mr. Blue
Most
of western Europe belongs to the r1b1 haplogroup, which is related to
Tsar Nicholas the II, I think, including myself.
11:09
AM Mr. Blue
Since
all the monarchs were related in some way anyway, I guess we're all
related then.
Isn't
Queen Elizabeth even supposedly a descendant of Mohammed?
11:10
AM Mr. Silver
Apparently.
"We
can therefore conclude...insofar as access to the ladies is
concerned...'It's
good ta be da king!"
11:11
AM Mr. Brown
I'm
Scottish and German
11:24
AM Mr. Silver
The
problem with "German", of course, is who are you talking
about?
There
was no unified "Germany" until pretty recently.
1880s?
So
are you German or germanic?
If
you are germanic...well...so are we.
Mr.
Blue more recently, me further back.
11:31
AM Mr. Brown
Well,
there is Dutch too.
11:31
AM Mr. Silver
You,
sir, are a United States American.
11:31
AM Mr. Brown
English,
Dutch, French, Asian
Hehe
11:32
AM Mr. Silver
Three
relatively recent nations and an entire friggin' continent?
Homo
sapiens sapiens
11:32
AM Mr. Silver
Cosmetically
you are merely Caucasian.
11:32
AM Mr. Brown
Which
makes me translucent.
11:33
AM Mr. Silver
(native
squaw for butter commercial) "My people call it 'Honky'."
11:33
AM Mr. Brown
Somebody
said somewhere in the family there was Native American, but
apparently it was not important enough to keep track of, so probably
not.
However
It would be nice to find out if there is a Native American in my
heritage. Then I can say this is the land of my people.
11:37
AM Mr. Silver
Bleh
11:37
AM Mr. Brown
Well,
at least if you find out, could know what tribe you might be able to
claim, I think that would be cool.
11:38
AM Mr. Silver
And
there it is...that's where this was going...
11:38
AM Mr. Brown
Apparently
they have cards.
11:39
AM Mr. Blue
If
you're, like, 4% Native American, it's hard to claim America as your
own.
11:40
AM Mr. Brown
Right.
I
would like to know how much.
If
I can claim my tribe and be accepted in it, that would be cool.
11:45
AM Mr. Silver
(Mr.
Brown on reservation) "Greetings grandfathers...I come to you
wishing to be cool."
11:46
AM Mr. Blue
"When
do I get a tomahawk and a percentage of the casino earnings?"
11:47
AM Mr. Brown
Actually
it would be nice to take a journey of the mind
11:47
AM Mr. Silver
The
concept you want is “spirit quest' and it has nothing to do with
the mind...
(Mr.
Brown at reservation) "Across the long years...across the many
seasons...my ancestors walked this land beneath the stars. At least
one of them didn't take your land or massacre anyone in this
particular
tribe."
11:49
AM Mr. Silver
"We
call him Walks Cool 6%, though we know not his true name and the in-laws
covered it up."
11:51
AM Mr. Silver
(I
being too mean?)
11:51
AM Mr. Brown
Hold
on. Sharpening my tomahawk and painting my face.
11:52
AM Mr. Silver
I
mean, I've apparently got the whole "4 coats of arms"
thing, but I'm never going to try to figure it out.
11:52
AM Mr. Blue
"My
great great great grandfather raped your great great great great
aunt! So we're basically brothers!"
11:52
AM Mr. Brown
Relations
level: Ultimate
11:56
AM Mr. Silver
This
stuff is much more important to the nearly non-extant aristocracies
of the world than it is to any normal modern people now.
11:59
AM Mr. Brown
I
mainly would want to find relatives I could visit.
Hehe
Show
up Germany - “Hey! What's up relatives? Take me to Oktoberfest
now!”
11:59
AM Mr. Silver
"Relatives
I could visit that have lots of money or that are cool...preferably both."
12:05
PM Mr. Silver
Honestly,
I'd rather see if I could get accepted by the mongols or college of
heralds under Edward the Third.
12:07
PM Mr. Brown
OK,
so something that's fun is finding other people with your name on
ancestry.com.
I
just found one.
|
NAME:
|
Mr. Brown |
|
BIRTH:
|
abt 1875 - Northern
Ireland |
|
RESIDENCE:
|
1935 -
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
|
RESIDENCE:
|
Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
12:09
PM Mr. Blue
"Arrested
for buggery - 1921"
12:18
PM Mr. Silver
"Charge
of possession overturned, deemed feebleminded by parish - 1910"
I
always wondered about the conspicuously missing records on those old
family trees
"Thackery,
Edward -- Vance, Beverly"
Then
a list of four kids names and their spouses.
And
then "Son" 1832-1905
"Son"
eh?
This
the “Son” hidden up in the attic?
Or
the half Native American cool one?
12:32
PM Mr. Blue
Back
when they didn't name you until you were 5 because you were likely to
die.
"We
aren't wasting a good name on another crib death."
12:33
PM Mr. Silver
"When
the dog dies, the kid gets 'Timmy' next."
"Agreed."
12:34
PM Mr. Blue
And
back then it'd be a name like "Defiance" or "Gertrude"
12:34
PM Mr. Brown
I
would like to name him Didntdie
12:35
PM Mr. Blue
Pleasedonot
Diesuddenly Brown
12:47
PM Mr. Silver
Madeit
Silver
12:49
PM Mr. Brown
Mom,
why is my name Thirteen?
1:00
PM Mr. Blue
"Well,
that was a bet... 13 was the over/under."
"Did
you take the over or the under?"
"Say,
who wants ice cream?"
9:03
Mr Brown
OH
SHIT A RED RANGER WENT ROGUE!
Used
his powers for evil.
9:04
AM Mr. Silver
Power
Rangers Are GO!-ing to prison for a while...
9:07
AM Mr. Silver
"Ricardo
'Red Ranger' Medina Jr. didn't realize that swords are actually sharp
after his months of on-screen fighting."
9:15
AM Mr. Blue
Heh...
From his Wikipedia page:
Ricardo
Medina, Jr. (born July 6, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is an
American actor of Puerto Rican descent, and the first Puerto Rican
Power Ranger to be accused of murder[1].
9:16
AM Mr. Silver
Nice.
"I
just expected him to, like, spin around and disappear or
something...maybe a squib and some colored smoke. Guy didn't even
shape change!"
9:23
AM Mr. Silver
"Psychologists
inquired if Medina believed he had also transformed. He stated that
he pushed his watch face and performed his kata, so assumed so, but
didn't check."
Mr.
Brown
In
other news: Six more weeks of winter
Hehe
12:04
PM Mr. Silver
Hehe
12:05
PM Mr. Brown
Also
a full day of Bill Murray on TV.
12:05
PM Mr. Silver
"Punxsutawney
Phil predicts he wants to go back in his cage and munch pellets."
"Once
again...100% accuracy!"
12:06
PM Mr. Brown
I
forget how we came to have that tradition.
12:09
PM Ms. Rose
I
went out to Punxsutawney one year for the whole ordeal. (Yes, I have
quite the exciting life.) I thought St. Patrick's Day was bad in
Pittsburgh... Man, those groundhog people were all drunk and
loitering by 10am the day before!
And
it's such a crap-hole town. I don't think any of the stores or
streets have changed since they filmed the movie. Probably not, on
purpose.
12:11
PM Mr. Silver
Well,
the big money influx for the years is one day, and it's over in the early AM.
'T'ain't
Disneyworld loot.
12:13
PM Mr. Silver
In
fact, if they sold Phil and the show to Disney for a modest sum,
they'd probably be able to rebuild the entire place.
12:14
PM Ms. Rose
True
that! I just can't ever think of "Gobbler's Knob" without
the Beavis & Butthead voices in my head.
12:16
PM Mr. Silver
“Uh....heh
heh...Gobbler."
“Hmm...hm...knob...hmm!”
12:17
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
12:17
PM Mr. Silver
I
can't remember who told me so, but I was told once that about 80% of
the people that come to see it are foreign exchange students and
their host families.
12:18
PM Mr. Blue
Why?
12:18
PM Mr. Silver
"Here
kids. Something else to remember about why not to move to the USA."
"Along
with none of us being able to dance for crap."
12:19
PM Ms. Rose
Ever
go to Niagra Falls? I've never seen so many people from so many
foreign colleges in one place.
12:19
PM Mr. Silver
Sorry...the
dance thing was an add-in from a demo from the two kids from South
American civilizations in my 11th grade.
12:23
PM Ms. Rose
Of
course, the Falls are one of the 'wonders of the world' though,
aren't they? Not sure Gobbler's Knob qualifies as a 'wonder'.
“Uhhh
huh huh...you said knob again. Huh huh!”
12:38
PM Mr. Silver
"Wonder
what knob gobbler thought this place was worth visiting over anywhere
else in the world?"
12:38
PM Ms. Rose
HAHAHAHA!
"Bah,
screw it. I think the Falls are only a 6-hour drive from here."
No comments:
Post a Comment