Free Association Thread 5

[oggbashan]

For some years, one of my cousins has been working away, trying to trace our family tree. So far, he has gone back 21 generations to a chap named Wulfstan. I don't think that Wulfstan was an alien.

According to Ancestry.co.uk and other researchers my maternal ancestry is just ridiculously unbelievable.

There was a very productive 18th Century woman called Lettice who had 12 children all of whom married and had at least 12 children each (One of Lettice's ancestors was John Prick, son of John Prick.)

But another branch of the maternal line was from a younger daughter of a nobleman who was dispossed of his ancestral home for being on the wrong side at the wrong time. She married a yeoman - a real comedown in social status. But the nobleman, her father, was descended from the Counts of Provence and King Henry II of England. And those two? Apparently they are descended from:

The Norse God Odin or Woden (and his wife Frigg)

Julius Caesar
Cleopatra

and Caesar and Cleopatra's ancestors include:

The Roman Goddess Venus
The Greek Goddess Aphrodite
The Egyptian Goddess Isis (and her husband Osiris)

I said it was ridiculous.

 

[Handley_Page]

According to Ancestry.co.uk and other researchers my maternal ancestry is just ridiculously unbelievable.


The Egyptian Goddess Isis (and her husband Osiris)

I said it was ridiculous.

So Horus (son of Isis & Osiris) had offspring ?
And I never knew. . . . .

 

[oggbashan]

So Horus (son of Isis & Osiris) had offspring ?
And I never knew. . . . .

Neither did I. I think they must have been bastards.

 

[Handley_Page]

Neither did I. I think they must have been bastards.

Weren't most of them ?

 

[JKendallDane]

Weren't most of them ?

Helps liven up the family reunions though.

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[Handley_Page]

Helps liven up the family reunions though.

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Only after the various appearances before the Magistrate.

 

[latecomer91364]

Only after the various appearances before the Magistrate.

Ugh... do I really have to post bail for my brother again?

 

[SamScribble]

Ugh... do I really have to post bail for my brother again?

Does he do it for you? That's the question.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Does he do it for you? That's the question.

"To bail or not to bail: is that the question?"

 

[latecomer91364]

"To bail or not to bail: is that the question?"

I'm not bailing out of a perfectly good airplane - not even for my brother..

 

[JKendallDane]

I'm not bailing out of a perfectly good airplane - not even for my brother..

Watch that first step...it's a doozy!

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[Handley_Page]

"There is no logical reason for anyone to leave a perfectly working flying airplane"

 

[Trumpire]

"What Would You Do?" host last night opened & closed show from a flight museum in NC... Meanwhile, I have read positive & negative reviews of "The Orville".

 

[Handley_Page]

"What Would You Do?" host last night opened & closed show from a flight museum in NC... Meanwhile, I have read positive & negative reviews of "The Orville".

Write my Will ?

 

[SamScribble]

Write my Will ?

'Come on, baby, write my will'? No. I think 'light my fire' still works better.

 

[JKendallDane]

'Come on, baby, write my will'? No. I think 'light my fire' still works better.

Especially if you open the right Doors.

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[Noor]

The first AMERICAN publication for women.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/20/women-pressandpublishing

For a few brief weeks in 1693, the first women's magazine in British history grappled with what would become a staple ingredient of the genre: relationship problems. The Ladies' Mercury promised to answer any questions relating to "Love etc" with "the Zeal and Softness becoming to the Sex". All the readers had to do was send in details of puzzling male behaviour to a coffee house near St Paul's and wait for "the Ladies Society" there to crack the code, or at least come up with some bracing advice about not bothering. The Mercury lasted for just four issues and was, in a pattern that would echo down the centuries, published by a man. None the less, it was the first time that "women" as a special interest category had been defined as needing a magazine, a paper room, of their very own.

I stand corrected

welcome back
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Thank you!

 

[latecomer91364]

I hope everybody in FLA comes through okay, and for some reason, I'm thinking of the Hooters on Gandy in Tampa Bay - it's been a few years, but I hope the girls are alright.

 

[JKendallDane]

I hope everybody in FLA comes through okay, and for some reason, I'm thinking of the Hooters on Gandy in Tampa Bay - it's been a few years, but I hope the girls are alright.

I remember when we got hit by Erin in 1995...the most popular t-shirt afterward was: "I survived Erin's blow job"

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[Handley_Page]

I remember when we got hit by Erin in 1995...the most popular t-shirt afterward was: "I survived Erin's blow job"

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Brilliant. I must remember that one for our next severe blow.

 

[latecomer91364]

Brilliant. I must remember that one for our next severe blow.

Mmm... reminds me of a girl from San Francisco I once knew. The severity with which she blew was second to none.

 

[SamScribble]

Mmm... reminds me of a girl from San Francisco I once knew. The severity with which she blew was second to none.

'Suck, Mary Lou. Suck. Blow is just a turn of phrase.'

 

[Comentarista82]

'Suck, Mary Lou. Suck. Blow is just a turn of phrase.'

Buddy Holly singing "Peggy Sue."

 

[latecomer91364]

Buddy Holly singing "Peggy Sue."

I hear she got married

 

[Handley_Page]

I hear she got married

So I'm told.
But I remember a girl called Mary-Lou.


PS. I see the 'Climate Change debate is raging even more; See Here.