A cowgirl?
That's got to be the Texas, no? (Not that part of Texas.)
Some people juggle geese!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2012 5:22:46 pm PST #19449 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2012 5:24:50 pm PST #19450 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's my Caribbean heritage that makes me.... I don't know what.
Such a good dancer?
No, I don't really have much other than pothead.
Sue - Jan 31, 2012 5:25:18 pm PST #19451 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I just found my Auntie Mamie on Ancestry with the dates 1898-1898. She actually died in 1984.
And ew, I accidentally stumbled upon an account, by someone who sat on the jury, of the murder trial for the guy who beheaded my dad's cousin (and her dog) and another person on a beach on one of the US Virgin Islands. I did not need that level of detail, thank you
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2012 5:28:35 pm PST #19452 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My grandfather came to Canada because HOMG! TRAINS!
No, seriously. HOMG! TRAINS!
He was apparently brilliant, good with maths and languages, and was expected to go into teaching, but dropped out of everything to clerk at a train station before deciding he had to go somewhere with MOAR TRAINS.
His eventual bride was the first in her family (err, possibly the first--everyone is unclear about the actual date of birth of her stillborn brother) born in Canada. My great-grandfather had grown up a workhouse orphan, and her mother who knew him from church had corresponded with him after he left for Canada and came out to marry him.
Apparently, she wasn't allowed to take my grandmother back to England when she went for a visit home in 1912, because my great-grandfather didn't expect she'd return if she did.
I'm told he was pious and miserable.
And yet, still an improvement Gram's dad.
sarameg - Jan 31, 2012 5:30:11 pm PST #19453 of 30001
And now I apparently am partly responsible for hooking up two unrelated (common norwegian name) in marriage!
I've got genuine not heresay links to Waldos (as in Emerson) and Brontes. Very, very, very distant cousins up the line. Still ain't a writer.
Ginger - Jan 31, 2012 5:30:31 pm PST #19454 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I made the A team in roller derby and my league got into WFTDA--the Women's Flat Track Roller Derby Association.
Yay!
Ancestry.com showed me that none of the thousands of descendants of Morris Tucker, who was first mentioned in 1659 as a householder in Salisbury, Mass., knows where the hell he came from. Some people like to think he came by way of Bermuda, but they just want to be related to Gov. Tucker. As a cousin once said, "I can get him back to the water, but I can't get him on that damned boat."
DebetEsse - Jan 31, 2012 5:32:29 pm PST #19455 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
If we ever manage to develop time-travel technology, it's going to be the geneologists who have the most fun with it.
DavidS - Jan 31, 2012 5:32:45 pm PST #19456 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
he had to go somewhere with MOAR TRAINS.
Heh. A lot of the innovations in American computer science are offshoots of Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT. Train people have science brains!
Sophia Brooks - Jan 31, 2012 5:33:36 pm PST #19457 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I feel it is less creepy to email someone saying "I came across this info on Ancestry.com" rather than "I stalked you n the internet". Ancestry does not give first names, but their last name is Darling, which is super easy to trace. Just that Mrs Darling (related to my grandfather) actually was estranged from Mr. Darling and was living with some (according to my mom) really hot guy in the late 1950's.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2012 5:38:20 pm PST #19458 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I feel it is less creepy to email someone saying "I came across this info on Ancestry.com" rather than "I stalked you n the internet"
If someone found me on ancestry.com I'd feel myself pretty stalked on the internet, really. And I'd be furious at whoever put my information out there. At least with Intelius it's my own fucking fault.