(Pelting Betsy and Amy with petrified Timbits.)
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Sue - Feb 03, 2003 11:28:17 am PST #1670 of 9843
hip deep in pie
Betsy HP - Feb 03, 2003 11:28:36 am PST #1671 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
Doesn't Tim miss them?
Sue - Feb 03, 2003 11:31:40 am PST #1672 of 9843
hip deep in pie
Betsy HP - Feb 03, 2003 11:35:05 am PST #1673 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
Ah. Dunkin' Muchkins.
t resumes running
t realizes that insulting Canadians is very aerobic
Penny B. - Feb 03, 2003 12:30:42 pm PST #1674 of 9843
Nobody
Me too, but I consider the Canadians to be unUn as well.
No, the Canadians are UN. You can tell, because they get Buffy on Monday nights. Also, they say "aboot".
Setting huge poutine trap where you'll least expect it.
Trudy Booth - Feb 03, 2003 12:56:43 pm PST #1675 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Setting huge poutine trap where you'll least expect it.
t Super Porny Pants swoops in and makes the "Now that just sounds dirty" face.
amyparker - Feb 03, 2003 12:57:36 pm PST #1676 of 9843
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
t switching to jet pack, offering one to Betsy
Betsy HP - Feb 03, 2003 1:02:50 pm PST #1677 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
t swoops around scattering "All Your TV Shows Are Belong To Us" leaflets
Penny B. - Feb 03, 2003 1:09:31 pm PST #1678 of 9843
Nobody
rigging Canadarm to grab Betsy and amyparker.
Caroma - Feb 03, 2003 1:43:14 pm PST #1679 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
Yep, Grandma was from Nova Scotia, in the township of Glencoe near Mabou, near the western shore. The famous Beatons of Mabou (Celtic fiddlers) are from there.
Here's the cemetery where some of my relatives are buried. Hugh MacDonald and John Angus Beaton were my great-uncles; I met them both several times. My great-grandparents are also there (they're not on the list), and I brought a lock of my Brooklyn-buried grandmother's hair to bury on their graves when I visited in 2000. Great Grandpa helped to build that pretty little church in 1908.
The Ancestral Link to the Old World is Alexander McDonald, b. Lockaber, Scotland 1826, d. Glencoe November 26, 1914. The immediate cause why they left was because of the enclosure laws, although being Roman Catholic also didn't help back there either. And while most of NS is in much better shape than it was when Grandma left in 1936 to find work in America, it's still kind of messed up; to this day various cousins of mine from up there come down south, work for a few years to make some decent money, and then go back up and build a little house.
I guess part of the whole Europe/America thing is that sometimes the circumstances under which folks left the Old World were so heinous--cossacks trampling your crops, fox hunters ruining your fences, corruption and bribery, laws that restricted where your ethnicity could live or work, official state religions, the obscene idea of a hereditary noble class, and so on--that many immigrants actually forbade their kids to speak the native language and dropped their old customs and beliefs with gratitude, to make a new life free from the baggage of whatever poverty-stricken hellhole they'd fled from. So, a couple of generations down the line, when the descendents are more comfortable here, people relax and start to look for the good things about their ancestral culture. But, for my family at least and maybe many others, there's always a slight distance. I mean, Scotland just. didn't. want. us. We're happy to learn about the Clan McDonald tartan and meet family historians when we go over there, but America's now our home and we thank God old Alexander left for Canada.