I am not the genealogist in my family - on either side - but both sides have had rabid ones. My maternal grandfather's ancestry is clear back to 1630, Massachusetts Bay (I am a 15th generation American!), and my paternal grandfather is back to the 1600s too (Scots/Irish).
Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.
'Sleeper'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
flea - Sep 25, 2007 9:41:36 am PDT #2887 of 10001
information libertarian
shrift - Sep 25, 2007 9:42:22 am PDT #2888 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
You'll be happy to know I've been spreading the gospel of boys in eyeliner far and wide.
This warms the black cockles of my crusty little punkass heart.
Susan W. - Sep 25, 2007 9:43:52 am PDT #2889 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
How far back have various people gotten with their ancestral tracking? I've got a couple of lines reliably back to the 1600s--hooray for early immigrants and obsessive-compulsive New England genealogists--and one line traditionally back to the 1200s.
A genealogy-obsessed second cousin got one line of my family all the way back to the late 16th century, but when I had to do my family tree for 11th grade American history most of the lines petered out somewhere between 1820 and 1850. I'm sure if I was really into genealogy I could push it back a bit further, though.
brenda m - Sep 25, 2007 9:46:37 am PDT #2890 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
WASP -- The one person I know who's embraced the designation was pretty solidly middle-middle class (as in, lived on the "poor side" of one of the richest suburbs in America).
I don't think of WASP as necessarily wealthy. To me it has a more whitebread, "republican-cloth-coat" feel to it.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2007 9:47:16 am PDT #2891 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, black crusty cockles sounds icky, no matter how punkass.
Can you have moist crusty cockles?
juliana - Sep 25, 2007 9:47:30 am PDT #2892 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
How far back have various people gotten with their ancestral tracking?
Great-grandparents, and that's it. Grandpa doesn't even know which village he was born in in the old country, so anything earlier is pretty much gone. Hooray for peasants!
Emily - Sep 25, 2007 9:47:54 am PDT #2893 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Maybe middle-class, but I too wouldn't assume servants-and-prep-schools from WASP.
Nutty - Sep 25, 2007 9:49:04 am PDT #2894 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think moist things, by definition, are not crusty. You only get crustiness when you dry things out. Hence the difference between pie dough and pie.
"republican-cloth-coat"
What does this phrase mean? I think I have a general "staid conservative" vibe from it, but the cloth-coat part is a mystery to me.
tommyrot - Sep 25, 2007 9:49:16 am PDT #2895 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
aurelia, are you/they sure it's not just the engine computer notifying you of scheduled maintenance for the timing chain?
Kat - Sep 25, 2007 9:49:59 am PDT #2896 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
moist crusty cockles?
that sounds so icky.