Congrats on the engagement! And, hey, tow trucks can be romantic-- that's where my cousin met her husband of many years!
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
bon bon - Sep 25, 2007 5:58:30 pm PDT #2989 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
dcp - Sep 25, 2007 5:59:48 pm PDT #2990 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
How far back have various people gotten with their ancestral tracking?
I've got one line back 16 generations, to a Thomas Culton who lived (b. 1480) and died (d.1524) in Beeford, Yorkshire. I have a bunch of lines that go back ten to twelve generations.
One of the best things I ever did was post my family tree online. It has generated an incredible number of contacts over the last nine years, and prompted several branches of my family to record and preserve family stories, photos, and documents that would otherwise have been lost.
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2007 6:02:08 pm PDT #2991 of 10001
brillig
One of the best things I ever did was post my family tree online.
I need to put my genealogy back online, but I can't afford another website. Maybe I can find a free hosting aimed at genealogy.
sarameg - Sep 25, 2007 6:03:51 pm PDT #2992 of 10001
I'll hope.
Strix - Sep 25, 2007 6:24:01 pm PDT #2993 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My dad has traced one line back to the 1400's, and another line, the Sallee's, back to, I think, the late 1600's? 1700's? Anyway, whenever the Heugnots (sp?) were around in France.
The only geneology that sticks with me is a crazy French Heugnot ancestor, Jacob Sallee, who evidently used to stand up in church and scream that the preacher/priest/whatev was in league with Satan.
Either he was all crazy or a demon-hunter, but I gotta admit, I got a soft spot for ol' Crazy Jake.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2007 6:26:33 pm PDT #2994 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there an analogy to meet cute for wedding proposals? Well, I guess you just call them a cute wedding proposal.
My sister just left me a snarky voicemail about some hookup of mine appearing on TV tonight. She should be planning her next bingo, not taunting me. I'll learn her, one of these days.
dcp - Sep 25, 2007 6:31:08 pm PDT #2995 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
connie, I use WorldConnect [link] at Rootsweb.com [link]
It's free, even after being taken over by Ancestry.com.
eta: I put the link to my tree back in my profile.
Strix - Sep 25, 2007 6:39:30 pm PDT #2996 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Wow. I went digging around for my dad'd geneology stuff on the web (he uses/used Family Tree Maker) and I found me. Note the use of the word "was":
1. Erin Elizabeth, born August 23, 1972 in St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., MO.1. She was the daughter of 2. Jerry Thomas and 3. Patsy Ruth .
Notes for Erin Elizabeth: Graduated Central High, St. Joseph, MO. 1990 Graduated Northwest MO. State University, Maryville, MO., Dec. 1994; BA in English. Graduated UMKC in May of 1997 with MA in English
More About Erin Elizabeth: Baptism: November 14, 1982, Woodson Chapel Christian Church2 Ethnicity/Relig.: Christian
My baptism date! That's crazy! I was 10?! So weird...full immersion in a tub at the front of the church. We had a special permanent "grotto" for baptism.
I remember it pretty vividly, although I am not at all religious. I wore a swimsuit under my white robe, and a swimming cap.
Hee. Funny!
BigDuluth - Sep 25, 2007 6:41:17 pm PDT #2997 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
My sister just left me a snarky voicemail about some hookup of mine appearing on TV tonight. She should be planning her next bingo, not taunting me. I'll learn her, one of these days.
Ah yes, spoken like a true sibling... that said I'M GOING TO BE AN UNCLE!...and am a little bit on the drunk side...d-oh
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2007 6:52:55 pm PDT #2998 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ooh! It's genre bingo on BBCA tonight. You need to crossover between Heroes and BSG, use Jamie Bamber and Sendhil Ramamurthy appearing together in Ultimate Force.
Along with Annie from Life on Mars. Pretty damned tidy, if you ask me.
Congratulations, BigD! Between a best friend and a sister I almost got talked into procreating (kids who are great grandkids of Duke Ellington and not actually raised by me have their appeal) yesterday but I snapped out of it before it was...well, it's not like I've met the putative father. Still. You never know how these things can develop if you're not careful.