Very few family stories, but my parents went back to the village church they went to in Portugal (Feteiras on the island of San Miguel) to look up family marriages/births/deaths. They were able to go back easily on both sides to 1750-1800, and the oldest set of records they could find dated to mid 16th century or around then...
Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.
'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
CaBil - May 20, 2008 5:32:53 pm PDT #9890 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Connie Neil - May 20, 2008 5:44:55 pm PDT #9891 of 10001
brillig
Most of my people had the good taste to be religious malcontents and fortune hunters and came over in the late 1600s and 1700s, so they show up in lots of books. The other ones plopped themselves down in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and didn't move for several generations.
Hil R. - May 20, 2008 6:02:34 pm PDT #9892 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I have one relative (my great-grandfather's first cousin) who was the first person in New Jersey convicted under Prohibition. The conviction was later overturned because the prosecution hadn't shown that he actually intended to sell the liquor -- they'd just shown that he accepted a huge shipment, and happened to own a tavern. He also testified in a case related to the Lindberg baby case (and as far as I can tell, his testimony was most likely entirely false.)
amych - May 20, 2008 6:04:06 pm PDT #9893 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
That's some good lawyering!
SailAweigh - May 20, 2008 6:06:47 pm PDT #9894 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I have reasonable doubt that, while the liquor was never sold, it sure didn't go to waste.
Hil R. - May 20, 2008 6:09:26 pm PDT #9895 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah. Pretty much all the lawyers and police officers involved in that case were accused of taking bribes at some point.
Laura - May 20, 2008 6:16:33 pm PDT #9896 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
flops into thread exhausted
I can't really catch up. I've been stuck at a trade show the last couple days. Blah. That was non-fun enough but I was late getting there today because my son was suspended for 10 days from school. This with 13 days left. Then when I got to the show I decided to check my voice messages and I had a message from the other son's teacher about his failing grade.
Son is appealing the suspension. I get his points, but I keep trying to make him understand that The Teacher Is Always Right. He'll get it at some point. He wrote a long email to his other teachers explaining the situation and asking their support in the form of a statement that he is not an insubordinate kinda guy. Also soliciting statements from a large number of other students in this class. MySpace and email make this possible.
He is supposed to be able to come and take his exams in the office, but there are all the end of year group projects and so forth to coordinate.
Who knows how it will all end, but I do know it will be some type of learning experience.
Silver lining - I don't have to get up at 6am!
Love the new name PixChick. And smooches to Sail for being helpful chick.
So tired.
Pix - May 20, 2008 6:19:33 pm PDT #9897 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Thanks, Laura! So sorry about the headache with your son. You're absolutely right--it will work out--but it's so not fun in the meantime. Hang in there.
meara - May 20, 2008 6:28:52 pm PDT #9898 of 10001
Okay, what the fuck? Honestly, I was in a hurry (to, um, get to a bar) when I called him, so I really wasn't listening that carefully. And I did pick up that he was reluctant. But - what the fuck did he say? And honestly, I can't imagine he said that much. But what he was thinking is pretty fucking clear. And pissing me off. (And hello - I asked for a week's worth of amoxycillin, not a month of fucking Oxycontin or Xanax or something
Um, yeah, that IS pretty weird. I mean, I can even understand that doctors and dentists may be reluctant to overprescribe antibiotics and possibly create resistance yadda yadda, but...WTF dude? I suppose you just have to go with the idea that at least he DID prescribe them, and clearly he ended up feeling bad, and if you like him in person, maybe give him the benefit of the doubt that he just expressed himself poorly? Maybe kinda tell him that next time you see him?
But yeesh. Imagine if you HAD been asking for some painkillers for the tooth that was WAKING YOU UP AT NIGHT.
Laura - May 20, 2008 6:52:27 pm PDT #9899 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I had to scroll back and read the dentist thing. Brenda, my take is that he normally is patient and nice on the phone but was curt and rude in his opinion. Maybe because of some other unrelated issue, or a recent serious drug seeking patient. He may not have even sounded all that insensitive to you but he may hold himself to a higher standard and genuinely feels bad that he didn't respond to you in the way you deserved.