My mom was born in Manchester, omnis. After my grandfather died when she was 2 years old, they came here.

Which is why I thought for years he was born there, too. Not so: he was born and raised in Lebanon (the family migrated from Riga, had the base at Rishon LeZion (one of the first settlements in Israel, and had a contract from a wine company to supervise the vineyards of it in Beirut), and accepted a job as a physician in the U.K. 6 years before his passing.

I love my family history. I know very little of it, but it seems like I'm pretty much from everywhere.

We could have a summer house town there.

I support this statement.

My Uncle finally sends me an e-mail that I like: [link] NSFW! "Show Them To Me"

Rodney Carrington is really funny. Didn't expect to like his stuff, but he makes me laugh a lot.

My grandfather's in the hospital with really low sodium. He fell last night and couldn't get up, and they had to call 911. I talked to him this morning, and he sounds fine; he's just weak, and they don't know what the problem is. Please send that patented Buffista~ma Texas-ward.

Much ~ma P-C.

How is it in the British elections that the Liberal Democrats got about 60% of the votes of the Conservative party but has less than 1/5 of the seats, while the Labor party seems proportional with vote to seat ratio?

The British don't use proportional voting -- it's first-past-the-post, in each electoral district.

~ma to your grandad, P-C

Birthday felicitations, GC!

The British don't use proportional voting -- it's first-past-the-post, in each electoral district.

Ah, you wouldn't see that kind of disproportional representation here in the USA.

Health~ma to your grandfather, P-C.