That's dreadful, ita.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Jul 01, 2010 4:16:46 pm PDT #10047 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
quester - Jul 01, 2010 4:44:47 pm PDT #10048 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Oy! on all the badness!
IOmeN, I had my second interview today. It included a spelling and proofreading test plus some design tasks. I also learned that a friend from my last temping gig also applied and now I am filled with trepidation. She is much younger and more recently in school than I.
It sucks to compete with friends for a job!
Still, I want and need it! If you guys could spare some job~ma and calm~ma, I would very much appreciate it!
Hil R. - Jul 01, 2010 4:45:03 pm PDT #10049 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
An email from ancestry.com tells me that 60% of Americans have "Revolutionary War roots." I'm not sure how they're defining that, but 60% seems really high to me. Anyone know where that number came from? (It could just be that my sample is skewed, but I remember a project in fifth grade where we had to interview an immigrant, and at least half the class interviewed a grandparent.)
Tom Scola - Jul 01, 2010 4:50:25 pm PDT #10050 of 30001
hwæt
60% seems really high to me.
If you go back in time long enough, everyone is related to everybody else.
brenda m - Jul 01, 2010 4:50:32 pm PDT #10051 of 30001
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
I suspect it's the definition of roots that's suspect. So to speak. I'm doubting it's direct ancestry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 01, 2010 4:51:08 pm PDT #10052 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
It doesn't sound off to me that the bulk of Americans have at least one ancestor who was here before the 1780s.
Jesse - Jul 01, 2010 4:52:43 pm PDT #10053 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had people in North America well before the Revolutionary War, but in Canada. Does that count?
Calli - Jul 01, 2010 4:53:58 pm PDT #10054 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That is awful, ita.
An email from ancestry.com tells me that 60% of Americans have "Revolutionary War roots."
Maybe? A lot of later immigrants may have married into earlier groups. My dad's family came over around 1900, but Mom's was here before the Revolutionary War. So 75% of my nuclear family (my sister, parents, and I) had RW roots.
In other news, I flew a plane today (Cherokee Warrior PA28). After we took off the instructor turned to me and said, "I don't really like flying all that much. You take her around for a while."
I said, "Sure. Just as long as you like landing." Then I got to wander for miles over the NC countryside. Sharon Harris Nuclear Plant is rather fetching from 3000 feet up.
Tom Scola - Jul 01, 2010 4:55:20 pm PDT #10055 of 30001
hwæt
You could have had as many as 128 Great Great Great... Grandparents alive in 1780, Jesse. Can you be sure that none of them were in America?
tommyrot - Jul 01, 2010 4:57:25 pm PDT #10056 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ita, that's awful.
I flew a plane today (Cherokee Warrior PA28).
Go you!