Hil's genealogy-fu is amazing!
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Jessica - Sep 29, 2013 1:53:02 pm PDT #7237 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
billytea - Sep 29, 2013 1:54:34 pm PDT #7238 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BTW definitely the right William Lipow. And now that I know his original name was Welwel Lipowitz , maybe I can find out the details about the family legend of his killing a Cossack.
That was amazing.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:01:35 pm PDT #7239 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Anyone else have genealogy queries? I have fun with this stuff -- I like solving puzzles.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2013 2:04:51 pm PDT #7240 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you do British questions, Hil? A part of the family believes we are related to the Barrett Brownings but I don't think they have any negro issue.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:06:24 pm PDT #7241 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Do you do British questions, Hil? A part of the family believes we are related to the Barrett Brownings but I don't think they have any negro issue.
I can give it a try. A lot of British records are online, and generally indexed pretty well.
Anne W. - Sep 29, 2013 2:08:02 pm PDT #7242 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Do you know what kind of cat he is?
He's a shelter kitty and was listed as "stray," so technically it's impossible to say. That said, there are a lot of things about his general appearance, coat*, and behavior that make me suspect he's got a fair amount of Turkish Angora in him.
* his coat is silky, he doesn't seem to have a downy undercoat, and he sheds surprisingly little for such a fluffy guy.
Zenkitty - Sep 29, 2013 2:09:03 pm PDT #7243 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Hil, if you're serious... Malcolm Cornforth emigrated to the US from England in 1963, and I'd really like to know who/where he was before he came here. Cornforth seems to be an unusual name. He was almost certainly my biological father. All I know about him is, he was an engineer of some type, he liked to race cars, and he was married to a woman named Shirley.
Sheryl - Sep 29, 2013 2:09:04 pm PDT #7244 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Went to the Baltimore Book Festival. Saw some writers I know on panels. Didn't buy any books. (Too many of the used book sellers had the books in sections by type, but otherwise all haphazard. I know I'm being anal about this, but put the books in alphabetical order, dammit!)
Dana - Sep 29, 2013 2:11:41 pm PDT #7245 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I feel like shit and have managed to convince myself that I either have the flu or West Nile.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:16:48 pm PDT #7246 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, if you're serious... Malcolm Cornforth emigrated to the US from England in 1963, and I'd really like to know who/where he was before he came here. Cornforth seems to be an unusual name. He was almost certainly my biological father. All I know about him is, he was an engineer of some type, he liked to race cars, and he was married to a woman named Shirley.
There isn't that much information available online from after the 1940s or so, because of privacy concerns. I checked a database of births in England, and found people named Malcolm Cornforth born in 1931, 1943, 1944, and 1954. All of them born in places that end in -shire, if that means anything.