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No one famous in mine, sadly, it’s just Norwegian fish picklers, Calvinist ministers, and Irish drunks all the way down. On my maternal grandfather’s side, the first of our name came to America in 1640 something so that’s a little cool in a WASPy way. Also some slave owners there, which is horrifying :/ E: My mom wanted to name me Georgia Celeste. It came to her in a dream.
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OwlFancier posted:Still quite happy to have just emerged from a hole in the ground with no knowledge of anybody in my family ever living or doing anything other than where I already live. Oh, I used to dream about a hole in the ground. I popped into existence, fully formed yet unaware of self, in a puddle in the middle of the road.
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Jul 28, 2021 15:45
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I’m a descendent of William Brewster, the religious leader of the Mayflower pilgrims. This makes me very distantly related to a ton of notable people, like Katherine Hepburn, Zachary Taylor (regarded as one of the worst presidents), and Seth Macfarlane. His kids were named Johnathan, Patience (who I’m descended from) Fear, Love, and Wrestling, which I mention because they are some primo old timey Puritan names.
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Jul 28, 2021 15:49
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Trabant posted:Oh, I used to dream about a hole in the ground. I popped into existence, fully formed yet unaware of self, in a puddle in the middle of the road.
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Jul 28, 2021 15:56
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RFC2324 posted:I read this as being related to four posts who died in asylums, and friend, that would have been some bad news for you imagine four posters on the edge of sanity
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Jul 28, 2021 16:01
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I'm 4 posts away from total madness! 3
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Jul 28, 2021 16:06
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Dr Christmas posted:His kids were named Johnathan, Patience, Fear, Love, and Wrestling Imagine this guy introducing his kids to an acquaintance. The first two names pass without much notice, then he hits you with Fear, and while you're still reeling from that (not even registering the relatively mundane choice of Love), his last kid is named what? 
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Jul 28, 2021 16:07
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Dr Christmas posted:I’m a descendent of William Brewster, the religious leader of the Mayflower pilgrims. This makes me very distantly related to a ton of notable people, like Katherine Hepburn, Zachary Taylor (regarded as one of the worst presidents), and Seth Macfarlane. TIL that Wrestling is a virtue.
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Jul 28, 2021 16:07
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OwlFancier posted:TIL that Wrestling is a virtue. I'm more partial to Bissonomy.
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Jul 28, 2021 16:14
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There's a difference between claiming ancestry from someone who was known to have kids and lived a thousand years ago and claiming to be descended from someone who was notable for not having any children at all. My wife's family had the "Indian princess" story going around for a while. Just before her grandmother died she found a letter one of her great aunts had sent her in probably the 40s that laid out that the ancestor was real and was native but was a "lady of the night" and not a princess, and their old money New England family had taken the baby in and raised it.
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Jul 28, 2021 16:14
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The guy who founded free market economic theory (after making his fortune buying up land for pennies from destitute families after the great london fire) was baptised Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon
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Jul 28, 2021 16:15
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I'm glad shapiro decided to get vaxxed, but referring to his children as small seems kinda redundant. My ancestors originally came from Ireland on one side and Scotland on the other and it's no wonder I hate myself.
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Jul 28, 2021 16:22
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I'm glad shapiro decided to get vaxxed, but referring to his children as small seems kinda redundant. Gonna be funny as poo poo when his daughter is towering over him and he's trying to threaten her boyfriend
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Jul 28, 2021 16:26
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Jul 28, 2021 16:30
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Just lol if you dont come from a long line of liars, cheats, and murderers. Can you even call yourself an American?
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Jul 28, 2021 16:33
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If you stop paying for a WoW account does it delete your characters or can you start up your subscription later and start where you left off? Because if it's the latter, just play something else for a few months.
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Jul 28, 2021 16:34
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Dr Christmas posted:I’m a descendent of William Brewster, the religious leader of the Mayflower pilgrims. This makes me very distantly related to a ton of notable people, like Katherine Hepburn, Zachary Taylor (regarded as one of the worst presidents), and Seth Macfarlane. I’m also related to Zachary Taylor (great great whatever grandfather or uncle or something) and also uh.. a bunch of southerners who were really wealthy before the 1860’s for reasons generally left undiscussed (you go to the family graveyard and there’s a bunch of curiously short headstones in the back with the words ‘Slave (surname)’ on them’.)
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Jul 28, 2021 16:34
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Just checked and all my ancestors are dead. E: oh, I forgot, in 1600 an ancestor of mine did nothing then died.
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Jul 28, 2021 16:42
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Cocaine Bear posted:Just checked and all my ancestors are dead. Your ancestors were very wise
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Jul 28, 2021 16:44
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endocriminologist posted:I’m related to like four poets who died in insane asylums and well, I’m glad I can barely write Ah, a Lovecraft?
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Jul 28, 2021 16:59
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Lol continuing to give Blizzard money while still complaining about every loving thing they do. Big "this restaurant messes up my order every time I come here, which is like 5 times a week" energy.
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Jul 28, 2021 17:34
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Hihohe posted:Just lol if you dont come from a long line of liars, cheats, and murderers. Can you even call yourself an American? I'm related to Ezra Ross, a 16 year old who banged Bathsheba Spooner, got her pregnant, murdered her husband with help from two other dudes, tried, convicted, and executed in 1778 with the whole lot (along with the pregnant Bathsheba).
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Jul 28, 2021 17:38
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah, in highschool I used to date a girl who claimed to be descended from William of Orange. A nerdy thing that annoys me: How often public figures say "I'm a descendant of X" when they mean "I'm a descendant of X's brother/cousin/great-aunt". Like, as far as we know or can ever know, there are no descendants of Abraham Lincoln, period end.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:14
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Jul 28, 2021 18:30
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I forgot, what part of the government is Simone Biles in charge of? Also, loving lol, public officials cancel poo poo all the time because they ain't feeling it. Trump skipped visiting a graveyard in France full of WW2 vets on the anniversary of Normandy because he was worried about his hair.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:40
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lolling thinking about the chinese delegations being all like 'it was so awkward, he just started crying and left' and then going home and somberly pressing the 'NUKE EVERYTHING' button
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Jul 28, 2021 18:41
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Jul 28, 2021 18:43
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Skwirl posted:I forgot, what part of the government is Simone Biles in charge of? https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1420365900285419520
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Jul 28, 2021 18:45
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Jul 28, 2021 20:31
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Samovar posted:When my brother and his wife were going to have their son, one of the names that was being proposed was Salvatore - when my brother was seeing what other folk thought if it, one of his co-workers (from Milan) was adamant that he shouldn't go for that name, cause everyone would think he was Sicilian. ugh yeah you wouldn't wish that on a child
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Jul 28, 2021 21:20
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Skwirl posted:If you stop paying for a WoW account does it delete your characters or can you start up your subscription later and start where you left off? It's the latter. I stopped playing WoW about 8-9 years ago, and if I started paying again then all my characters would be there exactly as I left them.
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Jul 28, 2021 22:30
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Soysaucebeast posted:It's the latter. I stopped playing WoW about 8-9 years ago, and if I started paying again then all my characters would be there exactly as I left them. The GMs might've changed your names so someone active can take them.
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Jul 28, 2021 23:01
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Post poste posted:The GMs might've changed your names so someone active can take them. Oh noooooooooooo! I better re-activate my account to keep XxSephirothxX active, strike be damned! I get your point but after that long it's a good bet I'm never going back. I'm old now, I ain't got time for that.
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Jul 28, 2021 23:13
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Soysaucebeast posted:It's the latter. I stopped playing WoW about 8-9 years ago, and if I started paying again then all my characters would be there exactly as I left them. Than play a different loving game for however long this takes?
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Jul 28, 2021 23:18
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Skwirl posted:Than play a different loving game for however long this takes? But I want to play WoW NOW!
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Jul 28, 2021 23:20
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Lotta fun thinks getting thought today https://twitter.com/LiadCohen/status/1420070453545259012?s=19
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Jul 28, 2021 23:33
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Splicer posted:Your own puddle? Luxury! I spawned four meters above ground level and had to share a puddle with three other surviving homunculi  And you try to tell that to young tadpeople today... And they don't believe you.
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Jul 29, 2021 00:39
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In regards to the famous ancestors, I don't think I have any. My family has kept records of their ancestors and I found out that my family owned slaves. A couple of Irish slaves.
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Jul 29, 2021 01:04
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My only famous ancestor is Charles Manson, on both sides of my family (long story)
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Jul 29, 2021 01:15
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OwlFancier posted:Only what I linked which states a jump in all categories of paranormal beliefs between 2016 and 2018 and the university apparently does a whole bunch of investigations on the subject of fear in society: Aye, cheers, gonna try to see if I can understand these.
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