OlFuzzyBastard
Knackwurst
  
   
    
  
Since: 28.4.02
From: Pittsburgh, PA
Since last post: 53 days
Last activity: 5 days
| AIM: |  |
| | |
|  #1 Posted on 28.11.02 1824.34 | Wasn't sure if I should post this here or in Random, but I think you folks would appriciate the bitter irony involved much moreso than the average Wiener.
So, I'm talking to my grandfather during Thanksgiving dinner, and discover a fairly-distant relation that makes my blood run cold. (No, not Glacier.). It seems, and I'm not sure if I've got all the facts right here, but my grandfather's aunt's nephew (on her other side) is former Pennsylvania governer and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge.
I tried showering, but the dirt just won't come off.
"Of course the people don't want war ...but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship ... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
----------Hermann Goering, one of the original Nazis at his Nuremberg trial in 1946| Promote this thread! |           | Brian P. Dermody
Liverwurst
Moderator
 
Since: 20.9.02
From: New York, NY
Since last post: 421 days
Last activity: 1 day
| AIM: |  |
| | | Y!: |  |
|
| #2 Posted on 28.11.02 2151.28 |
If it makes you feel any better, I also have a cousin who's a spooky reactionary xenophobe.
(long pause)
Okay, I didn't think that would help...
Modern Humorist | Freeway
Scrapple
Since: 3.1.02
From: Calgary
Since last post: 221 days
Last activity: 44 days
| AIM: |  |
| | |
|  #3 Posted on 28.11.02 2238.02 | My second cousin is the bassist for Linkin Park.
KILL ME NOW.
Flames: 6-10-3-3
Montreal Alouettes; Grey Cup Champions
Movie Of the Week: Solaris
| Brian P. Dermody
Liverwurst
Moderator
Since: 20.9.02
From: New York, NY
Since last post: 421 days
Last activity: 1 day
| AIM: | |
| | | Y!: | |
|
| #4 Posted on 29.11.02 0256.17 |
The kid my buddies used to beat up in elementary and middle schools became the lead singer for Tantric. Keep in mind my buddies are all dweebs who got shoved in quite a few lockers themselves.
But what do you expect from the town that gave the world Nuno Bettencourt?
Modern Humorist | StampedeFan23
Morcilla
Since: 12.1.02
From: BC, Canada
Since last post: 1536 days
Last activity: 1072 days
| #5 Posted on 29.11.02 1135.23 | My second cousin is hockey player Larry Murphy. Ironically, I'm the most policital of all my family on both sides. My dirt never comes off.
Are you ready for Mahkan-mania to run wild all over you? | Bullitt
Shot in the dark
Since: 11.1.02
From: Houston
Since last post: 8 days
Last activity: 8 days
| #6 Posted on 29.11.02 1426.57 | I'm distantly related to Scott Bakula...no idea how, though.
"So, sorry sweetie...tootsie-pie...sugarbob...funky bunch."
www.Gordie.ca | cranlsn
Liverwurst
Since: 18.3.02
From: Sussex, WI
Since last post: 5 days
Last activity: 13 hours
| #7 Posted on 29.11.02 1837.11 |
I don't have any disturbing lineage to speak of...however I do share a birthday with Jimmy Carter. (Well...it's disturbing to me...)
8-3 OK...road games just suck!! We'll see how next week goes...
|
| TRG
Medisterpoelse
Since: 9.9.02
From: USA
Since last post: 3829 days
Last activity: 3829 days
| #8 Posted on 29.11.02 2148.59 | At least you don't have a radical neo-Nazi in your family
lineage.
Paul
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/unmaskingantiantifa.htm | drjayphd
Scrapple
Moderator
Since: 22.4.02
From: Connecticut
Since last post: 3 days
Last activity: 18 hours
| #9 Posted on 30.11.02 0140.16 | Some cousin/uncle/I have no idea of mine is a child psychologist/psychiatrist who's written some books and makes the Oprah-style talk show circuit every now and then. Not embarrassing, though. Could be worse... I could be related to Rob Nelson.
And as for birthdays, I share mine with Englebert Humperdink. Check and mate, cranlsn.
Today's Out-Of-Context Quote, Courtesy of Punkinhead:
"I'm gonna go dig up a date!" | OlFuzzyBastard
Knackwurst
Since: 28.4.02
From: Pittsburgh, PA
Since last post: 53 days
Last activity: 5 days
| AIM: | |
| | |
| #10 Posted on 30.11.02 1150.03 | Gilbert Gottfried is the biggest star born on my birthday - how sad is that? (My sister shares hers with Vince McMahon, though.)
"Of course the people don't want war ...but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship ... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
----------Hermann Goering, one of the original Nazis at his Nuremberg trial in 1946 | HrdCoreJoe
Potato korv
Since: 29.4.02
From: Jax, FL
Since last post: 542 days
Last activity: 542 days
| AIM: |  |
| | |
| #11 Posted on 30.11.02 1208.41 | Well you guys can't imagine how proud my family is of my aunt, who is a soft core porn star for Cinemax and Playboy. Always a "treat" to come home from work at night, see whats on tv, and find your aunt having sex with some guy on a piano. And it doesn't help a lick that everyone on my mom's side (including myself) has the same face and ever present Jewish nose. We can't escape our roots!
Treasure Planet kicked all kinds of ass. Do yourself a favor and check it out when it comes to a theater near you. | mountinman44
Sujuk
Since: 8.5.02
From: San Diego, CA
Since last post: 735 days
Last activity: 582 days
| | | Y!: |  |
|
| #12 Posted on 30.11.02 1315.33 | Is being related to Eric the Red disturbing? My mother traced our family back to him. Also related to the King of Norway (distant cousin).
"Ensign Kodos, set coordinates for the obscure, T-shirt producing planet of Earth. We are going to visit... MY DAUGHTER!" -- Kang | Jaguar
Knackwurst
Since: 23.1.02
From: Phoenix, AZ
Since last post: 598 days
Last activity: 598 days
| #13 Posted on 30.11.02 1601.18 | Doc Holladay.
'nuff said.
-Jag
With poison running through your veins, and death marching solemnly towards you, heroic acts become more of a necessity as you see your time dwindling.
Vanquishing your enemies, making amends to those you have wronged, and leaving words of love and kindness for those around you become second nature as your own mortality looms
However, true strength lies not in these last desperate acts, but in the actions of one who has to get out of bed the next day and face the consequences of doing that which you believe is right. | MoeGates
Andouille
Since: 6.1.02
From: Brooklyn, NY
Since last post: 4 days
Last activity: 15 hours
| #14 Posted on 1.12.02 2256.23 | I'm third cousins with Haley Eisenberg. About the wierdest moment of my life was when I was at my grandma's house to "meet mishpocha (essentially Yiddish for "some weird extended family that the Nazis didn't kill") for dinner" also, and having the Pepsi girl walk in.
Billy the Kid shares my birthday. Yess Haw!
This should probably be moved to Random.
Expressing myself EVERY day - but especially on July 22, 2002! | Grimis
Scrapple
Since: 11.7.02
From: MD
Since last post: 753 days
Last activity: 550 days
| #15 Posted on 2.12.02 0748.28 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | Know what's really distrubing? I'm part Plantagenant(sp?: Richard the Lionhearted, Edward I and III), part Windsor(current occupants of the throne, Churchill) and related to 14 U.S. presidents(including W).
Best part about it is that all but one of them was a Republican(unfortunately, that was FDR).
And finally, my first cousin six times removed was Galusha Grow, Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania and the first member of the GOP to serve as Speaker of the House(1861-1863).
LIBERAL- adj: abundant, incapable, self-serving, racist, confiscatory, welfare-loving, anti-liberty, scrooge-like, indulgent, lavish, unprincipled, closed-minded, philanthropic with other peoples money, big-government loving, selfish, uptight, unrealisitc, unenlightened, discriminatory, totalitarian, partial, strict, overpermissive, intolerant, biased, bigoted, prejudiced
-------Real-life experience | lmo911
Italian
Since: 2.1.02
From: A ways past Parts Unknown and to the left of Dudleyville
Since last post: 3018 days
Last activity: 767 days
| AIM: |  |
| | |
| #16 Posted on 2.12.02 0954.02 | Instant Rating: 4.06 | Yeah, slowly turning random...
I believe I'm related to Farrah Fawcett(or atleast one of Charlie's Angels) somehow. Don't know the exactly lineage, though. | astrobstrd
Bockwurst
Since: 13.3.02
From: Loveland, OH
Since last post: 2064 days
Last activity: 2032 days
| AIM: |  |
| | |
| #17 Posted on 2.12.02 1545.00 | I believe I'm related to Dwight Yoakam, because he is the only "Yoakam" I've seen outside my immediate family that spells it that way and not "Yocum" or "Yokam"
"All we are is meat."
-The Deftones | DMC
Liverwurst
Since: 8.1.02
From: Modesto, CA
Since last post: 2959 days
Last activity: 2953 days
| #18 Posted on 2.12.02 1818.16 | I BELIEVE (although I can't totally confirm) that my red-headed cousin was the "Wendy's girl" in the really old 80s commercials for Wendys, before Dave Thomas.
My sister's friend's brother use to play bass for Jewel...
and I once tried dating a lady who was apparently Diamond Dallas Page's agent/manager. Can't confirm that either.
Now how pathetic is all THAT.
DMC
"Well I'm here to tell ya, that as you go out into the world you're gonna find, that you're not gonna amount to JACK...SQUAT!!!" -Matt Foley, motivational speaker |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
