BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults

Subject: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 11:08 PM

I don't think I should be criticized because one of my ancestors was Sam Andreas. I never even knew him.

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 11:23 PM

Was that Sam Andreas' fault?

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 11:38 PM

Yeah. He died, well, he was hanged, in 1874. Poor old great-great-great-great Uncle Sam. All them calves running around without a brand on them and all he wanted to was make sure they knew they were wanted, like Sam was.

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 02:05 AM

That is abysmal.

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 04:00 AM

I got a list of at least 50 real good reasons for attackin' you, Rap, strictly on yer own account. I see no reason for bringin' any of yer crazy ancestors into the picture.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 08:53 AM

There was this man, dressed in medieaval armour, about to throw his wallet into the San Andreas Rift.

...


He was "Dressed to kill" & "Generous to a fault".



Or the man with an asbestos canoe?

He was ready come Hell or high water!

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 10:32 AM

And my old Uncle Newt, back in Missouri. Newt Madrid. He had his faults, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 10:50 AM

I agree... Rap has many of his own well developed faults to pick on...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 06:29 PM

Huh! Rap thinks he's got it tough! One of my ex-husband's (and thus my son's) ancestors, Mary Dyer, was hung on the Boston Common during colonial times. The Puritans didn't like her trying to spread her Quaker beliefs. They kept kicking her out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but she kept coming back and preaching. The powers-that-were decided to silence her forever. They'd be surprised to know that there is now a statue of her on the grounds of the Massachusetts State House. Here's a photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/489050634/

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 08:49 PM

She don't look all that bad but they hung her? Puritans are nasty.

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 11:05 PM

My ancestors didn't hang anybody, but some of them dangled.

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 12:36 AM

Shane's "fambly" is from Dangle. Dangle, Ireland.

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 12:04 PM

Spent their "adult" years dancing on air, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 12:42 PM

Yes, quite a few of them did, come to think of it.