BS: You were born where?

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 01:54 PM

1984!! you're a firekitten not a cat.

Jock

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Firecat
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 04:23 PM

OK, I'm gonna be REALLY specific here. I was born in Doncaster Royal Infirmary, South Yorkshire, England, at 10:08pm on Thursday January 5, 1984.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: John Kidder
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 04:22 AM

Kendall:

I was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. My father was Kendall Kidder, born in Mogollon, New Mexico, in 1919, from a line started by James Ensign Kidder in 1633 or 1634 in what became Cambridge, Mass. My son is named Kendall Kidder - somewhere way back there our folks knew each other.

All these connections remind me of what Kurt Vonnegut called "granfallons" - meaningless associations used by strangers to make meaningless bonds. Vonnegut wrote about two people meeting each other on an airplane, discovering that they were both from Indiana "What?? Your're a Hoosier too?", and using this as a pretext to fall into conversation.

John Kidder

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: CamiSu
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 01:42 AM

La Jolla, California, but that wasn't my fault, according to my father. Navy hospital (Balboa park?)

My kids were all born in living rooms. Joshua in his grandmother's house in Larimer county Colorado. Jessica in the trailer a hundred yards down river. And Benjamin, in our stone house in Fairlee, Vermont. At least two of them will have places to visit to say "I was born there."

Steve & Kat--of course I know where Oak Creek is!

CamiSu

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Gareth
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 07:02 PM

Barry Finn

Which Boston ?

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: The Walrus
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 05:20 PM

Battersea, London, or more fully
28 Shillington Street,
Battersea
London SW 11
alternately, the parish of Christ's Church, Battersea in the county of Surrey - depending how old your map is.

Most of my Mother's family married (very) locally, my maternal grandfather literally married the girl next door - my mother married a "foreigner" - he came from the next borough (all of a mile and bit away)

Parochial? My lot?.....

Regards

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Big Tim
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 04:02 PM

County Donegal, Ireland. Neither proud nor ashamed of the fact but definitely stuck with it. It's led me in the general direction of some great music.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Walking Eagle
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 10:19 AM

I'll get this right now. West - By God - Virginia, under a Questioning Star. Spent early days near a bunch of coal camps listening to coal miners talk union and politics and pickin' and grinnin' and singin' and such. Weathered the We'll Save the Hillbillies from Themselves government programs of the 60's and 70's. Moved to the more civilized city of Charleston WV. For the better schools. Later got my college degree in Athens, OH. Lived a bit in FL., NY., and now in PA. State of my fathers' birth.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Walking Eagle
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 10:11 AM

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Gervase
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 09:20 AM

Lansing? I had a girlfriend from Lansing and spent Christmas 1989 there (Brr! - it was cold)
She was a terrific singer - operatic rather than folk - and, last I heard, was principal soprano in the Leipzig State Opera. Her dad was a local judge, name of Rodenberg, and a lovely guy.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: ScottyG
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 09:17 AM

Physically, I was born in Owosso, Shiawassee County, Michigan. My parents moved to Lansing when I was 16 months old. There I stayed until I left to join the Navy. A short time later, I found the birthplace of my soul. I could not shake the feeling that I had been there before. It was all so familiar and comfortable. That was Scotland. Though I'm proud to be an American, I can't help but feel the tug to go back to the land of my ancestors. If I had half a chance, that's where I'd be right now.

ScottyG

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Lucius
Date: 31 Jul 01 - 01:31 AM

Penn Yan, New York, and I'm damn glad that my ancestors left England to come to America. No better place to be born.

Lucius

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Spud Murphy
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 07:19 PM

In the fallow detritus of a rotting log high on the slopes of the great Sierra Nevadas but my oldest daughter was born at Nick & Muriel's place in Glen Allen, Alaska

Spud

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Hawker
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 06:43 PM

Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,torirain
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 05:51 PM

PHILADELPHIA

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: rea
Date: 30 Jul 01 - 01:51 PM

born in Greenville NC (hello to Matt R), though I grew up in durham nc, and now live in Falls Church VA (also known as the greater DC area) but go to school in new york state. and while one grandmother was born and riased in a tiny waustrian village, my mother's family are all scoth-irich-enlgish from east tennessee, and my father's family alsi fought with william the conqueror and had a pair of brothers come over in the 1600s -- mebbe my ancestors and kendalls were neighbors.

in the south, there's the distinction between where you're /from/ (where you were born or where your 'people' -- family-- are) and where you live (your address).

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 11:31 PM

Boston born & Boston bred. Barry

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: mmm1a
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 11:18 PM

I was born in beautiful downtown Burbank (Ca). People always think I am joking when I tell them that, but thats what it says on my birth certificate. ok it doesn't say beautiful downtown but it does say Burbank.

mmm

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 09:59 PM

Katlaughing- thanks. My mom is going to get a kick out of knowing someone else has heard of Oak Creek.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: jaze
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 08:10 PM

St. Mary's Hospital, Philadelphia,Pa.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Gareth
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 03:59 PM

Please disregard that bit of finger trouble.

Its not difficult to be more British than the British Royal fammilly.

Trace the ancestry, mainly German with touches of Scandanavian. Then we have Liz marying Phil the Greek I ask you ????

Myself, Born Bynmynach Ave. Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Caerphilly - try pronouncing that in a hurry, and after a pint or 4.

Interestingly One Granfather born in Philladelphia, One Grandmother born Cork Ireland, other set of Grandparents born South Wales. - Sort that lot out !!!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Gareth - sorry doing my weekly clear out.
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 03:49 PM

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 03:04 PM

RangerSteve, my sister used to live in Oak Creek and still lives in the area, in Colorado. Fancy that, someone knowing of Oak Creek, here on the Mudcat! My great-grandparents were ranchers in Western Colorado, too.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Dunc
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 01:43 PM

I was born in a hospital bed in the maternity room of the Lady Home Cottage Hospital in the village of Douglas,in the shadow of the magnificent Tinto Hill, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
To the best of my knowledge, Lady Home was the wife, mother or some other female relation of Sir Alex Douglas Home ex British Prime Minister.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Pelrad
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 01:17 PM

I was born in Provincetown, Mass. This was not something I admitted readily while growing up because my classmates only knew the town as "that place with all the crazy gay people." It was a different place when my mom lived there during the sixties, full of artists. We were year-rounders.

I think Americans are fascinated with where our families came from and when, because we're a nation of newcomers.

That said, on one side of my family I am descended from Gov William Bradford, with ancestors from Wales, England and Scotland. One set of great-grandparents on the other side came over from Sweden, another set came from France, and into the mix was tossed my Abnaki great-grandfather.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 12:57 PM

I was born as a very young child in a town with a population of 150 people. This figure had remained the same for the last 70 years, cos every time a baby was born somebody left town. Seriously though; Rotten Row Maternity Hospital Glasgow, and it was called that long before I was born there!

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 10:57 AM

Hey Challis - I'm O Rhesus neg too!!! I have Roman teeth in Saxon jaw (big teeth, small jaw, lots of overlaps) and my second toe is shorter than my big toe..... what group am I in then??

I remember Portwey Hospital - my father was there when he broke his leg. I was about 3 at the time, but remember sitting with him in the garden because I was considered too young to go in the hospital....

As for me, I was born at 10 Cocklands, Charminster, Dorchester. It has lime green drainpipes now. Mother was so annoyed, I was born at lunch time, when my grandfather was busy and couldn't come and transport my mother to Abbotsbury. I was the first one in the family since 1814 to have been born out of the village. Father and sister were making a cake downstairs, so every so often this voice would call up 'how much sugar dear?' as my mother lay in labour...... Just in time for lunch I appeared and apparently the cake wasn't too bad either.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 10:32 AM

Where you were born is not the end of what makes you you.

I work with a woman who was born in the US. Her parents are both Indians born in India. She has been *very obviously* effected by this. Her taste in food, the men she will date, the music she listens to all has a flavour of her heritage.

I am Irish and Scots-Irish by decent. My parents, though not from Ireland or Scotland themselves, still carried some of the cultures of their heritage with them as handed down to them through their parents, and so on and so on.

Keep in mind too that the USA is in its infancy still (culturally speaking) as compared to many other countries. We have but a few short centuries of history, and most of our *unique* "culture" is based on pretty flimsy stuff, with the exception of things like the works of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, etc. I am personally not willing to allow hotdogs, Hollywood, baseball, and McDonalds be the banners under which I allow myself to be represented. We are *all* from someplace else here, unless you're a native american.

Why would someones embracing of the cultures that helped create who they are threaten you so?

I love my roots, and am proud of them. I am still not willing to eat haggis though ;D

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 09:16 AM

Brooklyn, NY. I grew up in Hicksville, Long Island, NY. (really, the town is called Hicksville). My father grew up in Brooklyn, but was born in Merida, Mexico. His family came here in 1922, when he was six. As far as I know, they quit speaking Spanish. For some reason, people with Spanish names are expected to speak Spanish forever. Eighty years is a long time to hang on to a culture, especially when you don't live in that country. My mother is from Colorado, Oak Creek near Steamboat Springs. Her family also lived in Lamar and Denver. My parents met during WWII when my dad was stationed in Denver. They lived in McAllen, TX before coming back to New York. My mom's father was from Arkansas and later moved to Oklahoma. Her mother was from Missouri before moving to Colorado. She was a school teacher in Pocatello, Idaho and he was a cowboy when they met. They later turned to sheep ranching when they moved back to CO. Before Missouri, my grandmothers family had lived in Kentucky. An early ancester was given land there as payment for defending the fort at Wheeling during the French and Indian War. My ancestors' nationalities are Mexican, Scottish, Dutch, Mayan and Cherokee. I'm one of the few people I know in this country that gives his nationality as American. With family in this country for over 200 years, I don't see why not.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Oversoul
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 05:10 AM

I can look out a window on the second floor of my home and see the building where I was born in 48 years ago. I had a broken leg repaired there in 1987. Carpal tunnel and ulnar tranposition surgery in 1998. What else can I say? South Bend, Indiana.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 04:09 AM

refresh (for the new people)

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 10:01 AM

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, in some hospital, almost 27 years ago. But I consider Columbia Heights, just north of Mpls, to be my "home town," though I haven't lived there in years and don't really care for the locals. (other than my family, of course:)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Tom
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 08:44 AM

Proudly born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Also home of Gibson Guitars who have since, sadly moved to other pastures. Although so have I, now in Connecticut. Ivan B and John P - Howdy! Tom

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 04:49 AM

So, Patrish ... you're related to Swansea? What does that make you to Michael, then?

Me: Port Colborne, Ontario at PC General, Snake Bite Treatment Centre for the EN-tire NIag'ra PENninusla. Also hot-spot for rum-running in th' good ol' days. Born on the night the Canada geese were flying over, headed south.

sian

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 02:04 AM

funny spaw...i always figgered you were found in a can of vegemite....

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 01:53 AM

I was near my mother, or at least that's what I was told. Actually, I have no memory of it at all.

Dumb answer to complete dumbass who started this thread. I'm a friggin' citizen of the world and secondly the United States. What's your problem in people wanting to preserve some heritage? In my case, I am second generation on one side and 14th or 15th or something on the other. What I am is an American, USA variety. What I am proudest of is that to my knowledge I am totally unrelated to you.

Interesting thread group, I just hate the kind of crap that was dumped by the clown who started this. Sorry, didn't mean to demean clowns.......this character proves that humans can actually mate with yaks.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 06 Jun 01 - 01:32 AM

John P & Don Frith,
You seem to believe that I'm a Motie.
Don't you know there's a blockade?
On the first hand, Earthlings could have destroyed Mote Prime; on the second hand, they could have let Moties loose in the galaxy (which would have been a Crazy Eddie thing to do); on the gripping hand they could blockade.
Of course,if the Moties ever got through the blockade.....
Me, a Motie? Of course not. If you don't believe me, ask my fyunch-click!

Regards, Eddie
(Actually born in the Co. Tipperary, but brought up in Cork, and therefore a "Cute Cork Hoor" rather than a "Stonethrower")

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 06:34 PM

John; surely you mean Ull Derly Merl?
Don't forget Fern Curls (phone calls)

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: mytoycar
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 03:34 PM

I was born under a wondering star

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: chip a
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 03:32 PM

But I dearly love these mountains!

Chip again

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: chip a
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 03:23 PM

Scituate Mass. My mom's fam came from England to Scituate in 1639. My dad came from Hartlepool in 1927. I lived on the near end of my thumb for quite a few years, then landed in the Ga. mountains. Been here 29 years now. I still miss the coast after all this time and I still think of myself as a yankee.

Chip A.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 03:22 PM

Thanks for the elp, John!

Most Umbelly

LEJ

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,Willa
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 03:03 PM

Certainly a lot of Kingston Upon Hull Folks here; I'm one too.Glad to see you give it its correct title, Cobble.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Dorrie
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 02:59 PM

oi johninhull we dont all talk like that in hull we pronounce our h's and are proud of it!

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: vindelis
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 02:52 PM

I was born in an ex-workhouse called Portwey Hospital. it closed in the early nineties, I think, and is now a block of flats owned by a housing association. Fortunately I came home to the right side of Ferry Bridge and have been on Portland ever since.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 02:49 PM

Lonesome E, Ull is a little fising village,on the east coast of England :-)
We dont pronounce the first H here! eg
Ellow arm from ull = Hellow I am from Hull
Ezzle rerd =Hessle Road
Ull Daily Mail =The local newspaper
Radio Umbersard =The local radio station
Umbrol =The local paint factory (on Edon Road)
We also have the Umber Bridge!

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 02:27 PM

I was born in a country that no longer exists. Tabor Czechoslovakia, a medieval town on which attention was briefly focused in 1420. during the Hussite revolution, a precursor to the Protestant reformation and I believe the one of the first in a line of revolutions.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Dorrie
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 02:15 PM

this msg is from Dorries Sister!

hiya

i was also born in a hospital in hull, but i told my boyfriend that i was born in a treehouse in a field and he believed me for ages! when i said i wasnt he said knowing my parents it was believable, as he thinks they are old hippies, well when he first ever met my dad he had his 'dont panic i'm organic" tshirt on with socks and sandals! typical folkie!

lots of love

holly x x

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 01:23 PM

where the 'ell is 'ull?

Louisville Kentucky, Baptist Hospital to be exact.

Subject: RE: BS: You were born where?
From: BobP
Date: 05 Jun 01 - 11:38 AM

Evanston, Illinois

Home of the Women's Christian Temperance Union

Probably not one of their favorite sons ha, ha, ha . . .

I noticed quite a few here from non-temperate climates and supposed, for a moment, that the reason for their interest in a non-violent activity stems from having to spend so much time keeping cool or warm.

I recall that most of the world's battlefields were very pleasant places, before the shooting began.

Do y'spose I'm on t'sumptn here?