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BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults

22 Feb 12 - 11:08 PM (#3311970)
Subject: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee

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


22 Feb 12 - 11:23 PM (#3311972)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Ebbie

Was that Sam Andreas' fault?


22 Feb 12 - 11:38 PM (#3311974)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee

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.


23 Feb 12 - 02:05 AM (#3311980)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Ebbie

That is abysmal.


23 Feb 12 - 04:00 AM (#3311999)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp

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


23 Feb 12 - 08:53 AM (#3312094)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Nigel Parsons

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!


23 Feb 12 - 10:32 AM (#3312140)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee

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


23 Feb 12 - 10:50 AM (#3312147)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Bobert

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

B~


24 Feb 12 - 06:29 PM (#3312961)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: ChanteyLass

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/


24 Feb 12 - 08:49 PM (#3313004)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: gnu

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


24 Feb 12 - 11:05 PM (#3313061)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee

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


25 Feb 12 - 12:36 AM (#3313088)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Little Hawk

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


25 Feb 12 - 12:04 PM (#3313246)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Rapparee

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


25 Feb 12 - 12:42 PM (#3313268)
Subject: RE: BS: Raparree attacked for ancestors' faults
From: Little Hawk

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