tell us aboutYOURSELF--maybe s strange place you have been or some famous person you have met or a really freaky hobby or unusual talent. Maybe you have a far-out job? Are you related to someone famopus (or infamous?) Do you have an uncle arrested as a horse thief or cattle rustler? A mother who was a Go-Go Dancer? Maybe you collect purple plastic shoes with 4 inch heels? Have you been married 7 or 8 times?
You can tell it has been a slow news day here in North Georgia. but I thought it might be fun while we are waiting to go camping to see what wild things people here are willing to share about themselves.
OK, I'll get things rolling: I have just finished a welding course at our local vo-tech school. (And I LOVE it! Painted: "Born To Weld" on the back of my welding jacket and am the proud owner of a $200 Miller automatic darkening hood. :S )
Well this is nothing to be proud of, but my cousin has made the local news and local papers this past week. They arrested about six people in the house for operating a meth lab, and arrested her for misdemeanor child abuse for the child living in the house where the lab was.
I bet my uncle and aunt are turning over in their grave, because it was their house she lives in now.
I am one eyed, one armed flying purple people eater. :J
I've had 6 "brushes" with death: nearly drowned twice-once as a child and once as an adult, had gangrene in a foot but it cleared up, have fallen down the stairs in a house, was walking in a parking lot and got hit by a car backing out of a parking space which knocked me away from it and onto the pavement, went into anapholytic shock once. Let's see, I have "native" ancestors, also kin to Napoleon (guess I would call him infamous!) and to the famous master potter Ben Owen III of NC, and one of my other cousins Jeff Smith was a star on Hee Haw (don't laugh.) My half brother is a photographer for the News & Observer and was assigned to cover John Edwards everywhere on the campaign trail and also has done work for the Associated Press. I spend a lot of time with the stars of the Grand Ole Opry at Bluegrass festivals. I don't know if any of this is weird or unusual, though. ;) :D :rolleyes: :cool: :J
Well, Nancy, those little flirtations with death sure sound unusual to me! And the other stuff is certainly not garden-variety information either. Good post.:)
come to think of it, I can add something a bit wild When I was a little kid growing up in the wilds of western Jersey, the lady who lived across the garden from us was the mistress of an important mob member. He was in charge of the Fulton fish wharf rackets and spent weekends with his girlfriend and was very cordial with her friends and neighbors--always brought us wonderful fresh fish, seafoods (lobsters) and OHHH what wonderful fresh flounder. Fried flounder roe is just spectacular!
He always arrived in a chauffered Caddy, I remember him as a very pleasant and kind man and at Christmas time he brought bottles of licquer for the adults and always had presents for the kids in the neighborhood. (We called him "Uncle Frank") His mistress told my mother that before we met him, he had spent time
in The Tombs for putting out the eye of a "business rival" with a lighted cigar.
This is juicy ! here it goes !
I saw the tunnel and the light at the end of the tunnel; and I was going so fast towards the light ! Woke up crying of course (I was around 9 or 10)! I just had a concussion which lasted 3 minutes and (by chance a nearby doctor) said it was a miracle that I woke up after being in a concussion that long. Had another one (out 15 minutes) just before graduating from university, I still feel the effects of that one though, my thinking sometimes gets all cloudy and I can't think straight.
During the high terrorism years of Turkey my brother was arrested for killing a known terrorist, he was acquited and re-arrested after 5 years as the case was appealed unknown to our lawyer. I had to start working right after graduating from university to pay off the house we were living in as he had purchased it and was paying for. (See, families live together in Turkey, till one marries and moves away). This route took me to Saudi Arabia to make more money, and my dreams of being a professor (Phd and all) in my profession went down the drain.
Oh the weirdest of all, I distribute newspapers :J :J Went to university for 5 years to be able to do that :W
I can write with my toes. Print as well as cursive. Left foot as well as right foot.
Are you serious ????? Wooow ! I never heard that ! You are talented lady !
Quote from: MommaMiaI can write with my toes. Print as well as cursive. Left foot as well as right foot.
Quote from: birolAre you serious ????? Wooow ! I never heard that ! You are talented lady !
Yup... seriously!
The only thing I can come up with easily is.... Years ago there was a TV celeb (at least in our area) named the "COOL GHOUL" (wore heavy make-up). He has a band called the Grave Robbers... I personally knew a band member and was invited to a show that they were doing. This guy came up to me and was asking me about the group and the "Cool Ghoul"... and me (OPEN MOUTH AND INSERT FOOT) ... not liking ghoulish things, proceeded to talk how I hated the guy and thought about how stupid I really thought he was. A little while later the band member I knew came over and asked what we were talking about and I proceeded to tell him. He then informed me that the guy I was talking to was the "COOL GHOUL". Boy was I embarassed although I did share my actual feelings.
RIP Dick VonHane aka "Cool Ghoul" 2004
Hmmm...famous people? Well, I have a cousin who's a young movie and TV star! If any of you have kids that watch Lizzie McGuire on Disney/ABC, the young actor (Jake Thomas) that plays Matt McGuire is my cousin. (His dad is my first cousin, so I guess Jake is my first cousin once removed.) If you haven't seen Lizzie McGuire, Jake was also in Steven Speilberg's A.I. (he played the real boy), and in The Cell with Jennifer Lopez (he played the serial killer as a little boy). Just recently, he was in a TV movie with Randy Quaid & Ed Asner, National Lampoon's "Cousin Eddie's Christmas Vacation".
For any of you that are Civil Way buffs, my great-great-great-grandfather is somewhat famous (at least around the East Tennessee area). He was Captain Dan Ellis and he was a Union scout. He would guide Union soldiers who escaped from Confederate prisons back across the front lines into Union territory. He wrote a book about his experiences called "Thrilling Adventures."
For NASCAR fans, I know Matt Kenseth's spotter (Mike Calinoff)...had dinner with him and his fiance at their home in Charlotte once. And at the Coca-Cola 600 in 2000 when Matt won his first race, Mike had breakfast with us at our campsite that morning. He parked his truck there and I drove him to the track. He didn't get back to camp that night till about 2am because they were so busy celebrating Matt's win!
I went to college with Glenn Close. However, I don't know that I ever met her, and didn't realize I went to college with her till after I graduated and she became famous! LOL!! (I graduated from William & Mary in 1972; she graduated in 1974.) Had I only known.... :rolleyes:
My hometown has become a little famous. Big Stone Gap is the setting of the three best-selling novels (the first one was titled "Big Stone Gap") by Adriana Trigiani. They're supposed to be making the first one into a movie and plan to film most of it right here in town. Don't really know Adri, although I knew her parents.
Don't think I have any unusual abilities. I can't write with my toes. But they are pretty long and I can pick things up with them. :J I usually score in the genius range on IQ tests, but I manage to keep my intelligence well concealed most of the time. :p :rolleyes: :J
Well lets see. I'm a decendent of the King of France in the late 1600's. The first born of each family is considered a prince. So I guess I'm Prince Starcraft Dad.:D Now if I can only find my castle.
Plus Josh Groban is my nephew. But we really don't let that one get out to much. You wouldn't believe how many times I have been asked about autographed CDs.:eek:
Quote from: MommaMiaI can write with my toes. Print as well as cursive. Left foot as well as right foot.
Cindy, I know that if someone can write with both hands, they are called Ambidextrous. But, do they have an official word for someone who can write with both FEET?
Speaking of writing, when young I had allegies that caused me to be "Dermagraphic." (i.e. if someone "wrote" on my skin it would appear as a raised red line.). Growing up in South Florida, my friends and I were at the beach a lot and people used to fight over getting to write their names on my back. (It was sort of like having a temporary tatooo :J )
Well I guess I qualify for the cool job category. I work for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center. I've worked on the Space Shuttle, Atlas/Centaur, Titan/Centaur, Scout, and Delta launch vehicle programs. I also worked in the Payloads division for 9 years. I'm currently in the Biomedical Engineering office. We are developing new technologies, such as a Supercritical Breathing System. It's a cryogenic air mix under pressure. Provides 2 hours of breathing air, and a cooling suit, versus a Scott Air Pack that's currently used, which only provides 20 minutes, and no cooling. The new pack operates at a lower pressure, and has about the same weight. A big plus for firefighters, and those wearing environmental clean up suits, having to deal with toxic spills, or terrorist biological agents.
I've met a number of astronauts and actors at the Space Center (Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, etc.). I've also stood very close to Prince Charles, and the Queen of England. Honestly, they don't impress me much. If I had a chance of having lunch with one of them, or one of you, they'd have to take a raincheck. ;)
I'm 1/16 Cherokee Indian, but you wouldn't know it by looking at me.
We adopted two wonderful sons a little over a year ago.
I'm one of the lucky people that can fix most anything. A skill I learned from my father, one I'm now teaching to our rugrats.
I was a Military brat the first half of my life. Basically moved every 3 years. Lived over much of the USA, England, and in the Philippines.
I've always been about 80% ambidextrous. I can easily bat left or right handed, etc. I can write with my left hand, but it's slow... which is why I didn't give myself top marks.
I played rough as a kid. I've broken more than 10 bones. Stopped counting after that.
I have more hobbies and toys, than I have time. :(
Well let's see, famous people....
I'm a direct decendent of Capt John Parker, who was in charge of the minute men at Lexington Green on that fateful morning a couple hundred years ago!
I'm also a partial decendent of an Iriquios Indian Chief (have no idea what the name is), but married into the Bedouin family in Canada...
I personally know (former) Winston Cup car owner Joe Falk, we're on a first name basis including his son Jeff and wife Shirley, and have met his drivers (at the time) Kevin Lepage and Andy Hillenburg (I was employed by one of his brothers, the other brother was my boss). I've also met Ricky Rudd's dad. I also sat in some grandstand seats many years ago at Langley Speedway, sat next to Mr. & Mrs. Bodine (Geoff, Todd & Brett's parents....they are very nice, friendly people)
I was once working for a tow company operating out of a Texaco Station on Battlefield Blvd when a huge MH pulled up to the full serve pumps, out stepped James Doohan (Mr. Scott from the original Star Trek TV series), he was handing out "Beam me up Scotty" business cards, and I still have mine!
Close calls: I once nearly became lightning fodder! About 12 years ago I was operating a tow truck (same one mentioned above) and was picking up a car at the Hampton Inn parking lot, I was outside the truck and had my hand on the controls when all of a sudden every single hair on my entire body stood on end, I could feel the electrical energy rushing through my body. This lasted all of a split second or so, and them KA-BOOOOM!!! The lightning found something nearby that was taller (thankfully)...
As for myself, I guess my greatest claim to fame is my racing website, I'm also a writer for it, and apparently well known throughout the NASCAR circuit. All the big teams have checked my site out on numerous occassions. I've swapped info via email with Jayski numerous times. And used to get email from Morgan Shepherd, and was once threatened with a law suite by NAPA Auto Parts and Dale Earnhardt Inc once over a story I wrote. They demanded a restraction, so instead I named my source for the story, after that they couldn't do a thing to me because it was the truth!!!
Ok here goes... my 5th great grandfather was a king in poland, he was then moved to Nancy France where there is a statue of him to this day. Also a Hugh "castle", that I would love to visit on day..King Stanislas was his name.
He died when he fell into a chimney at the estate!!
http://www.cr-lorraine.fr/english_version/guide/guide.htm
Cool! I just found out something neat about our family. We have five "Saints" (legal thanks to the Catholic church) in our family. I also found out DH and I are related! (Yeah it's wierd - and not only by marriage! :D ) His Great grandmother and mine were sisters. Pretty cool!
I was once married to a guy named Dave. We got divorced and then both remarried later. He
Wow--this is AMAZING! No, I dont mean the offbeat things people have written in this thread, but the fact that only about a dozen members of this board have had unusual life experiences or have weird family members. :J
I'd have guessed there were many more among us who have led unpredictable lives in some way or another. (Of course, the alternative explanation is that those NOT saying anything actually have secrets TOO DARK TO SHARE! Now THAT leads to some interesting speculation...) (Hmmm---I guess Topcat fits into this latter category :Z )
I went to school with Paul Teutel Jr. from American Chopper. We were never in the same circle but he was a nice guy. DH gave me strep throat in kindergarten from kissing me on the school bus. Eddie Cahill (Rachels assistant on Friends and the goalie in the movie Miracle)is the nephew of Bridgies godmother I guess I can say I knew him before he got famous. I dislocated my kneecap reaching into the trunk of my car and I broke my ankle walking in the front yard. I gave birth to a 9 1/2 lb. baby with only 20 minutes of labor and 1 push. DH just fixed the heat in Steve Buschemi's summerhouse and was invited to stop by in the summer for a pool party. The house used to belong to Harvey Keitel. Robert Dinero owns the house and property behind DH's office but he hasn't met him yet.
Wow I'm more interesting than I thought :>}
This is a great thread! Ok let's see when I was little I use to tell kids my mom and uncle were famous...cause my Uncles name was Ed Sullivan and my mom was Peggy Fleming!!! I have a weird sense of intuition, I often wind up calling my best friend just as she is calling me and we both get a busy signal!!!!! I've also dreamed things that actually occur a couple of days later...unfortunately scary stuff like a plane accident, etc.
Our house has the ghost of a child in it. My husband and I when we first moved in use to hear "mommy" called out or right beside our ears except our DD was only 3 and DS an infant. DD was always within eyesight and DS couldn't talk yet. Our house is 110 years old so not sure what the deal is with a young child perhaps taking ill and dying in the house, except when we broke through a wall to remodel we found an old cabinet hidden and my husband thought we had struck gold!!! Was convinced money was hidden in it but when he pulled things out of it we found very old medicine bottles the kinds with the small brown bottles with corks in it. One of them still had these purplish pills in it and was marked poison!!!! Another that was apparently used for croup...the directions on it were unbelieveable it said to use as a poultice first and then if needed to mix in water and drink, etc. Found another old bottle that was used to hold....leaches!! Yuck!! These were all turn of the century bottles. Anyway we hope that some poor little one wasn't sick and died here...but one night I was lying in bed and right next to my ear I heard "mommy" I jumped a mile thinking it our then toddler but turned my head to see no one there. Freaked me out. One day I decided to have a talk with our little guest because one afternoon we watched our then 3 yr. old DD walk into our den and it literally looked like someone had shoved her she fell forward so hard for no apparent reason. I was afraid our little houseguest was jealous of the kids. Sounds crazy I know, but it's what we went through. So I had a little talk with our "guest" and told her she was always welcome in our home and that we promised to take very good care of it always and that our children were part of the home too and to please let them be. I swear things have been peaceful here ever since.
Famous...well my cousin dated Matt LeBlanc through most of junior high and high school. Have great photos of him with her at a prom and he had a perm!!!! Also back in Newton where he lived he was always called Matthew...hated being call Matt and his last name was pronouned LeBlank not the fancier version of LeBlanc. All in all he was a good kid and always good to his mom. I remember when he left here to move to NY to try and get some commercials, etc. He left construction work here and a lot of friends teased him about becoming a "model" I well remember his early struggles of yucky apartments, no money, etc. My cousin would occassionally send him some cash to help him out. They remained friends for a long time. He even called her when she was out in CA for business to meet up with her, as he was just starting Friends then. He came here several months ago to celebrate his wedding with family and friends who couldn't make the big Hawaii trip and he drove down my cousin's old street to go by her house, but her folks sold the place two years ago, but the other neighbors saw him. He has stayed very loyal to his Boston area friends. Bet those guys that teased him for leaving construction work to become a so called "model" aren't laughing now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His sense of humor is very similar to his Joey character but he's definitely no dummy.
Wow, 'Roo, great post! It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up :eek:
Somehow, I'm not surprised that Matt LeBlanc is a nice guy in person who remembers his roots and old friends.
I can wiggle the little toe on my right foot without the other toes moving, and can play "Iquana eyes" by crossing my eyes, then moving either of them around while one remains crossed.
Near death experiences: Only two...both from running out of air while SCUBA diving at a depth of 100 feet. A study in self-control and calmness to exhale constantly while surfacing knowing that there isn't another breath in the tank.
Relations to famous or infamous? Nope.
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Strange things in my life...oh my, where to begin! Not really, but there is a story. Many of you may already be aware that I am an adoptee, and that I did some searching several years ago to find information about my biological heritage. After lots of detective work, I stumbled across a brother and a sister that I didn't know that I had. When my DH and I went for the first time to my 'new' brother's house, to get acquainted, my DH said, "Hey, I've been here before!" My brother opened the door and the two of them just stood there looking at each other for a minute before saying "Hey, HI, how are you!?" in unison. They knew each other. And then when we found my sister, and were telling her about the things we had learned, and told her about our brother, her husband asked her "Hey, is this the guy named Bob that...." and when she said yes, it turned out that they knew each other too. Then, during some of our talks, we started to go thru what we were doing during different times of our life. We discovered that for a period of time during the late 60's and early 70's we all spent a lot of time at a bar that was known for the Blues music of their house band, and on closer look, we realised that we all hung in the same 'regulars' group, sat together at the front of the dance floor, and never knew that we were brother and sisters.
Famous people, hmmmmm.. well, a friend of mine was the prez of the International Wayne Newton Fan Club (better known as Wayniacs) and during that time, my DH and I were trying to get a small video productions company off the ground. My friend asked us to produce a tape for the members of the fan club, so we spent a lot of time going to concerts where Wayne was appearing, taping everything we could. Went to his B-day party, and even taped on his private jet. Put the whole thing together, and then were told that Wayne had a copyright on anything with him in it, so couldn't use it.
Near death experiences, I was following my DH out onto a pier in West Palm Beach FLA. The night before there had been a terrible storm, and the waves had really been whipped up. The Sheriff had ordered that the pier be closed, but then he left, and didn't put any barricades out, so we didn't know. We stopped to look at the water, and all of a sudden a huge wave came from the opposite side of the breakwater, behind me. Rick had started to walk away, and just missed getting hit by it, but it swept me off my feet and was washing me right over to the edge. My feet and legs were hanging over, and I was just about to go, when Rick grabbed my hair and held on, and it was just long enough to let the main force of the wave get by. The Sheriff had returned with some barricades just in time to see this, and he started yelling on his bullhorn, "Get off that pier or I'll arrest you!!!" Of course, we were already scrambling to get off, and even if we hadn't he wouldn't have arrested us, because he wouldn't go out there himself.
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Quote from: Starcraft DadWell lets see. I'm a decendent of the King of France in the late 1600's. The first born of each family is considered a prince. So I guess I'm Prince Starcraft Dad.:D Now if I can only find my castle.
Please don't tell anyone about this, but as an amature genealogist, I take a kind of morbid pleasure in finding related spouses in the family tree.
I've found a king in England that I'm decended from 43 different ways...that I know of so far.
My most recent discovery, (and most inbred to date) is on my father's mother's side. An ancestor from the early 1600's married his first cousin. His son married his first cousin. His grandson married his first cousin. Then it skips a generation, and his great-great grandson married his first cousin.
Mixed into this (the non-cousin marriages that produced the wives) are people who's ancestors are also ancestors of my father's father, both of my mother's parents, and at least one of PJay's mother's parents.
And I'm looking for more.
This last one caused me to go over the edge, and use Jeff Foxworthy's comment about the family tree not forking.
BTW, by the time you go back 1,000 years, you have so many ancestors that you are likely descended from anyone who's blood still survives, many of them dozens of ways. At 1,000 years, you have about 17 billion (17,179,869,183 to be precise) ancestors. That's close to all the people who have ever died. With the next generation, that number nearly doubles, and doubles again with each additional generation, so that at 2,000 years, you have about 117,156,589,585,013,628,892 (117 quintillion) ancestors. We're all related.
Austin
Quote from: AustinBostonPlease don't tell anyone about this, but as an amature genealogist, I take a kind of morbid pleasure in finding related spouses in the family tree.
I've found a king in England that I'm decended from 43 different ways...that I know of so far.
My most recent discovery, (and most inbred to date) is on my father's mother's side. An ancestor from the early 1600's married his first cousin. His son married his first cousin. His grandson married his first cousin. Then it skips a generation, and his great-great grandson married his first cousin.
Mixed into this (the non-cousin marriages that produced the wives) are people who's ancestors are also ancestors of my father's father, both of my mother's parents, and at least one of PJay's mother's parents.
And I'm looking for more.
This last one caused me to go over the edge, and use Jeff Foxworthy's comment about the family tree not forking.
BTW, by the time you go back 1,000 years, you have so many ancestors that you are likely descended from anyone who's blood still survives, many of them dozens of ways. At 1,000 years, you have about 17 billion (17,179,869,183 to be precise) ancestors. That's close to all the people who have ever died. With the next generation, that number nearly doubles, and doubles again with each additional generation, so that at 2,000 years, you have about 117,156,589,585,013,628,892 (117 quintillion) ancestors. We're all related.
Austin
Wow sounds like you have a family stick instead of a tree...No branches...:)
Quote from: gsm x2I can wiggle the little toe on my right foot without the other toes moving, and can play "Iquana eyes" by crossing my eyes, then moving either of them around while one remains crossed.
gsm x2
HEHEHE! That's great I can too! Kid's think the eyeball thing is hillarious! Try rolling the one around in great big circles then bonk yourself on the side of the head and "pop" them back straight into position. Or "ping pong them back and forth! My little ones just about fall out when they watch this!
OOOOOH I forgot another good thing I can do....
I can flip my eyelids inside out! It's really gross and creepy looking. Made one of my kids cry once! Bad mommy! :Z
this is a cute...and good thread. Mine are just brushes..but here goes. HS-dated an Assemblyman's daughter for a brief spell..so I guess u could say I was doing to the gov what they had been doing to us for years. Also went to HS with a kid who's nick name was "Toast" (don't ask) who was in a movie called "School Ties" with Brandon Frasier. He had a small part..and u have to get the widescreen version to see him cause he's cut out uf the formatted to fit u're tv version. In the service, when I was in England, one evening I was working the gate when a sgt came up to sign a gentleman in. Well, when I checked his license...the address said '1 Buckingham Palace..London". I looked up at the guy..then double checked the address..and was like "no way". Turns out he was the Queen's chauffer. Turns out he owns rental property in the area and the sgt was gonna rent a small house from him. The sgt said he was really surprised when he called to inquire about the house when they answerred "Hello..Buckingham palace". Also..while in England..I dated a gal that handled Prince Charles' poop. She was a lab tech at a hospital in Nottingham when he got injured in a riding accident, and they needed his stool sample for some reason. Bout it..cept got to do some Presidential support stuff while in (which basically means that I got bossed around by officers and secret service a lot..nothing major)...historically..my dad told me that we had a great great grandgather that was the train engineer that took Custer to his Last Stand so to speak.
Quote from: rednekrubbrduckthis is a cute...and good thread. Mine are just brushes..but here goes. HS-dated an Assemblyman's daughter for a brief spell..so I guess u could say I was doing to the gov what they had been doing to us for years. Also went to HS with a kid who's nick name was "Toast" (don't ask) who was in a movie called "School Ties" with Brandon Frasier. He had a small part..and u have to get the widescreen version to see him cause he's cut out uf the formatted to fit u're tv version. In the service, when I was in England, one evening I was working the gate when a sgt came up to sign a gentleman in. Well, when I checked his license...the address said '1 Buckingham Palace..London". I looked up at the guy..then double checked the address..and was like "no way". Turns out he was the Queen's chauffer. Turns out he owns rental property in the area and the sgt was gonna rent a small house from him. The sgt said he was really surprised when he called to inquire about the house when they answerred "Hello..Buckingham palace". Also..while in England..I dated a gal that handled Prince Charles' poop. She was a lab tech at a hospital in Nottingham when he got injured in a riding accident, and they needed his stool sample for some reason. Bout it..cept got to do some Presidential support stuff while in (which basically means that I got bossed around by officers and secret service a lot..nothing major)...historically..my dad told me that we had a great great grandgather that was the train engineer that took Custer to his Last Stand so to speak.
Wow, Ian, It is great to see you back--I've missed your special brand of craziness and humor that kept things moving here.
Funny co-incidence--my grandmother had three older brothers (they lived in Omaha) who worked for the railroad (conductors and firemen) at the time yours did when Custer and his men came through. So maybe our ancestors had met or KNEW EACH OTHER?
I wish I had thought to ask Gram about things like that in case the brothers ever talked about it to her later (she wasnt born yet when it happened)
I know also that my grandmother's mother was taken to Fort Kearney, Nebraska to give birth to one of those older brothers because they lived on the prairies then and there was an INdian raid at about the time the baby was due.
My grandfather Hodgeman's mother attended the Lincoln-Douglas debates when she was 15 years old and lived to be 98. (My grandfather was born when she was 45 and she outlived 3 husbands--the last one she married at age 78 was the brother of a fellow named MUlford who wrote the Hopalong Cassidy books)
My father's family are descended from the Ethan Allen family and my mother's family trace back to William Bradford governor of the original Mass colony. (And some of my "other ancestors" were here to meet the boat when it landed at The Rock. :W)
Funny thing about Native American ancestry--I have high cheek bones, dark eyes and dark hair, but we have recently discovered that my blue-eyes blonde husband has much more NA blood than I do and it is much more recent than mine. Go figure.
Quote from: MommaMiaHEHEHE! That's great I can too! Kid's think the eyeball thing is hillarious! Try rolling the one around in great big circles then bonk yourself on the side of the head and "pop" them back straight into position. Or "ping pong them back and forth! My little ones just about fall out when they watch this!
OOOOOH I forgot another good thing I can do....
I can flip my eyelids inside out! It's really gross and creepy looking. Made one of my kids cry once! Bad mommy! :Z
OK--this is too weird....I didn't list it, but I can do that too. At least I used to be able too. OK--haven't tried it in years. I can still do it, but I had to use my fingers to flip them back, so it may be years before I TRY that again. :o
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Quote from: NightOwlWow, Ian, It is great to see you back--I've missed your special brand of craziness and humor that kept things moving here.
Funny co-incidence--my grandmother had three older brothers (they lived in Omaha) who worked for the railroad (conductors and firemen) at the time yours did when Custer and his men came through. So maybe our ancestors had met or KNEW EACH OTHER?
Hey..thanks..I'm still here...do more reading then posting now a days. Almost made a post on u're "jobs going overseas" thread..but tired of rehashing old news..and it's not gonna help me get back into my old line of work (especially since we're now a dime a dozen). But we're surviving.
Very Possibly...heck...we may even be kin and not know it (now that would be scarey). There's a lot about my family tree I don't know about. At my grandfather's funeral...my great aunt pulled out an old photograph of the siblings with like like 6 brothers and 2 sisters. Most had passed away (2 in the pre-teen years), one moved to Oklahoma and had gotten into oil. One sister stayed behind and had gotten married, the other moved with my Grandfather to upstate NY. The other 3 brothers she wasn't sure of what happenned to. Don't really know anything about my mother's side of the family cept my grandparents we're from northern Italy and moved to the states to get away from facism (sp) and Mousolini.
There are a few things we have in our history.
On My Mother's side, My grandmother's middle name was Tatiana. This was the middle name for the Czar's daughter Anastasia, and we believe (but can't confim) that we were related to her. Our family has an old painting of someone we believe to be of Russian Aristocracy that we've had in our family for a long time.
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My dad has some neat stories he used to tell us. When he was a kid, he was walking home one late night. It was very dark out side and he couldn't see very well. He stopped walking suddenly and just stood still not knowing whyAfter a minute of standing still he noticed a live electric wire hanging from a pold about 6 inchec in front of his face.
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Another time when he was in Turkey - He was in the Navy. A terrorist jumpe on the bus he was riding on and sprayed the buss with a machine gun killing many of the people on the bus.
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Also in Turkey, he was walking through a building when a live grenade came rolling down the stairs. He ran outside and it went off.
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My story - kind of neat, when I was in the Army, we were making a night attack on another company of soldiers during a field exercise. As the aggressors in the the attack, we had to "capture the flag. As we approached their position, someone blew our cover and instead of sneaking through we were forced to make a head on assault. I was running toward cover foreward and as I ran I stopped dead and jumped straight up in the air. As I came down I landed at an angle with my right hip slamming into the hitch from a Water Buffalo (Water trailer) I hadn't known was there. My leg was caught in something and I was trapped in place bleeding like a stuck pig.
What stopped me was Concertina (Barbed wire that is rolled) wire strung around the site- I must have seen it at the last second and reacted to get away from it. BTW, during a field exercise, concertina wire is supposed to be marked with a white tape so it can be seen - this wasn't done. My hip was severely bruised and I was out of commision for a week.
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A funny anecdote to this story is that earlier in the night we had attacked a different company also on an exercise. In the dark, we got turned around and assaulted the wrong camp. We ended up assaulting some Delta guys who were also on an FTX who were expecting an attack. They rolled out of their tents and captured every one of us. We all got a nice thumping from that one.
Not one of our better nights.
I have no known links to those people mentioned above , all I would throw would be "cold ones" :J :J :W
well let's see. We have a animal house. I've renamed all the animals. Mr. Tweet(parrot) . Ding Ding, and Buggy(dogs) . Squeaky, Little honey, and Big buddy(cats)
I am related to a 1800's lighthouse keeper in michigan, that is haunted. Big Bay Lighthouse in Michigan. My nephew and I took a trip there(now a bed and Breakfast). While in the tower, sitting next to the flashing beacon, at night, we sat for about a hour. Across the yard, to the stone wall overlooking the lake, walked a figure. When the figure got to the fence, it vanished. No kidding, as I am typing this, a chill runs down my spine. After seeing that, I believe in ghosts.
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I found out also that I am a descendant of the last empire of austria.