classic33
Leg End Member
Always thought Reagan's ancestors were Irish.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/ronald-reagan-s-irish-ancestors-found-on-historic-morpeth-roll-1.1601480?mode=a
I'm American. Ask me anything.
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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/ronald-reagan-s-irish-ancestors-found-on-historic-morpeth-roll-1.1601480?mode=a
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
You can always tell the ones who have Irish ancestry- they have an original framed New York policemen's truncheon, turned on a lathe from their Irish peasant farmer's shillelagh, proudly displayed in their study.
classic33
Leg End Member
Did Obama, Moneygall, have one?
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Trump has 8...
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anothersam
SMIDSMe
- Location
- Far East Sussex
While a British accent allegedly pulls (and forgive me for posting the following),
View: https://youtu.be/-axgs3tkOaU
that would seem to be the extent of your influence. I am unaware of British hands at the levers of true power for quite some time now.
View: https://youtu.be/t-9pDZMRCpQ
Note the especially historically accurate George III
Something we should all be reflecting upon every chance we get.
I love/have loved/will love time travel movies. Even the bad ones. Maybe especially the bad ones - they are the most fun.
View: https://youtu.be/D01mdGW9-Zg
Every single president was American, doggonit. It looks like we need to run this again, too:
View: https://youtu.be/IQ28jC6zG9k
Paging Ron Silver
View: https://youtu.be/ns-qtoxnAS8
Spoiler alert: shillelaghs galore
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classic33
Leg End Member
But if we're in the past, which may also be the present, how do you reflect upon something that may be in the future?
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anothersam
SMIDSMe
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- Far East Sussex
The human brain had a firm talk with itself near the beginning of its evolution and came to the conclusion that no good would come from being able to access all of its timeline at the same instant, and so devised the coping mechanism of linear time: otherwise we would, simply put, go crazy. Even attempting to discuss all this in a seemingly rational way begins to cause the head to spin.
The closest we come to breaching this blessed linearity is on forums when nesting comments, which we do at our peril, particularly if one makes the mistake of attempting to quote oneself.
The closest we come to breaching this blessed linearity is on forums when nesting comments, which we do at our peril, particularly if one makes the mistake of attempting to quote oneself.
The story in which the movie Arrival is based makes a very good attempt at it, well worth a read
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Is it true that the state of Texas was named after Texas Instruments?
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anothersam
SMIDSMe
- Location
- Far East Sussex
Pick one:
– It was named after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
– It was named after the band.
View: https://youtu.be/BUOEkAIO1sA
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– It was named after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
– It was named after the band.
View: https://youtu.be/BUOEkAIO1sA
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twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Is it true that you're all called Sam and are everybody's Uncle?
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anothersam
SMIDSMe
- Location
- Far East Sussex
No, we only comprise .047% of the population.
(They forgot Samonella, whom you should never hire as a chef)
It wasn't actually the name I was born with, but my initials. My wife started calling me Sam and it stuck.
I'm uncle to 3 nephews and 2 nieces that I'm aware of. Fun fact: one them has coulrophobia.
View: https://youtu.be/lUdIZ2To3gc
(They forgot Samonella, whom you should never hire as a chef)
It wasn't actually the name I was born with, but my initials. My wife started calling me Sam and it stuck.
I'm uncle to 3 nephews and 2 nieces that I'm aware of. Fun fact: one them has coulrophobia.
View: https://youtu.be/lUdIZ2To3gc
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
FTFY: Did O'Bama, Moneygall, have one?
classic33
Leg End Member
They dropped the "O" in front of the surname due to the confusion it caused.
O, yer'd be after looking for the O'Obama's 'ouse.
One "O" too many.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
If our influence went into the Boston Harbor along with the tea, why are your houses still described as Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian?
