Forebears (was: Whiteness?)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 6, 2000, 5:59 |
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At 6:01 pm -0700 5/9/00, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:
>On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote:
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>> *sniff* And me descended from kings. Why I associate with all you riffraff
>> is beyond me.
>>
>> :-)
>
>Well, no kings in my background, but plenty of others from the English
>aristocracy.
Ach - and me a republican (most definitely with *lower case* r- ) and
democrat. What am I doing hob-nobbing with all these royalty & aristos?
;)
AFAIK all my forebears were commoners (maybe it's as well that I can't
trace them back back more than about three generations!)
Ray.
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