Nimitz' WWII 'diary' to be unveiled online on Monday

[The Minsky Moment]

Oh, to your earlier point about later immigrants staying in closer touch with the Fatherland: Princesca's German ancestors mostly came over much later (c. 1840s) and in fact are still in touch with distant German cousins today.

All my Kraut ancestors came over prior to the 1840s and apparently clashed with the more liberal-minded 1848'ers.

derspiess - two centuries of fine tradion keeping the working man down.

[derspiess]

derspiess - two centuries of fine tradion keeping the working man down.

  Actually, more like working man keeping the other working man down.

My dad's dad owned a grocery store which went under because he was too lenient on extending credit, then he became a bus driver.  My mom's dad was a carpenter and union member (and a Democrat but we don't talk about that).

[Ed Anger]

 The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

[Razgovory]

Yay, the most interesting development in years in US naval history, and the thread turns into a Germanic-descent pickelhaube measuring contest.

I have Irish, English and Italians in the family as well.  They are just... less reputable.

[Razgovory]

Oh, to your earlier point about later immigrants staying in closer touch with the Fatherland: Princesca's German ancestors mostly came over much later (c. 1840s) and in fact are still in touch with distant German cousins today.

I'm told that after Uncle Ruddy went off the deep end, the Hess family stopped corresponding with their German cousins.

[Siege]

Fuck. Im surrounded by Germans!

[Ed Anger]

I'm forming a kampfgruppe.

[garbon]

Fuck. Im surrounded by Germans!

My mother was born in Germany.

[Syt]

Fuck. Im surrounded by Germans!

[The Brain]

since my family tree is so gigantic.

Wouldn't that be the case for many people?

In Kentucky?

[Admiral Yi]

 

[Siege]

  Brain, not everybody in Kentucky is a redneck.