Common bond
And finally, this nugget on Bush and Kerry being blood brothers (also a Springsteen song title. Sorry, we just can't help ourselves). Bush and Kerry are ninth cousins twice removed, and according to Ancestry.com, they share a famous common ancestor: none other than Vlad III Dracul, the macabre Transylvanian warlord from the 15th century who is more commonly known as Dracula, later immortalized in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, "Dracula." They're also apparently related to the late Princess Diana.
Bush has closer ties to Dracula, going back 32 generations to the former ruler of Transylvania and what is now southern Romania. Kerry has to go back 34 generations in the family tree. As for the Diana connection, Kerry and Bush are both related to her and the House of Windsor. They are distant cousins of the famous princess: Kerry is a 12th cousin once removed; Bush is her 11th cousin twice removed.
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There is Grandeur in the View of Life; it fills me with a Deep Wonder, and Intense Cynicism.
And both of them are also Bonesmen. That's gotta mean something...
The M2HB: The Greatest Machinegun Ever Made.
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"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." --P.J. O'Rourke
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --J.S. Mill
I was Vlad the Impaler in one of my past lives (see dig ).
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This day is Fantastic!
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Political Compass: -3/-6 DOOMerWoW
"I really hate it when the guy you were pegging as Mr. Worst Case starts saying, "Oh, I was wrong, it's going to be much worse." " - Adrian Laguna
My grandmother's maiden name was Benz. As in, Mercedes Benz. The relationship hardly matters, though. These things are interesting, but they don't really mean much.
Yes, but only one of them has a vice president who is never seen in direct sunlight and is mostly hiding in "undisclosed locations".
When ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
Patrick Degan wrote:Yes, but only one of them has a vice president who is never seen in direct sunlight and is mostly hiding in "undisclosed locations".
Don't forget his "darkened lair."
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
The Kernel wrote:My great-great grandfather was a dirty farmer in Sicily who lived in poverty his entire life till he died of old age.
Bah! You're not so special. I mostly come from lines of poor Yorkish peasants who probably spent half their time growing crops and half the time fighting Scotsmen.
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” -Jean-Luc Picard
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." -Margaret Atwood
And I have some sort of famous relatives in the past, but I can't remember how.
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"preemptive killing of cops might not be such a bad idea from a personal saftey[sic] standpoint..." --Keevan Colton
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan
Almost a milennium ago, my ancestors ruled Scandinavia, Poland, Ukraine, Byzant, Holy Roman Empire and other similar places. It's kinda cool to know that, but it doesn't matter all that much. More or less everyone in the world is related to a medieval monarch or some other "important person". Wouldn't be surprised a bit if I were to find out that I shared a common ancestry with few other SDnetters.
"Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."
I'm related to Sir Isaac Newton (my real name's Andy Newton, we've got a pretty detailed - and interesting - family tree).
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
All I know about my family is that I am from a long line soldiers of the ottomon empire and rich land owners in central america. All I know.
Brotherhood of the Monkey @( !.! )@ To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~Steve Prefontaine Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Oberleutnant wrote:Almost a milennium ago, my ancestors ruled Scandinavia, Poland, Ukraine, Byzant, Holy Roman Empire and other similar places. It's kinda cool to know that, but it doesn't matter all that much. More or less everyone in the world is related to a medieval monarch or some other "important person". Wouldn't be surprised a bit if I were to find out that I shared a common ancestry with few other SDnetters.
I'm about four, maybe five can't remeber removed from the House of Windsor and thrice removed from the House of Tudor
Sometimes doing family trees can be fun
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"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
I've got some Irish/English lords on my father's side, and criminals on my mother's side. Oddly enough, they were all rich until they came to Australia, then they apparently pissed the money away on alcohol and such.
Why is this relation to Dracula not being exposed at a higher level? I bet this would scare the shit out of fundy Bushites.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
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