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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 03:52 PM Original message |
Let's play family legends - stories that you heard and always thought were true |
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QueenOfCalifornia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. I want to play |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. My grandmother told me that my uncle (ok ok GREAT uncle) fought in WWII |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. My Grandfather swore up and down that Walt Disney was Jewish. |
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grassfed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Walt Disney was Irish |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 05:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Irish and German, his mother was German, so it's possible she was Jewish. |
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grassfed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 10:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. She was German Catholic - Ohio farmer stock |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
4. That my uncle was the first paratrooper to land in Normandy on D-Day |
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tokenlib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. I believe, the guy hung up on the steeple lost both legs as a result of the injuries. n/t |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Yeah and he was in the 82nd Airborne |
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yy4me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. My Italian grandmother's family was driven out of Italy by |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Hey my italian great grandfather was kicked out of Switzerland for |
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Bright Eyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. It's a silly one. |
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EmilyAnne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. I actually thought that one of my great uncles was a Marlboro Man model in the 1940s. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. My mother ALWAYS told the story of how she was made to eat her own vomit... |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
10. I was told that Rea Valley in Missouri was named after the only pro-Union family member in the 1860s |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
13. Ah, family legends... |
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Liberal Gramma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
15. That great-grandfathers fought on opposite sides of the Civil War |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Can you imagine the chagrin in years to come, when Chelsea |
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Liberal Gramma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. lol |
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JackintheGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
17. I have several |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
19. That we were related to a signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
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galledgoblin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
20. hi mom, you can answer this one for me |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 05:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Uncle Walter served in North Africa and Italy. He was ground crew |
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noel711 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
22. This is not what I heard, but what I told... |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. That my great-great grandfather left Ireland because he was with the IRA. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 05:09 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. He probably was involved with a predecessor group or even |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 05:09 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. He probably was involved with a predecessor group or even |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
24. My father's middle name was Elbert |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-28-08 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
26. I always thought my |
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