Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeWinston Churchill never slept either, are you sure that was the reason?!
My great grandfather was run over by Winston Churchill. (Well to be exact, his driver knocked over my great grandfather, but he was a passenger in the offending vehicle). With the compensation he opened a stamp shop.
It was all very hush hush.
When at a family gathering I announced that I was off to Aus'
and might look up my cousin they all gave me a funny look.
Turned out the emigration to Aus' was a cover story - he had
sadly committed suicide and I was, at the time, perceived
too young to know the truth.
Over the years everyone (younger and older than me) was told.
They just forgot to tell me!
Originally posted by wolfgang59Oh, my. I appreciate your candor.
When at a family gathering I announced that I was off to Aus'
and might look up my cousin they all gave me a funny look.
Turned out the emigration to Aus' was a cover story - he had
sadly committed suicide and I was, at the time, perceived
too young to know the truth.
Over the years everyone (younger and older than me) was told.
They just forgot to tell me!
Originally posted by Captain StrangeIn the hypothetical case, and strictly for the sake
Ayatollah, where could one acquire LSD stamps just supposing one was so inclined ?
of speculative science, they could be theoretically
made by yourself at home using some basic ingredientes
which, so I've heard, can be easily found.
Originally posted by moonbus'Lody was shot at dawn by a firing squad at the Tower of London in the first execution there in 167 years.'
My wife's great grandfather was a spy in the Great War, executed by the British in the Tower of London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hans_Lody
Blimey, rather puts my family secret in the shade. 🙂
My brother in law's girlfriend here got to nine months in her pregnancy without really 'showing' aside from looking a bit overweight ~ no baby bulge at all. They then went off for a week 'on holiday'. She came back looking rather slimmer. Life went on. The baby was then brought up in another neighbourhood by friends of the couple for two years before my sister in law happened to see the parents of the child playing with it in a stranger's house ~ which they had been doing every day for those two years. It all came out and a few months later the two got married and their daughter stayed at home at her grandparents' house during the ceremony.
Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeYeah, it’s not every family that can pull an honest-to-God secret agent out of its cabinet of skeletons.
'Lody was shot at dawn by a firing squad at the Tower of London in the first execution there in 167 years.'
Blimey, rather puts my family secret in the shade. 🙂
The British kindly returned Lody’s personal effects to the family. We still have his pocket watch and snuff box.