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Originally posted by skeeter
No, I meant what I posted...."best form of flattery". ....ring ring - ring ring ....hang on a sec, be right back...ring ring (picks up)

"Hello, skeeter speaking"
"Yes...Yes...Yes, he's here. Yes......OK"

Hey Bowmann, this call is for you. It's the zoo - they're saying you've got the brains of an ass and he wants it back.

Originally posted by The Plumber
pearls before swine....

Originally posted by aspviper666
Leg before wicket.

my grandfather was really rich but was tricked by ppl and lost all his money cuz he was a drunk. That was probably the reason why he died before I was born.

I'm related (distantly) to Robbie Williams. 😞

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
I'm related (distantly) to Robbie Williams. 😞

A brother of my grand-father was sent by the Court of Lisbon in Mozambica and Tanganika (Tanzania now) between WWI and WWII to bring and teach christianity to the bushmen. Because they cannot speak portuguese, he decided to learn swahili, the language of the guys of the area, even if Lisbon disagreed. He had done such a good job that his boss wanted him for Bishop of Tanganika, but he said he wasn't here to seat in silk in a rich room, but to build schools and churches and jumped back into the jungle.
In the beginning of the 70's, he came back in Switzerland. A lot of people called him for religious ceremonies, such as weddings, funeral or baptisms.
The "King of Tanzania" became mad at the end of his life, and died on 25th January 1995 at the age of 83.

My family has nothing interesting to say about it whatsoever.
Most of them worked in t'mill.

Originally posted by Varg
My family has nothing interesting to say about it whatsoever.
Most of them worked in t'mill.

No.
Wool mills, cotton mills.

Originally posted by Varg
No.
Wool mills, cotton mills.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Those Satanic Mills eh?

Does your sort of miller have a miller's thumb?

Originally posted by Varg
Well those Satanic Mills are mostly now Satanic Luxury Executive Apartments, very desirable.

I have no idea what a Miller's thumb is.

Originally posted by Varg
Well those Satanic Mills are mostly now Satanic Luxury Executive Apartments, very desirable.

I have no idea what a Miller's thumb is.

I am a third generation San Franciscan. Both my maternal grandparents witnessed the 1906 earthquake and mt grandfather watched the city burn from his fishing boat.

My paternal great-grandfather was an early union organizer for the meatpackers in Chicago. His picture hangs on the wall of the union hall.