Big Top by Rob Harrell for September 09, 2010

BIGTOPIAN BREAKFAST MENU:

1) Turnip Crepes

2) Waffles Benedict

3) Turkey Pop Tarts with gravy

4) Latkes with borsht or apple sauce

5) Mini Sides of Beef

6) Original Ray’s Strawberry Pizza

7) Trans Fats

8) Parsley Potatoes OR Coconut Custard Pie

BEVERAGES:

A) Fresh Fruit Juices

B) Sordid Vegetable Juices

C) Labatts Beer or Austrailian Shiraz

D) 6% Milk (white or Chocolate)

E) Dr Toon’s world-famous Nuclear Coffee (tm)

F) SB Devine patented Coca-Mocha (also tm)

ORDER BY NUMBER. NO SUBSTITUTIONS. NO HOME DELIVERY ON ORDERS UNDER $1

Frankr I’ll take one of everything ,except the alcohol.

Where is the chocolate goodies. Frankr?

I will add Chocolate to your crepes, LW.

Good Morning LuvH8!

Thank you kindly Frankr :-)

Hello Frankr & Little Sister

No Chocolate Cake?????

May I please have 4, B and E?

You’re welcome.

Chocolate Turnip Crepes? No Thank You!

Here’s your order TwerntMe. I think B & E could land you in jail.

Still waiting on the Chocolate delivery. Driver is late

Good morning, Tribeandall……Interesting breakfast, Frankr.

I’ll have the #4 with applesauce, and the #C Shiraz.

Chocolate cake, if you can find it for It Wasn’t Me

Oh, and a purple chair to eat it in!

Here’s your lunch Montana Lady, purple seats on the left.

I just heard from the chocolate delivery driver. Seems he is late ‘cause he crashed into a peanut butter delivery truck.

Go figure.

Thank you Frankr, I hope I don’t go to jail over my beverage choices.

Hello MontanaLady (: Preparing for your first breakfast?

Good Evening, It Wasn’t Me……one of these days, I’ll set one up……..just need to learn how to cut and paste……

One of those problems about age…….it’s too hard to learn new things……

You could just serve chocolate cake, white milk and coffee. I would be happy.

(sadly shakes head) I knew the chair was rigged. Are you okay MontanaLady?    

It is okay to take up to ten minutes to get the menu posted once you have said hello first. A little more is fine, but people get antsy after ten minutes. But you might want to mention you will be making breakfast.

Good Morning Sir Lew!

You are up early or late?

IwM okay, I’ll work on it!!! :)))

Good Night, Frankr, Little Sister, MontanaLady (glad you survived the purple chair’s green smoke), Sir Lew and Everyone!

FRANKR I haven’t learned numbers yet because here at PS#42 they aren’t in the curriculum till third grade (unfortunately the kindly police officer didn’t understand last night on the way home from the bar). I do know my ABCs. I’ll take a large order of E with a touch of D, please.

Morning TRIBE! Why are my cats rubbing my ankle? Can’t cats read digital clocks? Stupid felines. I’m defriending them from Facebook.

Good night everyone.

Here’s your order Lew.

If you haven’t learned your numbers yet, how do you know it is PS42? Could be 36.

(don’t tell your kindly friend about LuvH8’s B&E)

Good Night Sisters.

Hmm, three hours ago for the last comment….and I suspect Frankr is no longer available to serve up breakfast. So I’ll just grab a #5–well done– with lotsa A.

Been up since about 5am, not able to get back to sleep. Figured I might as well get a little breakfast before I have to start my morning routine.

Mornin’ Doc You’re coming in, I’m going out. Maybe that’s why they call it ‘shifts’.

I’m almost done with my toon tour, though. Make it easier tonight when I get home close to 9pm.

piffaf

Cough- cough

Good Morning Doc, Quaby, Tribeandall and of course Grog!

Another great day Terry. Hope I get to see some of it. Toon tour

poof

what do you think I should do, Doc?

Good Morning, Tribe!

Zonked out early last night. I had planned to hold out until turnover but the body had other intentions!

Good Morning, Doc.

Good Morning, RwB. It is going to be a beautiful day today. I’ll be driving around most of the day, too.

Good morning to who have been on and soon will or not been seen in a while: ♠Lonewolf♠, Little sister , MontanaLady, Frankr, , hopeandjoy2, Lewreader & RwB, Grog, Doctor Toon, Dry, Rmom, Bestest Big Sister LuvH8, The Sojourner, Love&PieceJoy ,yyyguy, Carmy, A Little Sharper U, DDEMET, jarlyddie

Sun will be up soon here.

Good morning, Tribe!

I’m a day late and a dollar short with this one, but…

Happy Int’l Literacy Day (September 8)!

Also: Happy Feast of Trumpets (aka Rosh ha-Shanah or Hebrew New Year)!

Here’s appropriate sacred music for the day…

Good Mmorning, Frankr, Little Sister, It Wasn’t Me (Yes it was), MontanaLady, Lewreader, Quaby, Doctor Toon, ♠Lonewolf♠, Kab, Johanan and…..

Runs with Beer!!!

Good Morning, Kab, Grog & Frankr.

Lots of comments to catch up on this morning.

Are you ready for some football?!!

Frankr, great breakfast spread! Gracias!

Grog…………………………………………

I am ready for some…………………………………

FOOTBALL!!!

Also for breakfast: 5, 8a (the potatoes) and F.

I might have mentioned that in passing once or twice, Grog.

I’m having too much fun with these buttons - can’t you tell? :))

See you tomorrow! (fades out with Master Chris Alan)

No I’m not ever ready for * football* but I have to get ready for Saturday.

No, Doc, you’re getting colder!

Is it Grog who lives in TX? Parts of TX had tornado’s yesterday hope wasn’t near his area. Left destroyed buildings.

We have a CIMA drill at 8AM today. It’ll surely interfere with my morning toon tour.

The tornados touched down around the South side of Dallas, Kab and to the north around the Red River area. I don’t have much in the way of details, but none of them touched down in the Houston area.

Football Doc You know A bunch of guys run around for two hours never score and 8 million people tell you why you should be watching it.

Kinda like the Twilight movie thingie.

Or was that soccer??

You must be talking about Soccer, RwB. Certainly not the NFL

Morning All!

Morning, Digital Frog.

Thanks Grog glad and sorry for others that tornado wasn’t near you. Sorry for others for damage those tornado’s can do. Well I’m outa here got to work on text book. And I can’t have GC a work. Dept will see and I don’t want trouble.

Doc!!!! Football - Guys in tight pants bend over and display their back sides between playing with a weirdly shaped ball. They also like to make big body piles, getting up close and personal with each other.

I’ll have a coconut custard pie and a cocoa-mocha. oh and nice to meet u frankr!

IwM, there was NO green smoke. my chair is green smoke proof! so yeah!

morning doc. I actually would have gotten ur nuclear coffee this morning, as I was in need for a hot drink, but I actually dont drink coffee, so I opted for cocoa-mocha.

Hello Quaby, Doc T, Runs from Beer, Lonewolf, Sister Kab, Grog, Johanan, Digital Frog, DDFence, Jarlyddie & Everyone!

I distinctly saw green smoke. Ummm….did you know Starbright’s Divine CocoMocha is made with alien coffee?

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪☼ Good Morning TRIBE! ☼♪

Hello to all those here!

yea, well alien coffee doesnt taste like coffee. And there was no one in the chair, as i remember, because you were trying to get other people to sit in it, so there was no one there to make it react, and it would be like you to plant a green smoke bomb. :P

Good morning, Everyone,

I’m taking up It Wasn’t Me’s challenge in creating tomorrow’s breakfast menu………Polish style…….see you at turn over tonight. :)))))

Hi Doctor Toon, jarlyddie and It Wasn’t Me.

It Wasn’t Me - Looks like jarlyddie already has you pegged!

Hi MontanaLady - Congrats!

Hi Sojo & MontanaLady

MontanaLady was sitting in the purple chair when the green smoke appeared.

Poof!

Good morning all. Can I get a nice fresh order of WHODAT!!!

Good Morning MisngNOLA.

was she? i don’t believe it. When you offer something to someone, it’s generally because there’s something wrong with it, so anyone you offered that to would be suspicious and refuse ur offer. Oh, hi and nice to meet u, MisngNOLA!

uh uh montana lady, tonight’s the one night i’ll ever be up late enough to make brekkie, and ur not stealing it from me.

Piffle

Put up both menus There’s enough appetite to go around.

you don’t want to know what goes on in those body piles LuvH8

PFaffle

jarlyddie…..is that a gauntlet that has just been thrown?

More like a chef’s hat, MontanaLady

Pop

Now I am going to be imagining nude football all day! Thank you Runs From Beer I’m laughing already.

Poof!

Glad I could start your day off with a smile Was Too

Good Morning RwB.

montanalady, all I’m saying is i never get to put up brekfast because I end up in bed at 11:30, and it wont even be that once school starts, but tonight my friends are coming over and they like to stay up till like 3 a.m. so i’ll be able to post, and u probably have a bunch of chances to stay up. So, all i’m saying is i’d really like to do it just once.

oh and if i do get there first, i will put polish stuff on the menu, but it wont all be polish.

jarlyddie - Turnover would about 1:00 a.m. your time, or soon after.

Both menus might be interesting! (wouldn’t be the first time)

kay well that works.

is no one gonna say ANYTHING?

is ok, doc :)

I just check in and out as I do things also!

Braaaappp!

Now I feel better Doc. Unfortunately, jarlyddie, they sometimes expect me to work around here. Can you imagine?!

Po Poo Poop Poof! there

What are they?

jarlyddie - This is somthing you need to pick according to what you like most. I’m in my 50’s and probably don’t share your tastes. Others here might be better if you want them to help. The first two seem nice but I personally don’t care for the third one but that’s because I dpn’t care for graffiti. I hope you will enjoy whatever you choose!

kay

See you later Doctor Toon.

As you can see everyone has their own opinion. I hope those here can heip if you want. As people come on during the day they may check it out and let you know what they think. Good luck!

Low blow Dusty. Not that we would expect anything less…

Hi bossyheifer.

jarlyddie- If you want to post the links again is up to you. It might be fun to see what others think and give them something to talk about! :-)

Good Afternoon Ladtwolf, LuvH8, Lonewolf, Lew, Doctor, Grog, Emet, Johanan, ML, Jarlyddie, Kab, RwithB, Sojo and the rest.

I hope everyone was able to help themselves to breakfast while I slept.

Happy Rosh Hashanah!

Hapy Literisi Dae!

& Happy Football Day

Hi Frankr.

rite i think ill do it later, soj.

what is this feetsball of which you speak, Grog? Is game played with feets, no? Does you throws them, or maybe keecks them, yes? and what of this ball? Do you need to hit it with the feets, yes?

Hi RwB - Good question!

@RwB: Football is just a European word for soccer

nothing important

It has a totally different meaning here though.

I’m Open! I’m Open! Let’s Huddle!

(uncontrollable giggling)

At least you didn’t say let’s Cuddle

Tackle! Touch Down!

(snerking giggles)

Good afternoon Tribeandall!

4:08………………………………………and counting!

Hi ♠Lonewolf♠ - Of about 30 GB I only have 4.3 GB left to back up. It should be finished when I get up in the morning and I can reboot the laptop and get everything working again. I hope you and James have a good time together!

4 hours to kick-off

Hi, Sojo.

That would be James, if you are talking about my son.

:^)

Sorry ♠Lonewolf♠ - Sometimes I have a hard time keeping things straight. I could blame it on the meds I take but I really think it’s just me! :-)

I do the same thing, Sojo. LOL No harm at all, sir!

Got about an hour left and then I’m done with work for the day.

Have a good afternoon, Sojo & everyone!

This will help me keep that straight now!

P&L

(see Sojo, I forgot something!)

(hysterical giggling) It’s the ima…… (deep breath, bursts into laughter) the image of them… (cackling laughter) run… (gulping deep breaths) running down the (bursts of laughter) down the field with their danglies (rolling on the floor laughing) danglies bouncing. (renewed bursts of laughter) Oh! I can’t breath! (rolling on the floor laughing and pounding fists)

Grog - Will any games be on the regular broadcast stations or just ESPN?

(I think It Wasn’t Me is out of control!)

Sojourner, tonight’s game is on NBC. All Sunday games are local channels, but you’re subject to regional action for the day games. Monday’s is ESPN.

Sometimes when Texans games are on ESPN or the NFL network, the game will be on a local station so the people in Houston can see it.

I get bother stations as part of my package + the Sunday Ticket, so it just doesn’t matter to me.

Thanks Grog - I’ll watch it then. Believe it or not one of our local station’s web site (for a major network) doesn’t even show the program listing anymore from the national broadcast. It just says movie, sports, to be announced etc. so I don’t know what’s going to be on that channel!

Hey, jarlyddie……I’ll concede the menu to you tonight. Being as ya is in the Eastern time zone and all, and will be up late tonight. :))))

So, maybe tomorrow, I’ll have something!

ItWasn’tMe………….that is some visual about football!!!!!!! Hee Hee!!! Giggle, giggle!!!

My Mountain Man wants to watch the first “real” game of the season, so I guess I’ll watch part of it. Go Broncos. Oh wait, they’re not playing.

Hi, tribe! Luv - I have to agree, that mental image is hilarious!

Hi MontanaLady and Rmom - Hope your day is going good for both of you.

Great photo Rmom - Thanks.

Hi, & thanks, Sojo! I can’t take credit for that one, as you can tell by the copyright. It did say as long as the picture was unaltered, I could use it. It does remind me of going to Kruger Park & trying to spot the animals. Interesting tidbit - that picture was taken on a private game preserve right next to Kruger park, and no fences in-between the two, so the animals can go back & forth. But leopards aren’t seen often in Kruger, because they like to hide, and visitors to Kruger must stay on the main (paved) roads.

Rmom - I found out how hard it is to spot leopards when I got the Animal Planet network and watched a lot of the Big Cat Diaries. The African photos I posted has a large tree with a leopard in it showing how hard is is to see it.

Sojo - The best analogy I can come up with is a “Where’s Waldo?” game, but Waldo keeps changing costumes.

He catches the ball and makes a dash for the endzone. Here comes the other team! (Bouncy! Bouncy! Bouncy!) Oh! Look out! Tackle! You can’t even see the catchy guy for all the bodies! Now we have both teams on the ground. Oww! That has got to hurt!

(rolling laughter)

Football just got a lot more fun!

Hi, Luv! For some reason, I thought you might like this video, especially the “Mr. Happy” part.

Popping out for a little while. BBL

Hello, Tribe!

Done with work. Now getting decent clothes on and I’m off to get James from football practice, get something to eat and then head out to pool league playoffs. And here I thought I’d be on easy street with Wolfangil out of town!

No, Sojo, I have pool league playoffs. My mother will be keeping an eye on James this evening until I get home.

♠Lonewolf♠ - Have a great time at the playoffs!

Hey, Sojo. My answer to you looks out of whack now! LOL

Maybe I’ll be able to keep things straight sometime! :-)

Rmom, interesting song! Hope you are having a good evening. Do you think I have upset the football fans?

It Wasn’t Me - (Compared to other things you’ve upset.) Not at all!

Oh Good! Are you a fan Sojo?

What other things? I haven’t done anything to get upset about. Have I?

Oh, bed time.

Good Night Everyone!

Sort of a fan. Teams I’m interested in (college and pro) haven’t won much for some time. I don’t know of anything you’ve done to upset anyone.

(Hands behind back with fingers crossed)

Goodnight It Wasn’t Me - Have a good rest.

How could you all be discussing football without me?

Hi Little Sister - We pretended you were here! Hope your having a good day.

Good Evening, Sojourner & Little Sister

I just couldn’t wait, Little Sister. I was bursting with anticipation.

I’m watching the game now.

Same here.

I hope that it’s a good one.

So am I. No homework tonight?

No, no homework :-)

That’s why I am on early.

That helps to enjoy the game.

Lucky you. You can enjoy the game then

I just hope that it wont be one-sided.

I see that my Big Sister was having fun with the football talk.

SLAY THOSE VIKINGS!

Go SAINTS!!!

It Wasn’t Me was funny!

Yea Little Sister GO Saints!

The Auburn Miss state Game on ESPN is good too during commercials if you want non-stop football.

But I don’t think she’s watching the game right now.

Yea Bestest Big Sister, Luv, it wasn’t me

You are good with humor!

hopeandjoy, I’m an Irish fan, but I do like watching SEC, particularly games with Auburn and Alabama.

Grog I heard about the heavy rain and tornadoes in Texas That was quite a bit of damage and flooding, from what I saw on the news. Wasn’t it in Dallas? I don’t remember, because I was in a hurry this morning.

I’m not for either team but am for Brett Favre so I guess that makes me favor the Vikings. (Also my cousin traced my family tree back to 300 AD to who might be considered the first king of the Vikings sort of.)

**Hi to Grog and Sojo, Kab, Lonewolf, ML, RMom and all tribe.

Hi Hopeandjoy2.

Grog I like Notre Dame too. Have a nephew who graduated from there and also did graduate work.

I like ACC generally

Yes, south of Dallas and North around the Red River area as I understand it. I didn’t get much of it this morning, either and I had a very busy day, Little Sister

Good to see you stop by Doctor Toon.

I have only seen a few college football games.

Glad you don’t have serious flooding and hope your evening is slowing down. : >)

Must join my golfer now..he is for “the old man Farve” but not the Vikings….?? I don’t want him to get hurt.

It was mostly from the Pac-10 though.

Hi Doc Toon

Must dance out of here.

See you later Hopeandjoy2.

Why does that not surprise me, Doctor Toon? I haven’t seen a game televised, but I’m sure there are leagues. Though there can’t be much to look at with all that padding & helmets.

Hi Doc :-)

I must admit, I’ve never been a PAC-10 fan, Little Sister. I always thought it was over-rated and I can’t stand USC.

I prefer to watch an SEC game to any other, so if I have a choice, it’ll be SEC, if not the Irish.

I’m not really into the college sports, I’d rather be out and about when those game are on.

It’s good to be there in person and be able to get into it better though!

I’m out and about in the morning. If there isn’t a college game of interest, I won’t watch it for the sake of watching it, though.

eg: I will not watch Texas pound Rice.

Sojourner, I’m happy watching the games from the comfort of my home - particularly since I refuse to watch the Texans, and I can’t travel to Dallas every week-end either.

But Grog I like rice pudding. Yummy. yummy!

I woke up! I was surprised to find I can watch the game. This… . umm… can’t they just shut up and have them play?

Or Texas pound SMU.

I’ll watch Texas/OU though. I look forward to that one.

Good evening, tribeandall!

Hello, Rmom

Interception!

Grog - I saw KU games when I went there and have gotten to watch OU and OSU. Most of my relatives were OSU grads. I haven’t gone out of my way to see them but the atmosphere is a lot different than watching it on TV.

Sojo - I’ve only got my family tree back to 900AD. Strong suspicion that ancestors in Normandy were Vikings. Does “Torf Seigneur de Torville” sound like one of your ancestors?

Hi again It Wasn’t Me and Rmom.

Hi, Grog! Sojo - I agree that watching a football game in person is more exciting. I went to a few of WSU’s games back when they still had a team, and at least a couple times to OU games back in Barry Switzer days.

I keep on missing the game! I don’t think televised sports are good for the easily distracted

Hi Big Sister :-)

Luv - Did you enjoy the video? Are you old enough to remember when those events happened?

Sojourner, I went to college games when I lived in Montreal. I’ve even been to NFL games while living there in Foxboro, New Orleans, Dallas and Cleveland. I haven’t been to one since leaving Montreal. Games are getting far too pricey for my liking and players may end up striking in 2011.

I remember them, Rmom

I didn’t place the first event. How could anyone forget the Bobbet’s. Tanya Harding is fairly local, so you could not avoid knowing.

What’s the Canadian Football League like? I have never seen any of their games.

Little Sister, I call it the Children’s Football League. It’s a completely different game and the talent is not at the same level as the NFL.

Rmom - That dosen’t ring a bell with me. Geneology was something my cousin got into when he was in college. Has worked on it for decades. As he was a teacher he sometimes spent entire summers doing research and went to England and found some things. I don’t remember the mans name, I think it was 5 letters long. It was actually before the Vikings. At that time it was all seperate villages and he organized them together and led them. They turned into the Vikings latter. I think that was 65 generations before me.

I stopped watching the CFL when I was 17.

Hello Little Sister and Sister Kab Hello Rmom, Sojo, Grog, HopeandJoy, MontanaLady and Everyone!

Grog - I’ve never been to a pro game except for indoor soccer. That isn’t anything near like football etc. but we had a good team here. It’s fast pacced like hockey and was very exciting to watch.

Pop Very interesting!! Good football.

SOJO and Rmom...My older sister has traced our tree back only to 1500’s. I am primarily English, Scots, with some mixture of German and French and 1/32 Cherokee. We were here for the revolution and had family members involved in that. My Dad’s Mother came to USA from Bothwell Scotland when she was 13.

Sojo you went to KU? Oh my.

Grog - If I remember right, you’re just a little younger than I am. Aren’t you Doc’s age? Sojo - I only worked on researching genealogy between our sons’ births. I got lucky in that I found a book with my grandparents’ names in it, that went back to 900AD. Other than that, I’m doing good to have more than a generation before the one that immigrated. (One ancestor came on the Mayflower, and most fairly soon afterwards, so that means several generations back.) At least I think I’ve figured out the country of origin for all of my lines.

AUUGGHH! Must tear myself away from the football game to wash dishes.

I might loss my internet connection, or at least explorer. Although my back-up display quit it’s still uploading. Most of my utilites have quit since I haven’t rebooted all week. As long as it keeps making my backup I won’t turn it off, it should finish tonight.

Rmom, I think I’m a year or two older than Doc, if I remember correctly

* A Daring, And Gutsy Bold Prediction*

Lonewolf come October 7 I predict that your Chicago Blackhawks will loose to the Colorado Avalanche 2 - 3 in the NHL game on Versus

hope&joy - Mine either came from England (almost all), Holland (Separtists) or Canada when they came here. At least one of my ancestors from Holland was from what is now Belgium. Some of the ones from England had Scot, Irish or French (Normandy, hence Viking) ancestry. So now I just tell people my ancestors are from Western Europe, unless they want more details.

My cousin found a lot of famous people we are related to in the US like Abraham Lincoln. I think everyone can find famous people in their past. When he got it traced to an old blueblood line in Europe there were records that made it easy to trace it back a long way.

Wow, you’re looking way ahead there, Little Sister

My husband’s great-grandfather came from County Cork, Ireland. To get to my most recent immigrant ancestor, I have to go back before the Civil War. hope&joy - I’ve got the necessary DAR credentials, but never pursued it, as I’m not into snobbery.

Yes!!!

Sojo - They say that everyone now living with western European ancestry is descended from Charlemagne. My cousin sent me the genealogical path, but I misplaced his letter. I went surfing, and found some support for that, but I don’t know how to do genealogical research on-line to do a decent job. It is interesting, but I’ve got other things I’d rather spend my time working on.

Grog - Maybe you’re between Doc & me? I’m 51.

Grog - Yes, what ?

Rmom - It is interesting. As that is my mother’s side of the family I have thought of researching my father’s side. It doesn’t mean that much to me though and would take to much time.

Sorry, Rmom. I did intend to do a follow-up, but got distracted.

TD, Saints!

Rmom I know what you mean about the snobbery bit…and they seem rather “limited” as well..however, my nephew used the credentials to get into the SAR and also Sons of the Confederacy on my oldest sister’s husband’s side…I have no Confederacy connections but did have relatives living in Canada a couple of generations back in Montreal area…another group in Ontario and are still there.

I am older than a lot here, I think and Doc Toonis in his middle 40’s as is my son. I am right at 70 which astonishes me!!

Rmom as you know, the Scots and Irish were always skipping back and forth. I used to be an Irish auburn but I think the Scots have the auburn color too. Anyway the color came from my Mom.

My cousin didn’t just trace the family tree but tried to find out what he could about the people.He found out that it seems like Lincoln had an American flag tattooed on his chest.

I’ve shared my info with my cousins, but the only one who cared to spend time researching is my “as sharp as a ball bearing” brother, so his research didn’t add to the info I already had. (He’ll look at names in phone books in England, rather than researching records from the time frame our ancestors were there.) I thought I’d get into it while teaching history, but that work would be going in the opposite direction to the way we studied that subject. (We went from Creation forward, not from today backwards.) But I did put up the family tree info along with the history timeline, so it made European history more interesting. For instance, we figured out which side of the “War of the Roses” our ancestors were on. At least one of our ancestors participated in the Norman invasion, on the winning side. (Built Warwick Castle.) So, the genealogy was helpful in making history seem more real.

I’m calling it a night folks. I’m watching the final quarter in the comfort of my family room.

SOJOI think your right about the connection to Charlemagne as another family member has us traced back to him (but not proven) with the smatterings of obligatory royalty hither and yon.

Somehow it would seem the Flag tattoo would be mentioned more. I have read several books on Lincoln and have not come across this info.

Also, through our history, we got hooked on reading the “Brother Cadfael” books, and I read the whole series to the family. After we’d read them all, I checked some of the movies out from the library. Really neat for the period costumes, etc. However, the movie had a different villain than one in the book, and the movie villain would have been an ancestor, or at least a traceable cousin, so we were rather offended!

See you later Grog - enjoy the rest of the game!

Nite Grog

I’ve been to Warwick Castle, **RMOM It was one of my favorites.

Good night, Grog!

I think the tattoo was suspected from a study of his corpse. They found blue and red dye on his chest that may of been a flag. Not real history material but was maybe a fact.

Good evening all. Best Big Sister I liked your version of football and I’m no football fan. You make it sound more interesting. Not sure how I would trace my side or hubby’s side of family tree. Curious question did anyone see Good Morning America after 8am? Just wondering.

I’m just popping briefly. Oh hubby called me at work someone don’t know who broke our son’s driver side window, door locked, and stole a sterio unit out that was fairly new. Hubby did call it in and insurance, then had window replaced. Our son’s car was parked on street like it’s been parked for past 3 years. When we came here 3 years ago our daughter’s guy had his car parked on driveway and this I saw the car as it drove away heard a noise before driving away when morning came there was damaged to both front and back window.

hope&joy - I never made it to Europe, but my parents & sister toured the Warwick castle. Unfortunately, I found out AFTER they came back that Mom’s ancestor built the original Warwick castle. (I think it was of wood, and the stone version was done by a later descendant. Our line doesn’t go through the later descendant, because our line wasn’t the eldest son.) I just found my mom’s pictures of that trip, so I made sure to scan Warwick Castle pictures.

Go ahead back your football game. I’m going back to text book.

Hi Kab - Sorry to hear the bad news. I hope you and your family have a good time at the stste fair the next two weekends.

Sojo - I’ve never heard about Lincoln having a tattoo. I’m skeptical, since most Christians back then would not have gotten one. Hi, Kab! - Nope, don’t watch tv.

Rmom - It isn’t a proven fact just speculation from what was discovered I think. Certainly not text book material.

I think you are right RMom about the original wood. Amazing we have as many in one piece (stone etc) as we do. Remember the Windsor Castle fire destroyed a lot of the inside…a ceremonial hall if I remember.

Sojo Interesting info. to ponder and more evidence is always showing up on these things.

The dryer is calling. Byeeeeee

Sojo - I can’t say I’ve exhaustively researched Lincoln, but I’ve done a fair amount of studying him. Mom used to say we were related to him, because her grandma’s maiden name was Ann Rebecca Hanks. More of my genealogical research proved there was no direct link. All of my Civil War veterans are from the Union side, too. I don’t think any of my ancestors were from Kentucky. (Almost all Yankees - there were some in one of the Carolinas, but by the Civil War, my relatives on that line were in Minnesota!)

I guess my first statement shoudn’t have been so strong about the tattoo. It is a possibility from what was found.

Sojo - Sounds like there could have been other explanations besides a tattoo. Just saying from what I know of Christian culture from that era, and that Lincoln was a devout Christian, I’d be surprised if he had a tat.

From some of the people my cousin found in Europe it has made me interested in learning more of history over there

Rmom - That is a good point. That was also from a long time ago (the study) so their research ability wasn’t like it is today.

Grog and Little Sister - Looks like your team won!

If jarlyddie makes it to turnover she wants to post breakfast as this will be the only night she will be able to.

Time for my zzzzzz’s. Have a good turnover!

♪☼ P&L ☼♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Your looking up history is interesting and I never consider President Lincoln with a tatoo. But I remember on some show why Mr. Lincoln kept his beard, I know you where talking about ancestary, was due to a young girl asking him to.

Thanks The Sojourner I feel for my sister and hubby, he might have to later in week make more mustard, not like Frenches either, she hopes a friend of theirs daughter or mom will be able to help some during week. 12 hours long time. The three of us will go up refreshed then drag ourselves home. My mom will have a camp type folding chair she can rest on. They will have my hubby doing a lot of running. I will be repeating over and over.

Well then I shall look forward to jarlyddie menu

Sounds to me like BT will have a continental breakfast might be interesting reading in morning. Well I’ll say by and let you back to ancestry. How does one check out for family without being conned into paying? Be interested to see my mom’s side and dad’s side of family.

YAY! Way to go Saints.

Hey Little Sister before I go I’ve been reviewing my text books ahead of on-line class time. And it won’t be a scam either as I will go directly through Jr. college site. And not knowing when instructer will post find out on the day. You off from classes for Friday? I will check answer on am side. Night all

KAB From what little I know due to my sister, Birth certificates, Death certif, marriage, census records, and land sales, old family Bibles etc. We did have some ligitimate searches done by one person who was recommended on one of our lines. I like the stories more than names and dates as do most people.

Sorry to hear of your theft problems. Take care, KAB

Good talking with you RMOM, I’m gone for the night :+))

Kab - I don’t know how to do it on-line, as when I was researching it was before the internet. I did use an on-line bulletin board for genealogy, but that was so long ago, I don’t remember much. The Wichita public library downtown has a genealogy section. That might be a good place to start. They could help you, or at least point you in the right direction.

I need to head to bed as well. I agree, hope&joy - the stories are what makes it interesting!

No Sister Kab I have classes tomorrow.

I am off of work tomorrow though so I will be home early.

Good E-vening, everyone!

(in my best Hitchock imitation) It’s good to be back, even if I can’t stay long tonight.

jarlyddie, there’s always the option of posting another meal menu at a different time of day–some like to offer lunch or supper.

Sojo said, about 6 hidden animals ago

Rmom - I found out how hard it is to spot leopards when I got the Animal Planet network and watched a lot of the “Big Cat Diaries”. The African photos I posted has a large tree with a leopard in it showing how hard is is to see it.

There was also a Nature episode on Himalayan snow leopards where they showed how hard it was actually to spot the cats: they showed the full mountainside, all boulders and grey rocks, and then gradually pulled in to show the one leopard waiting in the midst of all the scenery.

Earliest my family tree has been traced to is the reformation, 1540s in Graubunden (now Switzerland). Seems even then one ancestor was staunchly Catholic–he moved to a new commune rather than become a Reformed Christian. He was also involved, apparently, in the delegation that made peace with Zwingli in 1529, as holder of the seal of one of the leagues.

bmonk Very wise and like your Hitchcock Imitation.

Have a good night and see peace and joy to one and all.