Europeans, can you tell each other apart?

[skysidhe]

The info I found was all I could find. I do not know why Jewish is paired with polish and russian unless it was to denote the geographic location.

I am of English/Irish - Irish/ Cherokee decent and further up the line there is German/English and Cherokee/Irish....so

I get what you are saying. I am typing half asleep anyway.

Just ignore me until July.

[Sundae]

It's just a bugbear of mine, and totally predates the Cellar, so feel free to ignore me - I've been a pedant about it for years now

Why July?
Is it because you are sending me a bithday card?

[skysidhe]

No, no your comments didn't bother me at all!

You are fine.

July is the month I will no longer have classes that interfere with other obligations.
I'm about half baked most of the time.

July is a great month to have a birthday! but I am terrible with snail mail. Leave your email addy here on the board or somewhere, and we'll all spam you with e-cards, I'm sure.

[limey]

Originally Posted by Sundae

It's just a bugbear of mine, and totally predates the Cellar, so feel free to ignore me - I've been a pedant about it for years now

...

I have a similar bugbear linked to the "Who Do You Think You Are?" TV programme. Each celeb (that I've seen) is trying to prove a link to a particular culture, and once they've found what they're looking for they stop. What about all the other grand- or great-grand-parents and their cultural input?
Meh, we're all the same about that .... (I focus on the musical great great grandfather to the detriment of the others in my family tree ...)

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Johnny Depp
Ethnicity:
Cherokee, Irish, German

Huh, I'd always thought Johnny Depp looked at least half Cherokee--but according to the interwebs his mother is Cherokee/Irish, while his father is German. The Cherokee-features gene must be very dominant.

[footfootfoot]

If you're a Russian in the hallway what are you in the bathroom?






European.

[bluecuracao]

I like that version a lot better than the one I'd heard:

If you're American when you go in the bathroom
And American when you come out of the bathroom
What are you when you're IN the bathroom?
European!

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

Huh, I'd always thought Johnny Depp looked at least half Cherokee--but according to the interwebs his mother is Cherokee/Irish, while his father is German. The Cherokee-features gene must be very dominant.

Yes, very dominant. This is my family. All brown eyed except for my mom. She got the blue eyes.

Except for my grandmother's nose,I don't look like any of them. Genetics is a funny thing. My sis looks like our mom and my sis's daughter looks like my sis.

It is really hard to guess someone's ethnicity. My dear grandmother would always try to make me feel better by saying, I look like the Fry's. ( but I've never seen the Fry's )

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

I like that version a lot better than the one I'd heard:

If you're American when you go in the bathroom
And American when you come out of the bathroom
What are you when you're IN the bathroom?
European!

yeah, it's quicker and has twice as many puns in it.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by glatt

Me neither, but TinEye tells me they are Neil Gaiman and Chris Cornell.

Who?

[casimendocina]

Originally Posted by limey

I have a similar bugbear linked to the "Who Do You Think You Are?" TV programme. Each celeb (that I've seen) is trying to prove a link to a particular culture, and once they've found what they're looking for they stop. What about all the other grand- or great-grand-parents and their cultural input?
Meh, we're all the same about that .... (I focus on the musical great great grandfather to the detriment of the others in my family tree ...)

I saw a couple of shows in the Australian series where they found some quite surprising information about one of Maggie Beer's ancestors. Turned out there was a bigamist in the family. In another one (actor Ben Mendelson), they hit a couple of dead ends and all of their original assumptions were wrong.

[DanaC]

Often the place they stop is where the research trail goes cold (usually around the 16th to 18th centuries). And they may well prioritise the lineage that seems to have greater legs and more interesting tales.

I think my favourite one was with a British comedian, Alexander Armstrong. He'd always denied to his kids that they were truly 'posh'. Turned out his ancestors bankrolled a couple of Kings, acted as international spies for the Crown, and owned half of England back in the mists of time.

[morethanpretty]

My mother's great aunt may have fed lunch to an infamous wild west gang. Or maybe fed lunch to a bunch of grizzled guys claiming to be an infamous wild west gang in order to scare a little girl into feeding them instead of running out to the fields to her parents.

(I can't recall the name of the group at this time, sorry)

[kerosene]

All of my ancestry is the same. German from Russia. I can trace some of them back to the 14th century. I have wondered from time to time if any of my ancestors mixed with a Russian here or there, but the grandparents were adamant that that did not happen. Regardless, some of my ancestors were short, with dark hair and dark eyes and some were tall, fair skinned, blue eyed, blonds. I don't know if I look German or not, but like I mentioned in another thread, whilst in Prague, I was mistaken for a German a few times.

Husband is German/Cherokee/Cheyenne/Irish, but he definitely has the look of a Norwegian. He says he has a tiny bit of African, too, but I am not sure I believe it. I would never guess he had any Native American heritage, but it is definitely there.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by kerosene

I would never guess he had any Native American heritage, but it is definitely there.

This leads me to a lot of wondering,
collection of scalps?
penchant for buffalo?
really good at tracking?
gets drunk too easily?
sells turquoise?

what?