How recently did your family arrive?

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Sentiment returned SN

I thought you are Irish

[toranokaze]

My most resont ancester that I have found came over form Spain about 5 generations

My earliest must have crossed the ice bridge from present day Russia into present day Alaska

[Pie]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Aren't you South Asian?

Yeah, but bigots don't usually care which version of brown skin you are wearing. They just pick their favorite slur and sling it at you.

They aren't too discriminatin' in their discriminatin'.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Caramel Pie.

[Nirvana]

Originally Posted by Pie

1978. All of us.

Though we have been accused of being 'wetbacks', I arrived on a 747.

May I see your papers?



signed
Jan Brewer

[Nirvana]

Sorry I helped ask for papers its in my blood [jk] sort of my parents came here in the '50s from Germany. But my grandmother married a gentile. No swastikas in my family tree.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Pie

1978. All of us.

Though we have been accused of being 'wetbacks', I arrived on a 747.

Bit of a swim, wasn't it?

[Tulip]

We were in Camp Pendleton for about a year then came to the mainland in '76.

[lookout123]

the swedes came in 1890's.
the scots came in 1850's.
the dirty stinkin injuns were always here.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Tulip

We were in Camp Pendleton for about a year then came to the mainland in '76.

I didn't know Camp Pendleton is an island.

[Tulip]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I didn't know Camp Pendleton is an island.

Geez, could've just tell me straight. I was only 5 then, got no idea where that place was. All I could remember from the adults were the two words "Camp Pendleton." Thought it was an island. Felt desolated enough -- slept and ate in tents and used outhouses. I vaguely remember bushes in the lower lands and we were told not to stray to because there were snakes. Anyways, we settled in Santa Monica where it felt like civilization.

Because of your response, I googled Camp Pendleton. I had thought we stayed in Guam.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin

I thought you are Irish

BTW I missed the wink off the last post, it reads far more aggressively than I meant it to!

No, I'm 100 % British, and count myself English.
After all I have never lived in Ireland, neither has my mother and 3/4 of my Grandparents were English.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by classicman

@ HLJ - was waiting for that one - Outstanding sir - Give yourselves a pat on your backs.

I would if I could move my arms.

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

BTW I missed the wink off the last post, it reads far more aggressively than I meant it to!

No, I'm 100 % British, and count myself English.
After all I have never lived in Ireland, neither has my mother and 3/4 of my Grandparents were English.

OK then, Doyle. fuck you

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Tulip

Geez, could've just tell me straight. I was only 5 then, got no idea where that place was. All I could remember from the adults were the two words "Camp Pendleton." Thought it was an island. Felt desolated enough -- slept and ate in tents and used outhouses. I vaguely remember bushes in the lower lands and we were told not to stray to because there were snakes. Anyways, we settled in Santa Monica where it felt like civilization.

Because of your response, I googled Camp Pendleton. I had thought we stayed in Guam.

5, excuses, excuses.
A few years back I visited the neighborhood I lived in until 3. That huge backyard between the rows of houses, the one that was too far to walk to the neighbors... is about 50 feet.