Friday, August 31, 2007

Morgans are Pirates

  • Check it out. Source is here if you care (you don't).

6 Last Names Reveal Pirate Ancestry
Shiver me timbers! If your surname is
Morgan, Kidd, Teach, Rackham, Bonny or Read, there's a good chance there is a
pirate lurking in your family tree.
People who have these names could very
well be related to Britain's most famous pirates, reports London's Telegraph. Of
course, proving that will take some genealogical sleuthing, a difficult task
since pirates rarely kept permanent records of their nefarious backgrounds.
Still, the payoff is well worth it. "What could be more exhilarating than
finding you are related to one of Britain's most colorful characters?" Abigail
Baker of the genealogy research organization Achievements Ltd., asked the
Telegraph.

  • I was planning to try to put a video clip in my blog today, but apparently you can't (very easily, anyway) "pirate", if you will, clips off of YouTube. So here is a link instead, to the video of the day, "Stephen Fry's Guilty Pleasures" (part 1 of 3) which had me trying desperately to smother my sniggers while watching at work. And it makes me want to start a list of my own guilty pleasures. I'll start with 1) watching "Stephen Fry's Guilty Pleasures" at work, 2) stealing the other SAIC division's miniature candy bars to eat while doing item #1. I will ponder on this some more and add to the list as they come to me. Feel free to list yours in a comment.
  • Aubrey is at King's Dominion today. Darn her all to heck.
  • Rebekah is cleaning the house. She darns Aubrey all to heck too.

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