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what continent did your folks come from?

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where did your ancestors come from?

Africa
1
2%
Europe
49
78%
Asia
3
5%
Australia
0
No votes
North America
5
8%
South America
0
No votes
Zanzibar
5
8%
 
Total votes : 63

what continent did your folks come from?

Postby Brutillus » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:14 pm

I suppose we all came from Africa orginally, but I think of myself as Irish-American. what continent did your folks come from or have you been living in one place for a few thousand years?
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Re: what continent did your folks come from?

Postby Enitharmon » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:57 pm

Brutillus wrote:I suppose we all came from Africa orginally, but I think of myself as Irish-American. what continent did your folks come from or have you been living in one place for a few thousand years?


Isn't it funny how nobody ever describes themselves as English-American or British-American even though that's where the original settlers came from!
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Postby Melancholy Man » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:07 pm

My ethnic stock is likely the result of North Britain being raped and pillaged by half a dozen cultures.

Enitharmon wrote:

Isn't it funny how nobody ever describes themselves as English-American or British-American even though that's where the original settlers came from!


W.A.S.P. doesn't sound appealing.

What's puzzling me is Brutillus' impression that Zanibar is a continent.
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Postby Brutillus » Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:37 pm

What's puzzling me is Brutillus' impression that Zanibar is a continent.

of course I know Zanzibar isn't really a continent, but it was put on the poll as a choice for those who feel unsure of their origins, secretive, or just plain wierd.
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Re: what continent did your folks come from?

Postby Jameson » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:11 pm

Enitharmon wrote:
Brutillus wrote:I suppose we all came from Africa orginally, but I think of myself as Irish-American. what continent did your folks come from or have you been living in one place for a few thousand years?


Isn't it funny how nobody ever describes themselves as English-American or British-American even though that's where the original settlers came from!

Why would anyone what to come from England? America alone is bad enough
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Postby Tomsy » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:26 pm

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Postby jessia » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:56 pm

o, oops, ancestors.. in that case it'd be asia.
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Postby Enitharmon » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:11 pm

Brutillus wrote:of course I know Zanzibar isn't really a continent, but it was put on the poll as a choice for those who feel unsure of their origins, secretive, or just plain wierd.


Or Freddy Mercury of course - the only person anybody's ever heard of to be born in Zanzibar.
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Postby All_That_Jazz » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:11 pm

Europe. I'm Scots-Irish, (or maybe just plain Irish...we aren't really sure) French, German, and Russian/Jewish.
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Postby Lalura » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:15 pm

Enitharmon wrote:
Brutillus wrote:of course I know Zanzibar isn't really a continent, but it was put on the poll as a choice for those who feel unsure of their origins, secretive, or just plain wierd.


Or Freddy Mercury of course - the only person anybody's ever heard of to be born in Zanzibar.

It would be scary if he came on the boards. I'm not sure if I'd agree with that...
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Postby lostinthought451 » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:15 pm

Europe and North America. I'm part Ojibwa Indian. *feels special*

Ooh, and I have Irish, German, Scottish, Polish and Welsh in me.
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Postby Will » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:33 pm

Lalura wrote:It would be scary if he came on the boards. I'm not sure if I'd agree with that, purly because I was born on another continant even though I'm British through and through.



I'd be ~*iguana*~ terrified if he came on the boards, he's dead.

Rape and pillage for me too.
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Postby Max » Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:22 pm

I can honestly say that I don't have a ~*iguana*~ clue. British for a few generations, sure, with a bit of South American and Jewish thrown in for good measure.
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Postby Æsahættr » Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:22 pm

I'm 100% Scottish. At least 8 generations of my ancestors were born in Scotland.
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Postby Brutillus » Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:40 pm

I bet you're nuts about baskethilts and kilts...crazy (what was it somebody called them on here once?) Scots.
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Postby Enitharmon » Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:50 pm

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Postby Laura » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:02 am

I'm a good Swedish-Dutch girlie.

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Postby Trillian » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:31 am

I'm erm.. primarily Irish-Portuguese-Chinese.
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Postby Melancholy Man » Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:01 am

Æsahættr wrote:I'm 100% Scottish. At least 8 generations of my ancestors were born in Scotland.


Are you teuchter or sassenach lowlander?

Enitharmon wrote:

Or Freddy Mercury of course - the only person anybody's ever heard of to be born in Zanzibar.


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Postby eloquent » Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:57 am

Poorest gorbels of Glasgow, greenest outskirts of Leeds, lushest fields of county Kerry and er... Hull and Surrey. Though I myself am North London born and a veteran Hertfordshirite. I've been around.
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