John,

You're gonna like this....

Last weekend I attended a concert chior in which several of my cousins from my mothers side of the family were singing in. One of these cousins does a lot of family tree stuff. At the gathering afterwards it was brough to my attention that this side of the family is related to the future Queen. Kissin cousins.

Guess that makes me part of the Royal line!!!! Camilla is my cousin.

Good GOD....your part POM

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
Guess that makes me part of the Royal line!!!! Camilla is my cousin.

Brave girl to admit to that in public. I hope you don't look much like her!

Frans

No, I don't look like her but you know she hunts..... So she can't be all that bad. That's how Charlie met her, I think.

We are related on French lineage (mostly rogue French Canadians) that we both share. Looks like I also share the same with Madonna and Celine Dion.

Ann

And you weren't invited to the wedding!!!

Shame on them to leave a cousin out. Royal standards are really falling.

PS I agree with you, Camilla is probably a better future queen because she is a "country woman", hunts and shoots.

That dill Diana was a lost cause.

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Originally posted by Bakes:
Good GOD....your part POM

That is a bit rich coming from an Australian!

I thought all your ancestors were hand picked by Pommy judges anyway!!

Just goes to prove, you can pick your friends but you can't pick your rellies

I'm related to royalty .....I've got a cousin who's a "QUEEN"

HA! Saeed, good one!

Bakesly, now treat your Royals with respect!

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That is a bit rich coming from an Australian!

I thought all your ancestors were hand picked by Pommy judges anyway!! jump

Lies slander I protest ! no Judge would have been game to even touch my ansestors! They were sent by proxey so he did'nt even have to look at em ! after all he'd just eaten!

Hello;
Well, if we go back far enough, we're all related by way of Adam and Eve.
Grizz

Saeed

You are mistaken. While a percentage of Australians have British roots and some also have British ancestry, many of us are from elsewhere unassisted by the penal code of the British Isles.

I'm pure Prussian. Not many could say that today seeing it ceased to exist quite a few years ago (1945)!

Some of us are even New Zealanders.

Oh Camilla! I thought it said Carmello!

Calling an Australian a POM.....thems fight'n words Saeed

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We are related on French lineage

Good GOD....your part FROG

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Well, if we go back far enough, we're all related by way of Adam and Eve

Not me Grizz....Judging by the hair on my old mans back, my ancestors swung down from the trees looooooong before Adam was a boy.

Thats the beauty of Family Trees - you can make what you want from them.

Most folk use em for research -but most Aussies use theirs for roosting purposes of an evening...

As one Kiwi once told me.

A Kiwi's family book or family tree is only half accurate. The mothers are probably true but you never know how accurately the fathers are recorded.

I can trace my family history back to Danish Vikings and Germans in the 14th century, but unfortunately I am not related to those in-bred British Royals -who are hardly Poms at all anyway .

To change the subject - have you ever noticed how everyone who believes in reincarnation has been a member of royalty in a previous life ? No-one ever lays claim to being a 17th century chimney cleaner or night cart worker . Why is that ?

Muzza

Very true. My previous lives didn't include royalty just world renowned artisits, great generals, and famous scientists.

The cheek of these "re-incanationists" to claim nobility. Sheesh.

Thats it! I have you figured out - well , as much as any human can...

You are a Hari Krishna!!!

I saw a bunch of those twits banging and chanting away last night.

I haven't yet reached Buddhahood though.

If I had a choice of religion I would choose Ancient Norse. Drinking, feasting, wenching, fighting. If you die in battle you get carried by winged warrior Nordic maidens to Valhalla where you do more wenching, drinking, feasting & fighting.

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Drinking, feasting, wenching, fighting.

Sounds like the yearly Airmans ball

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Originally posted by NitroX:
I saw a bunch of those twits banging and chanting away last night.

I haven't yet reached Buddhahood though.

If I had a choice of religion I would choose Ancient Norse. Drinking, feasting, wenching, fighting. If you die in battle you get carried by winged warrior Nordic maidens to Valhalla where you do more wenching, drinking, feasting & fighting.

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by Bakes:
Good GOD....your part POM

That is a bit rich coming from an Australian!

I thought all your ancestors were hand picked by Pommy judges anyway!!

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:We are related on French lineage (mostly rogue French Canadians) that we both share. .

Ya want to have problems here, don't ya?

Edmond,

Don't you Parisians cast a downward eye upon French Canadians?

Anyway, I am mostly French according to my family tree. Some Nordic in there too.

When I write 'here', I mean AR boards.
I am not Parisian anyway, I happen to live in parisian area and it's easier to spot Paris on a map for foreigners, maybe I'll be more precise since we have now an Accurate Reloading French Chapter.

Parisian casting a downward eye upon French Canadians, not really.
They do enjoy in fact the way they speak as I can notice when my cousin is here.

You would not recognize my accent as I don't speak any French.

No more problems with merkin accents, I started my first stay in US in the Deep South mainly in Bama where I needed aspirin daily then Texas..

Aspirin daily???

Well, I don't have a southern accent either.

I had learned the royal english and I had no problem understanding HM the Queen but when I had to force my attention to catch and try to understand Bamerspeak, I got headache daily.
One month after, I found out that I had no more problem to undestand someone in the deep south and at the end of the second month I could catch almost everything whenb watching a movie.

Some years later, I married, she was not French and I started to forget some French and a lot of German up to the point I started thinking in English, dreaming in English, LOL.

See, that's very simple to master a foreign language finally.

Wanna learn French ? http://www.rambouillet.com/

Nice site, Edmond, but at this point in my life I don't want to go into debt by going away to school again. That would definitly make me need many aspirins. The buildings there are fascinating, would make for a neat place to visit though. I take it you live near there? Are you still married to the non-French lady?

I can count to ten in Spanish and know a few of their words.

Mucho dineros!

Hola amigios!

Muy grande!

No hablo Espaniol!

Enough to get me by.

That's a nice place and teachers are good. It was my wife's turn to need aspirin, poor her.
She did not know one word of French and Rule N° 1 is ' Don't use your mother tongue or any other common language' ..
After two years, she could enter university and she kept a slight trace of accent that I find lovely.

This city is a nice place in the middle of one of the most beautiful french forest. I am not far from the institute and the presidential castle where some famous people slept. I could see George Bush Sr helicopter landing from my dining room window right after Gulf War One.

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
I can count to ten in Spanish and know a few of their words....Enough to get me by.

You forgot a couple of key ones:

Uno mas cerveza por favor.

Donde esta el bano?