1. What can you say in bed and also at the dentist?
Spit!
2. What name would you give to your country if you had the chance?
From Groucho – Freedonia
3. What’s on top of your fridge right now?
A baking stone and some racks and cookie trays.
4. What perfectly normal words cause you to giggle like a five-year-old when you hear them?
Do do and head.
5. What was the most interesting thing you learned about your ancestors?/strong?
I once did a deep dive on ancestory.com, and no one in our family knew much about my maternal grandfather, so I traced his family way back to medieval Wales and was a flag bear for some king or prince (Probably Dafydd ap Gruffydd)
1) Bite down.
2) Baby ‘murica
3) Some bread items, salt and pepper
4) Pork and beans.
5) Our ancestry.com experience showed us that we have a Jewish lineage on my mom’s side. I am an Italian, dutch, jewish mutt-like thing.
What can you say in bed and also at the dentist?
Yup, that’s gonna leave a mark. (or) Ooh boy, this is certainly going to cost me a fortune, isn’t it?
What name would you give to your country if you had the chance?
The Promise of America
What’s on top of your fridge right now?
Empty egg cartons. See, we college them for Linda who has chickens. But she doesn’t have a farm. If you saw how many cartons were up there, you would think her name was Linda Tyson-Farms. For those of you reading, don’t go up there or look up there. It is nasty. There is a layer of schmutz on top of your fridge from cooking and not being cleaned that is unholy.
There is likely a lot of other stuff up there, too. I ain’t lookin’, and I don’t want to know.
What perfectly normal words cause you to giggle like a five-year-old when you hear them?
Moist. And panties. Separate, they are terrible words. Together, i just realized, sound dirty. Yup, see now I am all turned on. God, you guys are gross. Wait… sorry. Re-read the question. Shoulda read it twice before going off on a tangent. You know the rule of building? “Measure twice, cut once”. It is one of the truest sayings I know of. For being a writer, there needs to be a version of this. Anyhow, my point is these words alarm me now. When I was 5? Jesus, man… that was 46 years ago. I can’t tell you much about that time from memory. Grew up happy in Phx, had a very old beagle named Beau. Like… that dog was born at age 15. I think he came with us from Buffalo. Used to sleep in the street. Beagles are small dogs, generally speaking. The dog I recall was a monster. Holy moley I just remembered I have a pic of him! I on the far right below.0061
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ok, what were we talking about again? Silly words? Who cares? Look at this pic! This is gold, Jerry! The two on the left are my older brothers who are both still alive and both still in Phx. Just saw them over xmas. The mountain you see in back? That is Camelback mountain. Here is the house I grew up in.
What was the most interesting thing you learned about your ancestors?
It’s all rumor, sadly… but we are apparently mostly Canadian farmers. I say rumor because I haven’t done the 23 and me genetic thing. I am totally open to it, now. For a long time, i wasn’t. From a legal and privacy perspective, it still scares me. It’s giving a corporation control and ownership of your info. Even worse? Just last night there was a story on the local evening news about a HUGE hack at 23 and me. Imagine you find out you have several children in Flagstaff that you never told your wife, Renee, about. BUT… at this point in my life the positives outweigh the negatives. I’d love to know more about my family’s past. I know a lot of my brother’s wives do this stuff. I think its more popular with women for sure… like scrap-booking for a new generation.
My biggest fear is that I take that test and find nothing. The cold hard reality that I am just 10th generation white dude. Boring. Tell me I am a quarter black, and that my mom was running with the Black Panthers in the early 70s. God, that would be SO cool. It would also explain my lifelong obsession and love of the Panthers. and why I get cards from a mysterious ‘Uncle Eldridge’.
1) “Are you going to fill up this dirty, naughty cavity?”
2) Yourmom. (I just want to hear about the fights that break out in other countries when tourists are asked where they’re from.)
3) Stacks of papers that I moved from the dining room table over the years.
4) Come and head
5) I’ve never done an ancestor search. I should since my father was adopted. I would like to know what my real last name would be if he had been raised by his birth parents.