On 6/23/2013 1:19 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>> On 6/22/2013 12:45 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>> I got to thinking about this later. It is pretty much the same in UK.
>>> Many Scots hate the English. Most will not show it, but if you hear
>>> those when there are no English around ... otoh most English love the
>>> Scots. Work that one out
>>>
>>> We get to see that in action. Himself is Scots born, while I am of
>>> Scottish extraction so we are treated as Scots with friends and
>>> neighbours, even though we have English accents. We get the other side
>>> of it when away from them ...
>>>
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>> Ethnic identity is a funny thing. I always thought my wife's family
>> was all Irish but she later tells me that she had some Scottish blood
>> flowing through her. It doesn't change anything about a person but I
>> look at her at a slightly different angle now.
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> Do you really??? How interesting) You need to be careful, she might
> don a kilt and start doing a Highland Fling around her kitchen and start
> cooking haggis for your dinner)))) If I were you I would keep a
> sgian dubh handy, just in case <g>
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>> In the end, it doesn't matter.
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> No it doesn't. What matters (to me anyway) is not if they have Martian
> blood but the kindness a person has in their heart.
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> Her people came to America early on and
>> planted roots that ran deep and they helped build this country. We
>> have a bill of sale for a bitch and child that one of her grandfathers
>> from the mid-1800s purchased when humans could be bought and sold. Her
>> family came to raise hell in the new country and they've been raising
>> hell every since.
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> So, does she raise hell? btw how sad and dehumanising to call a
> woman a 'bitch' It is good those days are past when the selling of
> human beings was acceptable.

The bill of sale is pretty much like one you'd get these days if you
bought a lawnmower or some firewood i.e., an accurate description of the
machine or lot and the price paid. It's a startling document.

My wife is not one for raising hell but her brothers tended to be wild
rovers when they were younger. They were hard to pin down and would move
around from state to state. Even the brother that was married and a
quadriplegic would get in his car and disappear for a while. Those guys
just had to keep on moving on. BD may have been referring to her brother
as the "wildest cat from Montana" in the tune "Three Angels."

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>> https://yesteryearsnews.wordpress.co...a-desperadoes/
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> Fascinating stuff!!! I've saved it to read properly later, thanks
>

The funny part is that some folks from Montana considered Floppin' Bill
a guy that got rid of the rustlers and therefore, a hero, but I never
saw a movie where John Wayne tied a mill stone around a guys neck and
then throw the unlucky sod into a river.