Col_Pladoh said:I have a bit of Welsh (also Irish) heritage, and the English includes Cornish--my grandmother could bake a mighty fine pasty ans great leg of mutton. Thus with the Swiss, French, and Dutch included I am a typical American hybrid. Never mind about some of mu grandchildren, but their ancestry would fill a good part of the UN
Cheerio,
Gary
Col_Pladoh said:I have a bit of Welsh (also Irish) heritage, and the English includes Cornish--my grandmother could bake a mighty fine pasty ans great leg of mutton. Thus with the Swiss, French, and Dutch included I am a typical American hybrid. Never mind about some of mu grandchildren, but their ancestry would fill a good part of the UN
Cheerio,
Gary
Col_Pladoh said:I have a bit of Welsh (also Irish) heritage, and the English includes Cornish--my grandmother could bake a mighty fine pasty ans great leg of mutton. Thus with the Swiss, French, and Dutch included I am a typical American hybrid. Never mind about some of mu grandchildren, but their ancestry would fill a good part of the UN
Cheerio,
Gary
AGFlynn said:What's the provenance of Gygax? Sounds kinda like a Welshman had a nasty high-speed collision with a Roman on the Appian Way.
Or maybe an allergic centurion: "What's your name, soldier?"
"Gygax."
"Bless you."
First, as a "Columbus Method" typist, I comisserate in regards need for editing :\Shadeydm said:
The son of Odin and the earth goddess Jord, married to a giantess?haakon1 said:They do alright with the Norse stuff, though. The episode where Viking warriors with swords and modern USAF Special Forces with the other kind of claymores are fighting aliens with blasters, that was cool. At least to me!
Watch the episode of Season 1 on DVD, and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by Thor's true identity.
The old Celtic areas of the UK still have some nationalistic movements in them indeed.haakon1 said:You're part Cornish? No way! I don't think I've ever met any other American who was, but I did hear tale once that the "Badger" nickname for Wisconsin had something to do with Cornish miners there. Who knows?
Do you know about Cornish nationalism? British politics was my field in grad school (when I became a Badger), and it turns out, much to everyone's surprise, there's a serious but very small Cornish nationalist movement, about reviving the language and even trying to bring back the Stannery Parliament from the Middle Ages as a devolved assembly, like the Welsh Assembly and the Scottish Parliament, for the Southwest (Cornwall & Devon). The party is called Mebyon Kernow, which means about the same thing as Plaid Cymru does on the other side of the water.
Definitely worth keeping an eye on, as they scored 1.7% of the vote in Cornwall in the last British parliamentary election.
All of which leads me to yet another Greyhawk question: Is Onnwall named after the fair land of (very few of) our ancestor's birth? I certainly treat it my game as being Cornish -- tin, pirates, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebyon_Kernow
http://www.mebyonkernow.org/Public/Stories/89-1.shtml
The Jedda family moved here from the UP--incidentaly I have been to the UP, a lovely place, Lake in the Clouds and all--owned and operated the Stop & Shop Liquors shop downtown. When their two sons took it over they added a deli section and made and sold excellent pasties. I was indeed sad when they sold the place, and the new owners changed the nature of the business.Voadam said:
