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Cool Things About Your Family
If you know something cool or have an interesting story about any member(s) of your family and are willing to tell it here, please tell us.
I'm not going to tell mine just yet, I'd like to wait a bit.
I'm not going to tell mine just yet, I'd like to wait a bit.
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No, really.
When was the last time you saw your mother's cousin walk around in shorts with a flag print on it?
EDIT: If anyone has any questions about Jeopardy that a lot of people might not be privy to, such as Alex Trebek's true personality off-stage, just ask if you wish.
My mom is currently living with a partner, and they're very happy. My dad lives nearby, and the three of them all seem very friendly with one another. Talking with my dad in private, I can tell he's not just putting it on, either. I spent this Christmas and New Years with all of them and my brother, and we all had a blast.
TL;DR: My family is cool because they don't let drama drive them apart, no matter how big.
I feel, in some way, obligated to mention that my dad's dad was much worse than my dad so I'm hoping I won't be as bad when I reach that age.
1. My mom gave birth to me, one of the best things ever.
2. When they found out I was gay, the general reaction was "Why were you so afraid to tell us? It's cool." and 0 drama on their part after that.
3. Just about everything else. I love my family. There's a reason why I spend so much time with them.
As a side note to that, my dad is also a co-founder in a new company that could become the next big thing in text communications, so that's pretty awesome.
Historically, there is one cool aspect to my family that we know about. On my dad's side of the family, way back during the Revolutionary War, my family actually owned the farm at Valley Forge where George Washington had his headquarters during that terrible winter. That's a pretty unique thing to have.
One of my grandfathers (who sadly died when I was very young) was a submarine captain during the early parts of the Cold War. I'm also a descendant of the person who invented the Ukelele.
He won:
1964 US Team Championships
1965 World Championship in Queensland, AUS
1975 Sr. Division slalom, jump and overall Champ
Had 4 national titles in slalom
1976 Set Slalom record
1978 National titles in slalom, jump and overall
5 Years in Mens IV and won twice in slalom
1986 at 47yrs became the first to run a full pass at -38 in the south central region.
A few members of my family put together some video of his various shows also.
Beyond that not much interesting here, parents do science/teach, my farfar was Knighted in Denmark, my grandfather (mothers side) was Native American, not much recently really.
Well, as most we came to America just like most blacks, but in the 1800's most likely post civil war there was a town in Tennessee. It was Gadsonville and my ancestors lived there. The details are fuzzy, but the gist was that someone wanted the land and was willing to pay. One brother wanted to money and the other thought they should stay. Over the dispute the brother that wanted to sell killed the other. It resulted in killers half of the family staying there and the victim half later settling down in Washington D.C. My family has been in this city for generations, and am the latest in that line to live here.
A lot of the men served in the military and fought in the old wars.
A lot of the women in my family take up medicine as a profession. That's cool and useful.
My Grandfather was the best black bowler in the city and the first to bowl a 300 game. Thus all the children bowled. My Mother was a league bowler too, but had to quit due to injury. I suck at bowling. Lineage means nothing here. :P
My mother used to be a model. Nothing big time, but it ended when she starting hanging with the bad crowd. She was locally popular for a time and was the prettiest in her high school and the family. She was a very wild outspoken women for better and worse. I like to think the better parts of her rubbbed off on me.
- They founded, built, owned and operated the Red Range butter factory, as well as owning masses of land all along Red Range, which at one point was a massive dairy farm in NSW, exporting butter to Britain, and being supplied by roughly 100 local dairy farms at the time
- They were the ones who first imported and raised what is now one of Australia's most popular beef cattle.
- I'm related to most of the Cirsons in the UK, And every single Cirson in australia.
- They owned a champion racehorse called Gayboy. Don't start.
- At one point, they owned most of the Southside of Brisbane, though long ago - by the time of my great grandfather, it was only most of the Mt Gravatt area
- My mother used to be a champion hockey player, and a champion swimmer. She nearly went to the olympics for both events before a knee injury and surgery ended her career.
- My grandfather was imprisoned in an Japanese POW camp, and worked on the Burma railway during the time
- My father has been inducted into indigenous society(as have I), and received his paints from the Mt Isa Mob. He also discovered some ancient rock-paintings.
Also, not my family, but one of my girlfriend's korean great-grandfathers once stabbed a tiger to death, while drunk, on his way home from a bar.My mom is super funny sometimes. We were talking about the snowstorm and asked how much snow we got and if we still had power. I told her we got a little over a foot, and that we are fine, but further upstate Monroe got killed. To which she replied, "Oh, no! Is that someone's dog?" (Monroe is a place in New York.)
Fixed it now.