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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: cpxxx on September 29, 2007, 09:26:44 PM
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We have all heard of the concept. We are all six degrees separated from everyone on Earth.
Which means, somehow or other I am connected to Lazs, Nilsen, Chairboy et al and everybody else on this forum. A horrifying thought, you will all agree. Although, I somehow like the idea, I'm connnected to Lazs.
But the one I am proudest of is Lee Marvin. It turns out from watching a documentary on TV tonight that I can trace a connection to Lee Marvin, ex Marine Corps, wounded on Saipan in WW2 and famous movie star. Buried in Arlington cemetary, simply as PFC Lee Marvin. Buried with full military honours in Arlington cemetary in 1987.
It came about because I took part in a film directed by John Boorman , the British director who directed Lee Marvin in several films and was a personal friend. My favourite story was the one where Boorman drove Marvin home from a drinking session. Marvin refused to get in the car and ended up on the roof. Inevitably the highway patrol stopped them, asking Boorman if he realised that Lee Marvin was on the roof of his car.:rofl
I played the part of a cop, ejecting a violent drunk from a hospital ER. John Boorman watched our rehearsal and suggested we were not vicious enough. So we brutalised the guy, luckily, it turned out he was the Father fo a real cop and he actually showed us methods of restraining him without hurting him.
My glamourous life is all very well.:rolleyes: But how can you guys demonstrate your connection to the greaat and the good. Remember, all of us can demonstrate the principle of six degrees of seperation. How many of you can trace a connection to George Washington or Winston Churchill or Hitler. Come on, fess up!
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My Dad tells me he was a second cousin to Clyde Barrow. My best claim to infamy.
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I'm Batman
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In that case, I am Captain Okita of the mighty vessel "Space Battleship Yamato"
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I am Spartacus.
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I'm Brian......and so's my wife........:noid
Wurzel
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my grandfather was a scottish blacksmith, he came over to help finish off parts of the canadian railway.
had a few relatives ww2, one was a medic on a troop ship, the other flew recon and was shot down in '42.
my brother served in the first gulf war, now we've had two from the wife's side that have been rotating in and out of Afghanistan since '02.
no moviestars or politicians...
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wasn't spartacus gay?
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Still is storchie....that interest you?
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Originally posted by storch
wasn't spartacus gay?
:rofl
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i must be Casanova then, dunno why i love all woman and all woman loves me :D
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Originally posted by Gh0stFT
i must be Casanova then, dunno why i love all woman and all woman loves me :D
No, not Casanova: probably Willie Nelson or Julio Iglesias.
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I'm a blood descendant of Rob Roy.
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I dunno about relations to anyone via separation. However, my great, great Grandfathers on both my dads and moms side both fought each other at the same battle in the American Civil War.
One was a Rebel and the other a Yankee at the Battle Above the Clouds in Tennessee at Lookout mountain. I guess I'm lucky they both made it out alive.
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My great great great grandfather ran for president 3 times, and came pretty damn close once.
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WJ Bryan?
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My mom tells me I'm seventh cousin to George Washington.
Mark
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Me
Guy I used to work with
His father in law
Camp commandant at Bergen Belsen
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
My colleague's father-in-law was in the British military, interrogated the Bergen-Belsen commandant after the war.
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On My dads side. John Smith, various guys in the Wehrmacht
My Moms Crazy Horses Medicine Man
My Wifes side various guys in the Waffen, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine, they will not let me research closer.
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Originally posted by Mark Luper
My mom tells me I'm twin brother to lyndon banes johnson.
Mark
fixed.
:D
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My wife is a descendant of Robert the Bruce, who, of course, knew William the Wallace.
By coincidence, there is a Lake Wallace near my home town. Go figure.
FREEEEEEEEEDOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
Regards, Shuckins
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I know a guy who prefers snow skiing to water skiing.
I know. It's amazing.
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Some of you are missing the point. Sherf got it right. It's not relatives although it could be. It's someone you know now, and through their connections can trace a line to someone else in history or living now, whether famous or not.
Another example.
Me
A work colleague
His German Mother
Hitler, whom she met.
By definition that means I am connected to Sherf via Hitler :O :rofl
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I am God :noid
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My Uncle was in the Combat Engineers running heavy equipment in the Pacific working on airfields. He was wounded twice, once on Tarawa and the second time more severely on Saipan.
Hmmm Me, my Uncle Tom, Lee Marvin also wounded on Saipan, guessing they ended up in cots next to each other oogling the nurses. Hello cousin cpxxx!
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yeah but we used to just say "small world aint it" whenever stuff like that happened.
It's part of life that keeps it interesting. Somehow.... I like "small world aint it" better than "6 degrees of separation".
lazs
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In 1946 my dad was in Bethesda Naval Hospital for gall stones. At one point they wheeled him on a gurney to some waiting area and placed him next to another gurney bearing Marine Corps general Chesty Puller. Puller asked my then 24 year old dad what he was in for. When my dad told him Puller replied, "Huh. Ya don't drink enough whiskey son!"
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Clyde Barrow’s cousin, Batman, Captain Okita, gay Spartacus, Brian, a scottish blacksmith, Casanova, a blood descendant of Rob Roy, a great, great Grandson of some civil war vets, a great, great Grandson of a guy who ran for president 3 times, the seventh cousin to George Washington, a guy who’s connected to Heinrich Himmler & Adolf Hitler, and a bunch of other semi-famous guys all posted in a thread that I posted in.
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So far....
Met:
Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon)
Van Halen
Eddie Money
Kevin Pollack
Ron White
Gallagher
Marshall Tucker Band
Sha Na Na
Joan Jett
Tiffany
Lt. Col. Greg Boyington
Lt. Gay
Anna, The von Richthofen Family Gardener
Patricia Kennedy Lawford
President Clinton's Step-Father
Richard Marx
The wife has me beat, however...she met President Clinton.
68ROX
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Originally posted by 68ROX
So far....
Met:
Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon)
Van Halen
Eddie Money
Kevin Pollack
Ron White
Gallagher
Marshall Tucker Band
Sha Na Na
Joan Jett
Tiffany
Lt. Col. Greg Boyington
Lt. Gay
Anna, The von Richthofen Family Gardener
Patricia Kennedy Lawford
President Clinton's Step-Father
Richard Marx
The wife has me beat, however...she met President Clinton.
68ROX
Nonsense. Gallagher is worth at least 3 Clintons and a Gore.
Don't even get me started on Sha Na Na.
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Originally posted by Ghosth
My Uncle was in the Combat Engineers running heavy equipment in the Pacific working on airfields. He was wounded twice, once on Tarawa and the second time more severely on Saipan.
Hmmm Me, my Uncle Tom, Lee Marvin also wounded on Saipan, guessing they ended up in cots next to each other oogling the nurses. Hello cousin cpxxx!
Exactly:lol which of course connnects you to Hitler:huh
Another one:
Me
My brother in law, who met:
Prince Charles who is the son of:
The Queen, who knew one:
Winston Churchill, who of course had a few connections of his own:
FDR/Stalin/DeGaulle/etc
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Originally posted by Neubob
Don't even get me started on Sha Na Na.
LOLOLOL! Sha Na Na... oh, how wonderful it was to see that one. LOLOLOL!:D :rofl
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anyone heard of Nathen Bedford Forest? came from the bad side of the family. southern general so i was told when i was a kid.
o and i forgot about Brett Farve. dont know why they spelled his name wrong tho, spossed to be Faver from Lafaver from french slave ship captain that came here in early 1600s. his group split around 1820 s.
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Originally posted by WWhiskey
anyone heard of Nathen Bedford Forest? came from the bad side of the family. southern general so i was told when i was a kid.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/natbio.htm
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tnx. mom, ill read it, looks very interesting
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Originally posted by WWhiskey
tnx. mom, ill read it, looks very interesting
He was indeed interesting. Any 'bad side of the family' stories are always more interesting anyhow.;) Definitely read about him.
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yep that is him! i was told that had he been givin a large enough comand there might have been a diffirent outcome to the war. i always thought it was kool to be rellated to him till later when more facts about him came out, he was a bad man in a lot of ways. but a military genius it was thought as well !
texas. <-------- amarillo f.y.i. jeff
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Originally posted by cpxxx
By definition that means I am connected to Sherf via Hitler :O :rofl [/B]
cpxxx, I am your father.
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My list is rather short....I don't get out much.
Bill Clinton (Banged my cousin's wife's college roommate)
Hillary Clinton (My gorge rises at the thought....but HEY, Arkansas is a small state)
Gregory Boyington
George Gay
Olivia Newton-John (hammanahammanahammanah;)
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I am caveman, my family before me are caveman.
I am, caveman...with the ability of cpu driven air combat.
Suck that down 200 million years of evolution.
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Ave, for I come from Caesar through a long line of kings. (not joking :D)
But 6 generations is short. Even in my little country we sometimes need 9 or 10 for a match.
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Originally posted by JB88
fixed.
:D
:D JB
I don't suppose I really understand this 6 deg of separation thingy. I kind of liked Lazs approach. But like NeuBob said, I know a guy that would rather ride a metric scooter than a Harley. And...
Mark
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Originally posted by RTR
I'm Batman
LMAO
GREAT commercial
Im Batman commercial (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JoX-HkOcEuE)
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ROFL!
RTR
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I have a pic around here some where, of me sitting on George Leroy Parker's lap. (when I was 7, at a family reunion) Seems he was my Grandmothers cousin.
Side note, the two white guys killed in Bolivia were really a pair of foreign mining engineers that the mine owners turned in for the reward......
Kevin
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Originally posted by WWhiskey
anyone heard of Nathen Bedford Forest? came from the bad side of the family. southern general so i was told when i was a kid.
Without a doubt, the best Confederate Calvary General of the war.
Jeb Stuart got more press, but fewer victories.
Forest was the first and last person wounded at the battle of Shiloh (wounded twice).
The only "bad" part of his life came after the war....being associated with...then totally disassociating himself the early KKK) after the klan turned violent).
He won the Battle of Brices' Cross Roads (Baldwin, MS), some 10 miles from my grandparent's home...I have 2 scarred bullets from that battle in my collection.
He was also the only General to openly chastise General John Bell ("Ole Wooden Head" Hood, over his handling of the Tennessee Campaign. Hood botched it...losing numerous battles and then retreating to Tupelo, MS where he was relieved by Lee.
I had 2 great-great grandfathers who fought for the Confederacy.....both survived the war.
68ROX
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My Grandad on my fathers side had an old luger pistol with a card that said "Pls accept zis gift, keep up the good vork, mum's ze vord, Adolf."
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-8/48257/Swoop2.gif)