Who Do You Think You Are finally traces a family tree all the way back to God!

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ROFL at tonight's episode with Matthew Pinsent, the rower. Found an aristocrat in his ancestry, toddled along to the College of Arms, where the herald demonstrated that if you go back from Big Cheese X far enough you get to King Edward (Longshanks -the one that 9/10 of English people can claim as a relatively anyway, IIRC) and if you go back from him you get to Cain, Abel, Adam, Eve.. and God!

I can see that - he is quite godly after all.

And he's got Steve Redgrave on his left (Jesus) and the other chap on his right (Holy Spirit) so it's ALL making sense.....

At least it wasn't Keith Chegwin.
Would have had to hand back my confirmation certificate!

Yes, I enjoyed tonight's episode. But was distracted wondering what had happened to his face; he looks so podgy.

Yes, we predicted Jesus before that 12 year old historian told him about it.

Yes Tinker, I thought that although he no longer trains intensively he has clearly found it harder to stop eating intensively. Poor chap

I have actually met Matthew Pinsent and held his gold medal!

Is that a euphemism, tortoise?

pmsl

I flicked to that channel, didn't have a clue who the bloke was, seemed dull (sporty, fair enough) and switched over.

Did they find a photo of God for him?

Yes they did Pointydog and you could see the family resemblance.

get away

Ironically, pointy, he got to Dukes, Queens and Kings via an ancestor they knew about but had mistaken for somebody far less impressive. They wanted to claim the founder of a big company for an ancestor, their actual ancestor had the same name but was an aristocrat who played a significant part in the Napoleanic wars and was related to all sorts of Big Cheeses.

I liked the way when the bloke said he could go backe to God, MP just said "Oh stop" - very funny.

He is a bit posh anyway though isn't he? (MP - not God, obviously )

so his ancestry were a load of dullards and this programme was yawnsome? Is that what you're saying?

I ended up wathcing cars Camera Action

Well, every single uncle having being educated at Winchester does make one a tad uppper middle class, I guess.

Well, the confusingly-named ancestor (William Jardine) was a naturalist and buddy of Chrles Darwin while the ancestor who played a significant part in the Napoleonic wars was George Anson. Both on his mother's side but Jardine wasn't descended from Anson (trying to remember what the relationship actually was, now -- someone married Andon's daughter, but I'm not sure whether it was Jardine or someone else).

There was some interesting stuff about the Somme and about the opium trade in Shanghai. And I did like MP's reaction to the imaginative medieval scroll that showed him descended from Wotan and Adam...

I slept for the middle 20 minutes - very enjoyable too.

The best one I ever saw was Babs Windsor. She had poor folk and rich folk in her ancestry. I like to think that we all do.

I liked Pinsent's remark, when he was told he could trace his line back to God: 'Well, we all can'.

cars camera action had me mesmerised. Especially when the lad stole a big digger.

ooooh now that does sound entertaining. Was there a very low speed chase?

No, sorry, scratch that, if he wasn't related to God, I'm not interested.

exactly!

The voice over made some overly sarky comment about it being the slowest chase ever

I found the start quite, well emotional really, his great uncle was an officer at 18 years of age, and in the front line at the battle of the Somme, in a tank that was as much use as nowt.

I was giving Dh a history lesson as we went along, we got to Katherine Howard, and I said, oh they are related to the Dukes of Norfolk, and Edward Longshanks (Hammer of the Scots as he was known). DH was sitting there, saying "how do you know all this?"