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

[edam]

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 really enjoyed last night's programme. I got distracted by how aristos always have ruddy cheeks, why is that? Are they any more outdoorsy than the rest of us? I've spent a fair amount of time traipsing up and down mountains and I don't have livid cheeks like that.

Well, Pinsent himself famously fairly outdoorsy...

Proyaffle - you only get the ruddy cheeked effect if you slaughter defenseless creatures and laugh in a loud braying manner while enjoying your outdoor recreation.

As you say, edam, we all go back to Adam and Eve eventually if you believe all that - it's just a matter of knowing all the names in between that aren't helpfully written in the Bible.

I of course go back to Thor . (Yes, really - one of my Danish imperialist ancestors in Iceland married a Johanna Thorsdottir, so go back a generation...) Oh yes, and Moses (at least three generations, all Welsh, naturally).

Well, my great-great-grandmother was a rainbow... (or, more accurately but also more prosaically, a Rainbow)

Profyaffle - do you really want cheeks like that though?

I only go abck to a double agent who is at least partly responsible for us still having the Monarchy we do- does that make me responsible for all the related shite in the Express then, I ownder?

And of course Hallgerda is rigt- if there is God, tehn we all go abck to him. Obviosuly.

Dur.

I thought ruddy cheeks was to do with levels of port consumption, but that doesn't really fit with MP somehow - he'd be more of a real ale man.

Good Lord no, I don't actually want cheeks like that! Am liking Hassled's port theory, maybe MP has a secret habit?

I've got ruddy cheeks. Maybe I'm an eton boy. I'd liek that.

my aunty was telling me the other day how she called my dad 'robin redbreast' throughout his childhood. Ruddiest cheeks you've ever seen.

aristos and farm hands

Yeah, lost its way in the middle a bit.

The Great War stuff was great, God it never fails to move me that War and the sheer waste.

I think he was a bit embarrassed by his regal connections - he did say 'Oh stop it' at one point during that mad family tree of the Divine Right of Kings.

Its all bollox anyway that bloody Divine Right carry on.