Droid Engineer Archive

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Oreet wrote:

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Huntseeker wrote:

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Oreet wrote:

They were having a Celtic Fling and Highland Games. Had a great time there. Lots of good music, Great beer, and great games. Saw people doing things like the Hammer Throw, and Caber Toss.

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Thats Scottish not english

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I know. The Celtic Fling was Scottish/Irish stuff. And i had always thought i was half Irish, but i found up, much to my own dismay, that I am actually half british, not Irish

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Want a shovel to help dig that hole faster...???

Well, if we're doing Roots. On my mum's side, I'm descended from people who, in the 14th century, had a tower house about 5 miles south from where I now live but, depending on which generation you want to dip into are/were Scots/Irish/English/Welsh/Hungarian/Slavic/French oh, and American (we went over, tried it, didn't like the sun, came back ) and, on my Dad's side, am decended from a family that just 'appears' out of the woodwork about 5 miles north of here around 200 years ago but were probably Mediteranean Jewish leatherworkers, already.

Which basically means that y'all are probably my cousins in some degree

Oh, and being nominally Scottish, I don't tan, I'm naturally light blue.

(Owen: Peggy Bundy of "Married With Children", her maiden name is W*nker) (Frell, the filter caught on. Ah well, here's to all Spanish John Keirs!)

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Lorrowyn wrote:

Guinness...one beer to rule them all.

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Truer words have never been spoken...

/buys a round of Guinness for the room.

No Guinness at the Celtic Fling though. The PA Ren. Faire has it's own Micro-Brewery, The Swashbuckler Brewing Company. So the only beer they serve there is from that company. They did have a wonderful Stout there. I forget the name, but was a very Pirate'y name. It had a hint of Coffee and Chocolate in it, and was quite good.

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Oreet wrote:

Well, I'd like to make an official apology to everyone from England whom I may have made fun of in the past, this includes you Owen.

I took my girlfriend to the PA Renassiance Faire on Saturday. They were having a Celtic Fling and Highland Games. Had a great time there. Lots of good music, Great beer, and great games. Saw people doing things like the Hammer Throw, and Caber Toss.

Well, there is this stand there that you can have your Surname looked up on a computer program, and it will display your family's coat of arms, and a history of your family.

I had gone through most of my life thinking i was half German, and half Irish.

Well, I was wrong. The Sites family (Sites being my last name) were a bunch of Tea-drinking, Krumpet-eating Wankers from England. Yes, there I said it, I am half German half British.

But if you brits think i will abandon my Irish-ness, you're wrong. You'll have to pry my pint of Guinness from my cold dead hands.

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No way! I was there too. I was visiting 6 if my guildmates who live in Harrisburg, PA. Tartan Terrors rock btw! Woo!

hershey eh? no sh*t i live in camp hill.

Wow, no idea there were many players in my area. I've lived in the central PA region all my life (24 years)

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Oreet wrote:
Wow, no idea there were many players in my area. I've lived in the central PA region all my life (24 years)

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Well, I'm from FL. Originally from KY. My fiancee and I made it a weekend and flew up to visit 6 people from my Guild and had a great time. Went to Hershey Park Friday and Celtic Fling Saturday. Loved eating at Klingers. Great food. Also, Neato Burrito. Yummm...

Wish I would have seen the booth you were talking bout for looking up your family history. Tho, I think I would have been a shoe in for being Irish since my last name is McElroy. Also, my family already traced my line back to 11 generations of us, what ship name we came over on and what year(1642 I think). Would have been nice to see the coat of arms tho.

ha! neato burrito! i used to work there. buffalo burritos for teh win...mmmmmm

Since we are on the topic of family history and such...German/Italian with some Polish thrown in. Northern Italy, so I have the blond hair blue eyes and yes, pale skin. But, on the up side, I can tan fairly well with some SPF 15 and a day at the beach playing volleyball. Just gotta make sure I get it aaaaalll even.


It is really spiffy, cus we have a town and a castle named after us in Germany. My dad discovered that when he did our geneology. Heck, I even have cousins who live over there. (I forget the name of the city, rather large trades city though, the name escapes me. And no, not Berlin, just to stop the Nazi jokes there. Although Hitler did have some good ideas imo.)

So, that is where I come from, and it kind of explains my quick, angry responses sometimes as well.

the blonde hair and blue eyes from norht italy would be an indicator of the celts who settled the Po valley, way back round bouts 250 BC. so...not purely Italic, but Celtic by way of italy. ...o.O im a nerd.