« Editorial Of The Day |
Main
|
The Religion of Peaceful Machete Wielding Lunatics »
August 13, 2006
All You Babies Are Wearin' Gold Plated Royal Diapahs
Most of the current human population descended from kings and nobility, geneaologists claim.
Most.
I know there are exceptions, and I further know that I'm one of them.
My family's closest brush with the nobility came around the sixth century, when a great-great-etc.-grandmother serving as a toilet-bucket wench got a Nasty Adolf from King Alfred. My family's crest depicts a lion rampant, and one of my ancestors right behind the beast, cleaning up poop.