Living the stereotype
Apr. 19th, 2009 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenApparently I do have a convict ancestor, after all, on my mother's side... and he's a Shameful Secret!
Not because he was a convict, but because he was a Protestant... and English, at that. O NOES!
(Transported for stealing bread, which is about as cliche as it gets.)
Not because he was a convict, but because he was a Protestant... and English, at that. O NOES!
(Transported for stealing bread, which is about as cliche as it gets.)
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Date: 2009-04-19 01:02 pm (UTC)Years ago, my mother told us that when she was a girl there was an old, old man in the family - a relative of some kind - who was a nice old man but it was a quiet scandal because he was a *Protestant* and not a _Catholic_.
Oh noes!
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Sail To You
Date: 2009-04-19 01:21 pm (UTC)Around that time
'Cause they had a few problems with
The rising crime
Wouldn't lose your head
If you stole a loaf of bread
You got a one way ticket
To Australia instead
Men At Work • Sail To You • Two Hearts
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Date: 2009-04-19 01:28 pm (UTC)"If you look far enough back in anybody's family tree, you'll always find a rope",
and
"No matter how tall your granddaddy was, you have to do your own growing".
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Date: 2009-04-19 07:06 pm (UTC)