Thanks! I I have heard of it, but never saw it. Mixing what I know of that with bunnies… I can guess it would be a good meme.
Be grateful you don’t get it, Randy. I’m going to have nightmares from this one.
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Most painful hernia ever!
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I don’t have any credible published sources to attest to my claim that Sedilia smithfieldensis (and a few hundred other species) is present in the Waccamaw Formation. I do have raw, unpublished (hopefully I will fix that before too long) data, though.
When the top Google hit for a binomen is a review PDF copy of some of my shell pictures (and the remainder are Google Books copies of references that I already have), I known that that isn’t going to be effective for getting more information (as an example, “cyclostremella magnoliana” - Google Search)
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Timothy, YOU top the charts, man!
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Happy Easter! I took this picture of two ladies getting ready for the Easter Parade in 2013, at Rockefeller Center. When you go to church on 5th Avenue you’re always running into in one parade or another! The Easter Parade isn’t an official parade like the Puerto Rican Day Parade or the Pride Parade. The Easter Parade started many years ago when ladies from 5th Avenue churches, dressed in their Easter finery and bonnets, would promenade down the street after services. People would come to watch them. Over the years it became ridiculously fun–all kinds of people would show up, most wearing bonnets, the bigger and more outlandish the better! There are little kids in bonnets and even dogs in bonnets. One year there were a couple of young men wearing bonnets! Sometimes there is dancing. It’s fun to step out of a high Anglican service into this mayhem!!
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As long as the charts are for very specific, obscure categories that have less than 20 hits, yes.
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Which is exactly the same point made by this cartoon:
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I guess then that I am studying my ~~2,000,000,000th cousin’s remains.
xkcd: Family Reunion
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A lot of genealogists use the library where I work. I don’t think anyone has gotten back this far with the documentation required for proof. Vital records weren’t required in MI until 1867.
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Why did one of our local hospitals pay big bucks to a signage consulting firm to change “Waiting Room” signs to “Gathering Area” ones?! 
I was in the radiology ‘gathering area’ by myself a while back… no, wait – they had a big fish tank and maybe a potted tree (but I don’t know if it was artificial or not). So you are correct. XD
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…and there must have been shells in it too!
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I can probably manage some “I know that I am their [25th up to 50th] cousin though this route, but don’t know if there are any closer connections.”
Given that Elizabeth II’s great-grandchildren are my (with a bunch of higher-order options) 24th cousins once removed, I have plenty of known very distant connections to people.
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The fish are probably about 250,000,000th cousins (~100,000,000 times removed); the shells may be as low as 500,000,000, but may be as high as 2,000,000,000 (about 150,000,000 times removed).
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This will require documentation beyond the scope of the resources available to me. 
If you can establish it, though the DAR will be exceedingly impressed. 
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If Jesus was born triune would that have made his birth place a “menagerie a’ trios”?
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And being with distant relatives’ remains we wouldn’t exactly call a family reunion. 
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I do not personally have documentation for about generations 8-18 back, but others have done that part of the research. Earlier stuff is easy enough, once I hit English noble families. Through them, I can claim descent from a bunch of really awful people, like William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber (who definitely killed several Welsh princes at a New Year’s Feast, and is a prime suspect for who actually executed Arthur). Helpfully, to boost further the “I’m descended from a bunch of people who hated each other” factor, I’m also descended from Llywellyn ap Iorwerth ap Owain Fawr (who executed William’s homonymous grandson, and would have liked to execute William as revenge for the Abergavenny Massacre), and King John of England (who arrested and executed William’s wife and son, which was one of the main triggers for Magna Carta requiring trial by peers before arrest). The three of them engaged in extended multi-way border wars.
Based on such, it appears that I can claim to technically be part (about 0.000000001% at most) Italian, Russian, Bulgar, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. Also, if the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is considered to give accurate data before c. 550 AD (not that anyone really thinks so), Thor is my 63-greats grand half-uncle, through a demigod son of Woden (who is the 7-greats grandson of Beowulf, who is the 7-greats grandson of Japheth, based on the same document).
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