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"If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there it would've been like Woodstock. I was at Woodstock. I fed off a flower person and I spent six hours watching my hand move." - Spike

Since we're sharing, Scots-Irish-German-Welsh-English-Polish-Iroquois.
(although I only found out about the Iroquois part last week, - mom found an error in her genealogy - it's possibly on more than one branch of the family tree, and already likely higher in the rankings than either Polish or Welsh.)

If certain terms such as the dreaded "n-word" are so offensive... pray explain the reasoning behind people of that particular group using that term to describe themselves in their music and popular entertainment?

Once again, words are not 'bad,' in and of themselves, any more than books , movies, or any kind of information is 'bad.'

'Bad'-ness is in intent, and action. It always has been, and it always will be.

I mean, I could call you a psychofragulated tubloidial framitzammer, too. Does that mean anything to you?

Words actually, in and of themselves, MEAN very little. Take the overuse of the word "brother." Brother has a very definite meaning: male sibling. But Freemasons, people with "brethren"-ish churches, and People-Of-Mid-Northern-To-Mid-Lower-Latitude-African-And-Sometimes-Elsewhere-Origin (just striving for accuracy here) call each other 'brother' on a daily basis all the time in the USA, even if their tribes of origin are busy slaughtering each other in the ancestral homeland.

Offense can even be taken at innocuous words, perhaps moved by innuendo (or the recipient's inherent insecurities), You mother-loving pie-eater.

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"Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ty Kwan Leap. Approach me, that you might see." -- The Master

Exxon, polluting the world for your children, so you don't have to.

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Stupid bastards and religious freaks,
so safe in their castle keeps...

Famous relations?

A cousin of mine was one of the primary constituents of the Bos�-Einstein condensate that gluons were supposed to have been seen in last year.

I heard somewhere that I'd a pure element in me from like centuries ago that could have been chlorine!!
(reminds of the stories my father still tells us from time to time, about my mother being about as inert as neon when they first met - arf!)

Apparently my grandfather was a colleague of many of Winston Churchill's farts.

->>back to the bashing<<-

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Remember December '59
The howling wind and the driving rain,
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat, Mona was her name.