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   Message 128,138 of 130,039   
   Doug Laidlaw to Chris Dickinson   
   Re: Royal family: descent from Adam and    
   25 Apr 18 20:49:12   
   
   From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au   
      
   On 25/04/18 04:47, Chris Dickinson wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:52:00 UTC+1, Joe Roberts  wrote:   
   >> "Graeme Wall" wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> (...)   
   >>   
   >>> The interesting part is there doesn't appear to be a single   
   >>> common male ancestor.  And they are still trying to   
   >>> sort out how Neanderthals, Denisovans and a few other variants on homo   
   >>> erectus fit into the mix.   
   >>   
   >> Let's go with Pooh-Bah:   
   >>   
   >>    " I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of   
   >> pre-Adamite ancestral descent.  You will understand this when I tell you   
   >> that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic   
   >> globule.  Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable.  I can't   
   >> help it.  I was born sneering."   
   >>   
   >> ... from 'The Mikado'  (W.S. Gilbert, 1885)   
   >>   
   >> - - -   
   >>   
   >> Joe   
   >   
   >   
   > Isn't that what Ursula Andress dissolved into in 'She' back in 1965?   
   >   
   > Chris   
   >   
   I agree with Pooh-Bah.   
      
   But in theory, we can _all_ trace our ancestry back to Adam.  We are all   
   cousins of Hitler -- and Donald Trump.  Good news for anarchists. I am   
   not sure which of the two relationships I would disown first.  Hitler   
   had some good points.   
      
   Doug.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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