From: anne@privacy.net
Anne Chambers wrote:
> Charles Ellson wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:49:12 +1000, Doug Laidlaw
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Although he was allegedly deficient in others.
>> whistles Colonel Bogey
>>
> LOL
>
Hit send too soon...I thought the 'rude' version was ever so naughty when I
was a young teen ! How times have
changed... (said every old person ever)
--
Anne Chambers
South Australia
anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com
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