h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, they do... and the people being hit by them usually grunt annoyingly.

Ag, it sounds like your singing library customer has a stammering problem.

In der year of OUR LORD NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIX,
We set sail from der COAL QUAY o' Cork,
We'd a summink or other and a CARGO O' BRICKS,
FOR THE GRAND CITY HALL IN NEW YORK!

We'd a WONDERFUL CRAFT,
She was RIGGED fore and AFT
With a thingy and an oojit and stuff
AND WE CALLED HER THE OIRISH ROOOVER!

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The whole o' the crew,
Was reduced down to two,
Twas JUST ME and the captain's owd dog.

The SHIP hit a ROCK,
OH LORD! WHAT A SHOCK,
And nearly turned right OOVER!
It SPAN NOINE TIMES round,
And the owd dog was drowned,

OI'M THE LAST O' THE OIRISH ROOVER!!!


Well, a promise is a promise.

AWESOME!!! Thank you very much! I liked that much better than Violet's song. Do you play a tin whistle or a stringed instrument too?????

I play piano. Very slowly whilst looking at the music. I could do a bad Riverdance as well.

Sounds like you are a person with about the same talent that I have. My piano has been unused so long, it has a coating of dust on it. My knees have slowed my River Dancing down quite a lot too it's more like "River Toe Tapping".

Sure and that was a fine song Bagpuss. I'd offer you a wee dram, but you're abstaining. How about I bring you a nice cuppa tea and a fat rascal?

Ah, that'd be grand. But what in the holy name of St. Pat is a fat rascal?

Can I ask you two fine ladies: Do ye have any Irish in you?

Fat Rascals are tea cakes. Amy bought me one in Betty's.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/going_out/food/fat_rascals.shtml

I don't think we have any Irish blood. If we do, it is very little and from a really long time ago. Lady C's husband may be part Irish. One grandmother used to say she was part Scots-Irish, which I think means Scots who fled to Ireland.

I am more English than anything....a quarter German and an eighth Cherokee.

I'm a quarter Irish. Well, sort of. My dad's parents each had one set of Irish parents, making them half Irish.

I find the idea of Cherokee ancestory very . I think I have a bit of a romantic idea about the lone hunter travelling the plains and stuff.

So.........your dad is half Irish, a quarter from each of his parents. Yep, that would make you a quarter Irish.

Lots of people in the Ozarks have Cherokee blood. The Cherokee originally lived in North Carolina and Georgia. Then they were forced off of their lands and sent to Oklahoma. Have you ever heard of the Trail of Tears? http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

My Cherokee blood comes from my dad's mother.

Wait, I got mixed up somewhere. You have to go back to my great-great-grandparents to find anyone who was born in Ireland. Or at least on my grandpa's side you do. I'm less sure about grandma's (and she has a more common name, so it's difficult to check census records).

I'm sure I've heard the phrase "trail of tears", but most of that was new to me. The details were new I mean; I was certainly aware of some of the appalling treatment of the natives by the emergent USA (and indeed by the British settlers before they declared independence).

Great Grandpa K's mother was born in Ireland, according to the 1880 Census. His father was born in England, as was he. I have two grandmothers who claimed to be Scots/Irish. I don't have the German/Cherokee blood in me as Hyp and I have different blood fathers. We both had the same Dad, but he adopted me. I probably have more Scots/Irish in me than she does. I want to be Cherokee too.

You mean the Varner line is from Ireland? Is Varner an Irish name? No, wait. It would be Sophie you're talking about. She wasn't a Varner. Elizabeth was the Varner. I'm off a generation.

Right, Sophie it is. We don't have a last name for her, unfortunately. The 1880 Census shows Mary V.'s parents both being born in Tennessee. As far as I know they haven't been traced back any further. At least I haven't found anything to indicate that in L's notes. I got a link to Ancestry UK. Maybe I should join for awhile. What do you think?

Since we have a street adress in London for Sophie, we may be able to find a last name. We're stuck until then.

How expensive is it? I could split the cost with you if it's too high.

Don't know how much it costs, yet. The price was listed in pounds. Since I am knowledge deprived when it comes to pounds....

The exchange rate changes, but it is staying at around $1.80 for 1 pound.