Too Much Knowledge Disruptive To My Stereotypes

[Nick the DSM]

What did the Romans ever do for us?

*cough* republic *cough*

Lets see aqua ducts, public water and bathhouses, forums, disciplined armies, etc

[Sammac]

My dad used to say he was a quarterhorse, Scots, French, Irish and English.

[Smayniac]

apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health?

also disregarding the whole lead plumbing thing.

[macwilkin]

What did the Romans ever do for us?

Didn't Kirk Douglas say that in Spartacus?

sorry...couldn't resist...mea culpa...

T.

[Cherub]

now the answer I would love to give, instead of the one that was set up.

Funny metal Kilts?

Ahh the evoloution of the kilt by the Tartan Terrors, I love that skit.

[cessna152towser]

If we can get back far enough we are probably all mutts. All four of my grandparents were born in Scotland but one of them was born into an Irish family who had arrived in Scotland the year before he was born. The paternal line of the Irish family was said to go back to a supporter of Prince William, who had been given ground in Lurgan after the Williamite campaign in 1690, on which he had built a cottage which remained in the family for almost three hundred years. With a surname like Mewhort the assumption had always been that he had been a Dutch follower of William of Orange. My wife has McWhirter ancestry from Ayrshire, Scotland and my own researches into that name suggest there were McWhirts or McWhirters who sailed from Girvan in Ayrshire to Northern Ireland about 1650, where they changed their name to Mawhirt, Mewhort or Mewhorter to blend in with the natives. So perhaps I am more Scottish than I thought!

[muirkirkca]

I saw in a newspaper article that nethanderals are purported to be fair skinned with reddish hair and may have interbred with homo-sapiens. If you have a strongly slopping forehead with heavy brow ridges then there may be an ancestral connection.

[gilmore]

... One thing to keep in mind is that there are very few Scots that came from the original Picts. Even the the Irish Scots who are the ones that gave Scotland its name were mixed with Scandanavian ancestors...

Not exactly true. The majority---perhaps an overwhelming majority--- of those of us of Scots ancestry (that is, people who lived for more than a couple of generations in Scotland)descend from Picts, as well as Dalraida/Argyl Scots, Lowland Scots/Northumbrian/Anglo-Saxons, Galloway Brtions, etc

[GDub]

My Dad's family were Icelanders (by way of Denmark 500 years earlier). He was actually born there, but they moved to Canada when he was two. That end I've got covered. My Mom's Da was Irish--his parents were the real deal. My Mom's Mom was some percent of English decent, though she was a mutt compared to the rest. So I claim Viking/Irish as my blood line--ie, I'm my own master and slave --because the Vikings took the Irish as slaves.

[O'Callaghan]

What did the Romans ever do for us?

Well, they built the aqueducts, LOL!