If only, but I'm so Danelaw it hurts..

I have some aristocratic ancestry that I occasionally enjoy bragging about. But as cool as it is having three family castles in Germany (that one is in ruins, sadly), Italy and Slovakia, I'm also distantly related to George W Bush. That part is a whole lot less cool. Also, the money seems to have disappeared from…

Interesting since I read that, based on Richard III's DNA, that the paternal line was broken somewhere, and that the wrong rooster might have slipped into the hen house at some point.

My garbage Irish heritage has gotten me nowhere! NOWHERE!

Be like, "Oh, duh, your Habsburg jaw made that obvious."

BRITS AND ENGLISH ARENT THE SAME.

I honestly don't know how you keep from looking him dead in the eye and saying WELL LA TI FUCKING DA, PAL

So that last line is so achingly accurate, but they all wear it like a badge of pride - I have a coursemate (private all boys school type) who always talks about the fact his family is descended from a Norman lord who came over with William I.

I am thinking she is just putting the coke on a mirror or something, and the Kennedys are all "no silver tray? the horror!"

Indeed. I was actually impartial about Reese, and now I have to say I like her a tad bit more.

When your coke party offends a Kennedy, you are clearly not putting enough effort into it.

Shaun Penn "roaming the world and living day to day" means "drinking all the time and staggering to and fro".

Yeah, the Kennedys are no stranger to coke parties.

Cordelia and Daphne. One from Shakespeare, the other from Greek mythology. I also may have watched a lot of Buffy and Angel while pregnant with Cordelia.

I'm constantly relieved to see neither of my girls names on any of these lists. I've also never met any other people with their names, young or old. I would also like to say they're not weird names, just old.

I think I teach this kid violin lessons.

I thought that sweater looked familiar so I clicked through the link - pretty sure I have that pattern book at home. Or, at the very least, several of those patterns in other books. Much like Dumbledore, I love knitting patterns. Sometimes, I even knit stuff.

I don't understand the appeal of Harry Styles AT ALL. But maybe it's just me. I also never got the appeal of Mick Jagger or Steven Tyler, and I don't just mean decrepit Jagger, I mean 1960s Jagger. They all have a similar icky not hot factor.

This ridiculous internet narcissism that has people thinking it is appropriate or good to demand that certain celebrities date while others are a terrible match is a sickness. It reinforces all the crazy "publicist setting up the dates" bullshit that makes celebrity a toxic environment.