I just completed 3000 posts-ask me anything.

[xmas74]

[Catch22Dem]

1. Ok, what does xmas74 refer to?

[xmas74]

3. My birthday.

I was due on Christmas of 1974 but I arrived two days late and threw off the golf trip that my mom's ob had scheduled.
Nothing religious about it-just my very first act of rebellion.

[HereSince1628]

2. How does it feel to be 50,000 posts behind the top 10?

THe number of posts some DU'ers have is astounding.

[xmas74]

4. I've only been here a month.

But that is rather astounding.

[4_Legs_Good]

8. Holy cripes!

I've been here for over 2 years and I barely have 3000 posts!

Good work!!!

david

[xmas74]

10. I work all night.

When the traffic dies down, I can sometimes get online. Some nights it's really early and I have 8-10 hours of nothing better to do at work.
I am on other forums here too, though.

[Arkana]

16. Holy Shi'ite

It only took you a month to get 3K? It took me a year! :wow:

[xmas74]

18. Thank you.

[xmas74]

5. HereSince1628-is that when your family settled in the states?

Just wondering.

[HereSince1628]

6. Well there weren't states then, but yes.

Early yeomen to Lynne Massachusetts, and then on to be among the founders of Southampton Long Island.

[xmas74]

7. Mine originally settled in the Mass. Bay Colonies.

I believe it was around the early 1630's-I need to look it up again sometime.

[HereSince1628]

9. There are lots of good websites for Mass Bay Colony geneology

and history...too many to get into quickly, but they are easy to find by googling.

I still can't figure out to whom my American founder was married.
You'd think someone would have mentioned the death of dear old mom.

[xmas74]

12. I did find mine.

I know her first name was Anne and she was from England. I used to know exactly where but it has slipped my mind at the moment.
My family was splintered in two during the Revolutionary War. The side that sided w/ the British kept their last name while my side changed one letter of the name to be different. I always thought that was interesting.

[HereSince1628]

17. The tradition in my family is her name was Damaris

There is, or was, some sort of road or street in Southampton that was supposedly in memory of her.

That group of may family spread EVERYWHERE. There are Sayres blood well in every nook and cranny in the US. I am aware that there was a Sayre who was a prisoner in Andersonville Prison during the civil was and a Sayre who was a guard.

You would of course recognize cousin Zelda as F.S. Fitzgerald's crazy wife...

the crazy gene seems to be a good family marker. :silly:

[xmas74]

19. I'm a Culver/Colver/Colber/Collver

I'm not telling which one is me.

[Wapsie B]

11. Congratulations!

But why do you hate America? :evilgrin:

[xmas74]

14. My answer to that is that my family

came here in the 1600's and has married into various Native tribes over the years. They fought in the war for Indepedence on the "right" side. So I like to believe that I love the United States more than the 'Murikans!

[Wapsie B]

20. Wow,

you can trace your family back that far? Cool.

[xmas74]

22. I think that if I have been here that long

I have every right to complain about the country. It's proof that my ancestors complained and took action-it must be in the blood.

[Wapsie B]

26. You are so correct.

We've all got to have this fighting spirit to take our country back.

[xmas74]

28. And I'm proud to have been bred from fighters.

[Wapsie B]

30. You do have a proud heritage.

Your family and those like yours made this country. I'm impressed. Seriously.

I've got to get back to work for a little bit. But if you want, PM me.

[xmas74]

32. Sure.

I am back and forth w/ my daughter right now, but I'll try to drop a line later.

[RedCloud]

13. What do you get when you spell straw backwards?

[xmas74]

15. Warts.

[Huckebein the Raven]

21. How does it feel ?

I'm not that far from 3000 posts myself.

:)

[xmas74]

23. I never thought that I would get here so fast.

The Lounge is addictive.

[Huckebein the Raven]

27. I agree. Some many interesting people to talk to

and flirt with. ;)

Didn't you've only been here about a month. Wow. That's a lot of posts.

[xmas74]

29. I looked it up.

About a month in the Lounge, six weeks since I started posting on DU ( I lurked for about 6 months).

[Huckebein the Raven]

35. I lurked for about a year

before joining DU mostly reading the LBN threads.

[xmas74]

40. I started on GD and GDP

and went to MO forums, then came here one night. The Lounge used to scare me more than anything else but everyone has made me feel at home.

[Huckebein the Raven]

44. Well that's good.

I think the Lounge is where I started posting

[xmas74]

45. I got slammed in GD.

It turns out it was by a freeper. I was afraid at first that there was something wrong w/ me and that I wasn't a lib, though I was raised to be.

[Huckebein the Raven]

47. GD can be tough sometimes.

You have to be thick-skinned with regards to GD,imho.

:)

[xmas74]

48. Yes you do

[Longgrain]

24. When are you going to mix me up an xmas74?

I getting thirsty...:9

[xmas74]

25. When are you coming to KC?

Actually, I am being a very good girl today. I was discussing family history just a few minutes ago. Did you know that my ancestors settled Mass. in the 1600's?

[Longgrain]

37. I wasn't planning it or anything...

I do travel a lot in the summer tho...

As for my family history, I'm 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Lithuanian, 1/4 French-Canadian, and 1/4 Polish...

There's also some Swedish and Jewish blood in me as well...

[xmas74]

38. Just a joke about KC.

If I didn't have child custody issues, I would have left years ago.

Father's side: English, Irish, Crow, Russian.
Mother's side: Irish, French, German (ffm172 actually helped me find some family there!), Memominee, Potawatamie, and lots of Scottish. Her greatgrandfather was in Vaudeville and used to tour the country when he first settled here. Supposedly Jewish somewhere too-but I haven't found it yet.

[Longgrain]

39. I knew you were joking...

But since some of us were seriously talking of meeting up in Boston, you never know...

[xmas74]

42. I invited someone to KC on GD the other day

they were badmouthing the red staters and telling us that it was our fault that we lost the election. I told them to come here and pull off their airs to the common people. The poster refused and the thread got locked.

Of course, if you ever want the world's best BBQ brisket and want to see the stomping grounds of the lovable "Give 'em hell, Harry"...

[Blue_In_AK]

31. DAMN, Xmas, you're leaving me in the dust...

[xmas74]

33. If you worked all night

you would be on line too, especially at slow times. So I read that you like true crime too!

[Blue_In_AK]

36. You bet. Love it.

When in doubt, COURT TV. I'm reading Bitter Almonds right now about a Washington State cyanide aspirin tampering case. Good stuff.

[xmas74]

41. I remember that case!

I am really into the BTK case since it is nearby. And I was originally called for jury duty on John Robinson but was dismissed d/t conflict of interest (my job would have let me but no one wants someone who works w/ law enforcement on a jury). Never stood a chance for the jury.

[Blue_In_AK]

46. Are you a cop or support staff?

I was a corrections officer/counselor once for a year, but I had "issues" with the administration, so decided to go back to paralegaling. Now I work at home transcribing criminal trials for appeals and grand juries under a contract with the state, so I've got the true crime stories in my ear all day long....a multiple rapist right now.

[xmas74]

49. Dispatch in a very tight knit department.

I sometimes dispatch SERT (similar to SWAT). They show me all of the pics to try to gross me out.

[steve2470]

34. where's your photo ?

:-)

[xmas74]

43. It was on one of the photo threads a few weeks ago.

I don't know now-my newer ones are of me and my daughter and they always look awful.

[Amfortas]

50. Did you ever breast feed in public ?

[xmas74]

51. Once

but no one actually knew that I was doing it.